Tollgate Quilters Guild Facebook Page

Please note that as of today the Tollgate Quilters Guild Facebook page is closed as a result of a lack of interest on the part of the members.

I will give this blog another thee months and if there is no movement on this blog, I will either hand it over to someone else to run or close it down.

Quilt Patterns

Since Blogger won't allow me to post quilt patterns in PDF format on these blogs, I have taken to posting them in the Tollgate Quilters Guild Facebook page.
Please feel free to mosey along there and download them if you like them.

Here is the address:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/207265355980509/

FREE ,FREE, FREE!

We all like free things and quilters are no different to anyone else.

 How would you like some free magazines that won't clutter up your sewing room and where you need only download the pages you want?

How many of our members know that there are free magazines to be had all over the internet? Have you bothered to look?

Here is one:
On Line Quilt Magazine



There is a paid version as well but the free version has some interesting articles, quilt patterns and reviews- not to mention the odd recipe or two.

Then I looked on ISSUU ( the same place where our Kzn Quilters Guild newsletter resides) and found dozens of FREE quilting magazines, including some we will never see here in South Africa.

Try the Fons and Porter " Block Buster" or "Down Under Quilting" or a host of others.

All you need to do is put "quilting" into the search bar and they will all come up. Even better, if you sign up with  ISSUU.com  , you can create your own bookshelf  and retain the magazines for reading later or to come back to. If you sign up , they are also downloadable and printable.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SEARCH BAR:

Type in "quilting" and PRESS YOUR ENTER KEY! Don't press the little X in the right hand corner of the bar.

Go take a look - you will be pleasantly surprised at what is out there in the big wide world of the Net.

Quilt Addicts Annonymous

I found this rather interesting blog recently. You might enjoy it so please feel free to take a look:

Quilt Addicts Anonymous

There are quite a few tutorials here which I think will be useful to many of us, especially our newer members. 

It led me on to :

 Quiltscapes  which is another blog  with loads of tutorials, patterns and projects.

One project that caught my eye was the portable design board which every quilter should have.

Here is the link:

Portable Design board Tutorial

ENJOY!

Tollgate Newsletter February 2014

Clever Idea

Here is such a clever idea to keep other family members from using your favourite scissors:

Keep your scissors safe

January 2014 Newsletter

Quilting and Tension and Thread

I came across this really good explanation of  tension problems when quilting and found some manageable tips as well.



Quilting Tidbits

Enjoy!

FESTIVE GREETINGS

Wishing all a very Merry Christmas, happy holidays and safe travelling for those on the move.

I had such fun making the poinsettia cushion ........

........ that I made a Luscious Little Layering using the same technique but scaled down ..

Wishing you all the very best for 2014 .

The Colour Orange

Hate the colour orange and never use it in your quilts?
Here is an interesting take on the colour by Judy Bellingham

Orange

There is a LOT more to range than "prison Orange"!
Enjoy!

November meeting- and Christmas party

The November meeting for the Tollgate Quilters became a a fun filled party evening  and here are some of the photos to prove it.

Beulah and her quilt

Beulah having fun with the audience

Miranda telling about her quilt to an admiring group.

Phil and her pointsettia cushion

Some luscious little layerings.

Australian Quilter

I was sent this link to an Australian website.
You might want to take a look. The quilting is inspiring to say the least!

Rose Wise

November Newsletter

First Aid Kit Roll

Someone sent me this link to a tutorial which I think is REALLY practical.

Portable First Aid Kit

Enjoy!

Greyville Show

Tollgate Quilters Guild took a stand at the annual hobby/craft show at Greyville Race course last weekend amid a deluge of rain.
We hung quilts,demonstrated the craft of patchwork and quilting and generally hung out with crafters of all persuasions-including a few quilters.

Its a great venue for us to promote quilting as a craft and hopefully we have inspired visitors to the show to try their hand at it.

The entrance to our stand

Phil Fisher demonstrating her flowers

Some of the quilts inside our stand.

October Newsletter

September Newsletter

Free Patterns

I have just been sent a link to a website with lots of free patterns. Some of them are rather interesting- simple enough for beginners but interesting enough for more advanced quilters.
Here it is:

Riley Blake Designs

This is one of them   



Look under "Sewing Notions".

Annette Lee's Cat Quilt on Show at our Guild Meeting

Cat Quilt- Late coming home!!

I everyone - I'm back on the Blog - I had a tech problem but all sorted now - YAH!
This is my Cat Quilt for the Tollgate Quilters' Show on the 22nd June 2013. Hope you are all very busy making yours for our display.