Last day of the Springwood Quilt Show

It's hard to believe 2 days have already flown by and it's Sunday already! 

The Springwood Quilt Show is on again today from 10-4pm so you still have a chance to see all the beautiful quilts on display. 

Although the show is non-juried, we do award a Viewers Choice each day of the show.  It's great for visitors to be able to choose and favourite and write a message on the voting slip for the quilter. 

Friday's Viewers Choice award went to Kyeen Mc Pherson for her wonderful Fantasy quilt.

Kyeen is a renowned long arm quilter and this quilt certainly shows off her amazing talent.

 The quilt pattern is Pure Imagination by Sew Quirky. It's so fun and whimsical with floating elephants...

 ...and a rabbit flying a plane.

 Saturday's Viewers Choice award went to Ann Langley's beautiful Farmers Wife quilt.

Great choices of fabrics and colours and perfect piecing make this quilt a delight to look at.

I wonder which will be the viewers choice for today?  Come along and pick your favourite. The show opens at 10am until 4pm. Springwood High School, Faulconbridge. It's easy to follow the signs along the highway. 

Quick pics of the show

It's been a busy few days at the Springwood Quilt Show. 

Thursday was the set up day and everything ran smoothly and the plain school hall was soon transformed into a colourful and vibrant quilt show. 

My favourite photo of the day was this one with Marilyn peeking over the top of the quilts.

One of the best things about setting up a quilt show is getting to see the backs before they're hidden by other quilts. 

This is the back of an amazing Frida Kahlo quilt.

A mix of colourful blooms.

And then theres the details you notice as the quilts are unfolded.

Friday morning arrived and there were lines of early birds ready to see the show.

We had a busload of lovely ladies from the Illawarra Quilters.

Up on the stage we have Isobel Lancashire demonstrating hand quilting. She's at a table with Maureen Teager who is there representing Quilt NSW.

Just to make you laugh heres one of the signs to remind people not to touch the quilts. 

Come along to the show. It's on all weekend from 10-4pm at the Springwood High School, Faulconbridge.

It's Show Time!!!

The big day has finally arrived - The Springwood Community Quilt Show opens today!!!

Imagine a hall full of amazing quilts. Lots of shops selling tempting wares and a cafe with yummy treats. It's all that and more.

The show is  on for the next 3 days. Fri 28th -30th April. at the Springwood High School in Faulconbridge. It's easy to find. Just follow the signs on the highway. 

So come and visit the show, we'd love to see you. 

Shopping at the Show

I'm sure for a lot of us it wouldn't be a visit to a quilt show without a bit of shopping. In fact I know some people head straight for the traders tables before looking at the quilts! I can't say I blame them especially when the shopping is as good as it is at the Springwood Quilt Show.
There will be lots of wonderful pop-up shops covering all your sewing needs and things to tempt, from beautiful fabrics of all types sundries to vintage sewing ephemera and bric brac to handmade gifts.

Here's a little more about each of this years trader.

Bower Birds
Just like the name suggests this stall is one for those of you who like to collect gorgeous things. The wide range of goods will include - fabrics, vintage crockery, quilts, quilt stands, baskets, vintage tins, handmade goodies, rustic furniture, lots of the famous Sew Gorgeous pin cushions and much, much more.

Cherry Pie Designs
Carol's quilt designs are as sweet as her brand name. Her table will be full of hard to resist fabrics and patterns for her beautiful quilts.

Chop Chop Sew
Susana creates fun wool felt items that will brighten up your home or make perfect gifts. Plus lots of fun sewing related craft items.

Down Patchwork Lane
Gayle and Tamara are the mother and daughter team from Penrith. They sell a wide selection of fabrics, bundles, patterns and kits.

Hatched and Patched
Annie Downes stall will be full of fabulous fabrics plus patterns, books and kits for her lovely, distinctive designs.

Lilyvale Treasures with a Past
Colleen has an amazing array of vintage sewing haberdashery and other goodies - buttons, ribbons, cloth applique, sewing boxes, tablecloths, doilies - the list goes on and on. You're sure to find lots of special treasures on this stall.

