The Guild has been donating the proceeds from their Biennial Quilt Show raffle to the Snowy Hydro Southcare Helicopter Service over many years and at the end of the 2010 show, was challenged to make a quilt for the Children's Ward of Canberra Hospital.
The brief to the quilting groups was simple - make a block featuring their landscape with Flash somewhere in the block. Each block was to be A3 in size and Flash should be in the green/blue/white colourway.
We decided that the most distinct landmarks for our region were the wind turbines dotting the hills around Lake George and that we could have Flash flying around them.
Here's our progress:
Our subject - Flash the soft toy - very cuddly and colourful in bright greens, blue and white.
Line drawing provided by the Guild - could be reduced or enlarged as desired. For our block it was enlarged and copied twice. One copy became the master sheet for the applique pieces and the other sheet became the pattern pieces.
We decided to make the block in bright colours.
The completed block - hand appliqued and machine quilted by our members
I'm happy to say that the response from the affiliated groups was fantastic and last count there were enough blocks to make two quilts!
Many thanks to Bungendore members who helped in any way.
Judy Smith
BQI Minutes Secretary
When Flash arrived with me he was appliqued and the background was complete. I had the job of finishing Flash's blanket stitching and making him come to life. Given he looked a little cheeky I thought he needed some brightening up. Finishing all the applique with matching threads just seemed a little dull and a bit predictable and goodly eyes made him look decidedly creepy. Sparkly silver seemed the right choice for the white. Also it reminded me of snow sparkling in the sun and Flash is often called on to assist at rescues in the snow. That is how Flash got to look so f-laaaash.
Bernadette Finglas-Watson
BQI member
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