Quilt banners and other quilts

Remember my quilt banner from last month? Promised I would show you what it looked like hanging together with others made by club members for the show (mine is the purple one below)

In the end we had 65 hanging in a lovely wave of colour. You can click on the pictures to get a closer view...

Our club has a public show of quilts every 2 years where club members exhibit what they've made in that time.

Unfortunately the 3 quilts I've made have been given away....thought you might like to see them again :

Wedding Quilt - December 2011

Pukeko - March 2012

Butterfly Quilt - April 2012

There was one I made that was on display without my name -- we made a series of these some years back reminding the public not to touch the quilts :

The statue was an image transfer.
Got a few ideas lining up as contenders for my next quilting project. I'd really like to have this one ready for our next show...

Currently on my design wall

Fabric House challenge

The other challenge for our Celebration quilt show was to make a fabric house. This was my entry

Front view

Back view

I constructed it using Pelmet Vilene for the base to stabalise it, with a layer of batting and fabric on top. I just love NZ fabrics, and had lots of fun creating my 'kiwiana cottage'. Would love to have a holiday bach like this ;-)
Here are some shots of other houses in the fabric village display.

The black boxes were for the public to vote by gold coin for their favourite.

Liz won with her smurf house and also got third(detailed shots of the houses she made here)

The Gingerbread house (back view above) got second.
If you fancy making a house of your own, here's a couple of links ::
Debbi Crane's Little Pink House of Cards  
Chris Gray has been making beautiful stuffed and stitched houses.
Also, the theme for August at The Sketchbook Challenge blog has been shelter - so a few houses appearing there too.
More about the quilt show to come....

Quilt Challenge Revealed

At last I can show you my Club Quilt challenge entry because it's the first day of the quilt show.

Here's a couple of closer details and click on the pictures to see even closer

I was so happy with how this turned out, and I will be especially pleased when it comes home at the end of the weekend to hang in my entrance hall. I will share some of its construction in a later blogpost.
These are some of the other entries for this challenge

The First Time, Novice, and Intermediate Sections all only had 2 entries. Mine won first place for Intermediate.
There were more entries for the Advanced Category

Impressed by my fellow blogger Liz who produced 3 of the above challenges and gained the yellow merit ribbon.
And the Professional section is always great to see

2 of these beautiful quilts are the work of my talented friend and blogger Erilyn. Visit her blog to see details of her quilts - again with the yellow merit ribbon, and her cream one next to it has divine quilting.
If you're in our area, please come visit this weekend - lots of wonderful quilts on display and if you love to stitch there are places to purchase supplies too.

I'll post about the fabric house challenges and the banners at the end of the weekend. Off to see the All Blacks play Argentina in Wellington tomorrow night...keep everything crossed for us that the storms stay away.