Linen and Lace

Karen always has a wonderful range of needle craft projects to inspire you and everything you need for your stitcheries and embroidery.

Post Office Patchwork

Judy will have lots for you to choose from with a table full different ranges of fabric, patterns and quilting tools.

Sew Can I
Karen has lots of fun bright fabrics. This is the place to stock up on Tula Pink, Kaffe Fasset and other favourites.  She'll have all sorts of gorgeous sewing items sewing accessories.

Unique Treasures
You'll find treasures galore on this table, lots of bric brac, vintage and rare de-stash fabrics, retro kitchen ware and all sorts of unique lovelies.

So bring a shopping bag or two and fill them with wonderful souvenirs of a fun day out at the Springwood Community Quilt Show.

Oh So Sweet Pincushions!!!

Oh my Goodness!!! Just look at these gorgeous pin cushions! They are truly "Oh Sew Sweet"!!

They look like a field of flowers.

or delicious cupcakes

but they are actually a handy Sewing Companion with everything you need for your hand sewing - a pretty pincushion, a thread catcher on a sturdy wooden base that holds one or two reels of thread. 

The creation of the wonderful sewing companions is a joint family effort with Anne Harris Loren and Lynn using fabrics from decades past. Each pincushion is topped with a vintage button.  Mr Harris has made the wooden bases from recycled timber and Annes daughter Loren has done all the printing on the cards and bags in a vintage style that finishes them off perfectly.

Won't it be fun to choose you're favourite from all the different fun fabric combinations. They would great gifts for sewing friends, or pair them with some hexagon papers to entice new people to sewing. 

You'll be able to find these truly special Oh Sew Sweet Sewing Companions at the Springwood Community Quilt Show on the Bower Birds stall.  All the proceeds from the sale of these pincushions will be going to Father Chris O'Riley's "Youth off the Streets".

These are just one of the wonderful items you'll find for sale at the show. The next post will have a list of all the other traders that will be there for all your shopping needs, after all it's always nice to get a few souvenirs from a fun day out. 

Fabulous prizes!!

The Springwood Community Quilt Show is a bit different to a lot of other shows in that is non-juried. This allows people to enter without the pressure of having their quilts judged with close scrutiny. However there is a Viewer's Choice prize awarded each day of the show. Every visitor gets to nominate their favourite quilt. We also allow some space for people to write why they chose the quilt as their favourite. This becomes wonderful feedback for the quilter, it's always encouraging to hear positive comments about a quilt you've taken the time to share.

We are so lucky this year to have wonderful Viewer's Choice prizes sponsored by Material Obsession.

We'll bundle these up but I couldn't wait to take photos to share, so for now just scroll through and see all the great items. Books, Hexagon viewers, amazing fabric panels, super fun Kathy Doughty fabrics!!!

Thank you so much Kathy Doughty and Material Obsession. You are such great supporters of the quilting community.

We also have a Lucky Door Prize every year. This year we have a voucher for a night away at the Redleaf Resort in Blackheath. Imagine having wine and cheese on arrival, and then a lovely spa and enjoying a relaxing getaway in the mountains. Sounds like bliss to me!!

We also like to let our volunteers know we appreciate them by offering prizes. Every person that helps out over over the duration of the show has their name put into the draw for these great prizes.

A $50 voucher from the Granny Square in Katoomba

A beautiful set of 4 china mugs from Rick Rutherfords Gift Shop in Lawson

There'll be more prizes too including a surprise pack of sewing goodies from Leutenegger. 

bottles of wine and other fabulous things. 

It's always nice to have a quilt photo so here is one of the Viewers Choice quilts from last year.

Venice Rose and was pieced and quilted by Carolyn Stanton. The description reads " Inspired by a quilt called St Mark's Wall Hanging in last years show. Subtitles "Who's afraid of Colour". The designer of the quilt is Norah McMeeking, Bella Bella Quilts.