Here is a log cabin quilt that I made before moving to New Zealand. I sold it this year to a B&B owner, I think. Couldn't quite get the whole quilt in the photo - even standing on the couch. It was my first red quilt and I love the rich, red colours. Its funny making quilts in Australia, because its so warm there, and there are not a lot of months of the year when a person would sleep under a quilt...
Here is my Rolling Star Quilt. I think this was my first quilt, and astonishingly, all the pieces fit together just fine. I think I made it when I was about 17? Just sold this too. My husband doesn;t really like quilts on the bed (he's a doona man). In my experience, New Zealand isn't really a good place for storing things that are not used, as they go musty. So I thought I'd rather sell it and have it being used than have it go mustier and mustier each year. It was sad to let the quilts go though!
I think this was the second quilt I made. I liked blue colours, so I used them again. I think I used up lots of scraps from the big Rolling Star quilt. That's my son and his favourite teddy on the quilt.
This is my square for the Quilt for Christchurch. The Breeze radio station is asking for squares, with a message for Christchurch on it, and then a quilting group is going to join them all together into one enormous quilt and it will be hung in Christchurch Council (I think). Red and black are the colours of the local rugby team. Everyone from our Monday night sewing group is doing one, and we´ll send them in together. The instructions of what squares they wanted were a bit vague, so I hope that what I´ve done is somewhere in the parameters. The message is a Māori proverb, which means:
