Annie's Blog

I went back out to the quilt show on Sunday afternoon... They had had a quilting challenge...the first people in six groups of five were given a photo (of hot air balloons) to reproduce on their small hanging, and the next person in the group had to do their wall hanging as an interpretation of what the first person had done. And so on down the line in each group. Only the first person in each group got to see the original photo. All the others saw only the quilt that was made by the person just before them! A bit like a game of "whispers"! Very interesting. Above (top) we have a sample of the first in the group ...and above the last one in a group! there were other much larger quilts that had been made to specific instructions also...all had the same instructions as to what sort of blocks they made, but of course choosing their own materials and decorations. My sister wants to call this one above "quilt with legs"... I call it "very striking" (and of cour...

a part of Brisbane City from the vantage point of Mt Cootha ... more views of the city...and the river... a Botanical Artists exhibition at the Botanical Gardens.... and a quilt show at Brookfield Showgrounds... I am pretty sure that building, although it is a little old, is probably not on a lean as it appears to be in the photo above...I think it might have been the poor photography, sorry! the quilts were very interesting.. and there was some "Stitched Up" jazz outside to enjoy with a picnic.... Thanks for coming along with me to the Quilt Show.... For more My World posts, please click on the My World icon in the sidebar!

This once stately old Queenslander stands out on a corner at Brookfield, a leafy rural suburb not many kilometres from the city. In the last years the old house has been very dilapidated, so I was very surprised to see it now being renovated.