Meeting: 22 July 2023 at 09:00 at Lyttelton Methodist church

Good day ladies

And whoosh, just like that it is time again for our next meeting, and one to look forward to we may add!

We shall have a very interesting guest speaker, Elsa Toerien, whom some of you may know. She is a retired professor in Clothing and Textiles and also an avid quilter, so do not miss this Saturday's meeting!

We are also due to receive another block for our mystery quilt for the year from Danèl - your quilts should be taking nice shape by now - very few unknown blocks left :-)

Besides that we think of displaying all the baby quilts we have received so far for our charity project, so we can take stock and maybe just inspire those who just need that one little bit of convincing to finish theirs. Claire will be ready again with a very easy block design for a baby quilt in case you are still undecided about that.

So, make sure you come along, dress warmly and bring a friend!

See you on Saturday, quilt regards

Meeting 27 June 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mystery Quilt - Block 4

 Mystery block 4 uses paper foundation piecing

The shattered star pattern is sewn in 4 quarters and then sewn together. With the joint seams away from the center, and no seams matching, it comes together easily and quickly. 

Download the Pattern Plate

Your quilt should look like this after completing the block:

Meeting 22 April 2023

 

Mystery Quilt - Block 3: Borders

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 This border will give your project some perspective. 

Your project should look like this when you finished the border blocks. 

This month's block has two options: the one a pointy Dresden Plate, and the other with rounded petals. By using a quarter or half a plate, the designs form a great border. 

The blocks are placed on half a 8 inch square or in the case of the corners, a quarter square triangle. 

• Step one will be to cut 4 squares, 8 7/8" or (9 inch for safety). 
• Draw a line diagonally on every block
• Sew a "stay stitch" 1/4" on both sides of the diagonal line to control the bias edge 
• Motif:
• Make a choice of template: pointed or rounded or a combination of the two.
• Use the pattern to cut the plate petals.

• For the pointed petals, fold the petals in the length. and sew a 1/4" seam across the point,
• trim the corner and turn the motif right side out, 
• Pair the motifs and sew one side seam.
• Press the seams, clock wise.
• Pair two sections and sew the seam. 
• Repeat to complete the motif. 
• Place the motif on the background fabric,
• Applique in place. Needle turn the rounded petals in place. 

Download the pattern plate

If, you find it difficult to line up or join neatly, you can appliqué a half circle or quarter circle in place to cover it. 

Centurion Quilters Meeting on 22 April 2023

 

Ladies, Saturday is meeting day again!  

9am at the Methodist Church in Lyttleton.  R20 entry fee and please bring a friend...or 2!  

Danel will be giving us the next part of the Mystery Quilt, 

Kay has loads of great ideas using Half Square Triangles,

Claire will give us a few more ideas for the charity baby quilts and 

Rene is bringing a few of her quilts along to share with us.  

We'd love to see your completed blocks for the Mystery quilt and any other Show and Tell! 

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!

Scrap sizes: Bonny Hunters' scrap user guide as presented by Kay de Jongh

 Kay de Jongh reminded us of Bonny Hunters' ideas on how to utilize scraps.

The suggested sizes to cut your fabrics are:

• Any pieces bigger than 12", cut into strips in sizes  1 1/2", 2", 2 1/2" and 3 1/2"
• Any strips shorter, you can cut into squares of 1 1/2", 2", 2 1/2" and 3 1/2" or
• bricks of 2 x 3 1/2", 2 1/2 x 4 1/2", 3 1/2 x 6 1/2"
• Larger pieces of fabric can be cut into squares of 10 1/2". Join the squares to create backing fabric for your next quilt. 

Centurion Meeting 25 March 2023