sydney quilt show 2018

[tielan]

Once again, both my quilts got accepted into the Sydney Quilt Show. (Honestly, I'm not sure why, they're not really that fantastic.)

Neither of them are finished. Not even the tops are complete!

So the Plain Jane Passacaglia is considerably further along now than it was in this picture, but I've still got the last side to sew down tomorrow night, the remaining borders to put on (Saturday), and then the quilting and binding to do (God only knows when).



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Break Free or Build Upon is going to need at least a few more blocks to complete, and then the issue of quilting comes in.



And I just realised that when quilting that, I also need to follow the traditional-to-modern pattern of quilting and...why do I do this to myself? Seriously?


Anyway, it seems that May's unofficial title for me is: "how do you quilt like you're running out of time?"

Comments

[kore]

THESE. ARE. GORGEOUS. Wow.

[tielan]

Thanks!

(Looking at it now, I think the green one needs more variation in the last diagonal row. Which, ugh, more piecing.)

[jenab]

They both look lovely.

[tielan]

Thanks!

I think I'm a little jaded seeing the 'best in show' of the last couple of years - and a friend of mine regularly gets ribbons at shows, so...I may be a little biased.

[beatrice_otter]

Quilt like the wind!

[tielan]

Yeah, that'll be my motto for the next couple of weeks. Exhausting.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Congratulations! They look great so far. :D

[tielan]

Thanks. I'm just stressing about getting both finished...

[raine]

Congrats! Both patterns look amazing.

[tielan]

I don't actually think it's that difficult to get in. I've put two entries in every year, and they always accept both of them! If I got it into one of the big American conventions like the Houston Quilt Show, or Quiltcon - or even the Australian Modern Quilt Show then yeah, that might be bigger. :)

But thanks. :)

[monanotlisa]

Woot, woot! I love your quilts; they're modern and artistic and everything I would look for in a quilt.

[tielan]

I am rapidly overflowing with quilts, so I'll send you a few pics of ones that I'm planning to give away if you like?

[monanotlisa]

Yes! :)

Sent from my iPhone

[havocthecat]

Why do you do this to yourself? Because you're good at it.

I just want to know how you have all this free time?

[tielan]

I...don't? I squeeze it in in little pieces of time between big pieces of time? (So, I did a lot of the Passacaglia on the train commute, tucking a segment in a bag and sewing it then. If I'd done it regularly on the commute since 2014, then it would have been finished two years ago. But I dropped the ball for a while and didn't pick it up again.)

[eggsbenedict]

I always love your quilt pics! Good luck with the quilting like the wind bit /o/

(Autocorrect changed "quilting" to "writing", how does it know...?)

[tielan]

Gonna need a lot of wind for this one... *sigh* And have to clean out the room somewhat. And switch over my winter/summer wardrobes. And plant out seedlings (including garlic).

SO MUCH TO DO.

[bluemeridian]

The color and inherent movement of the pattern in the first one is really wonderful. The best kind of mesmerizing.

I can see what you meant in another comment about the second needing some more variation in the final diagonal row, but it's a fascinating WiP. I keep turning over in my head something about balance and how it seems quite bold but I can't quite nail the thoughts down.

I have looked at far more quilts than I've hand any hand in, but that sounds like a challenging schedule considering you're working with time around the edges. And now I realize you said that at least the Passacaglia is further along than in the photo, but still. Sympathies and good luck? :)

[umadoshi]

You do such gorgeous work. *^^*