Winners at the 2013 Townsville Show

The champions from each sections are:
 
Knitting: Sponsored by Bendigo Woollen Mills - Heather Lamont

 

Crochet: Sponosored by Anne-marie Hair Salon - Wendy Harvey















 
Hand Embroidery and Needlework: sponsored by Ray and Linda Gartrell -  Wilma Brookhouse



 











Cross stitch and Tapestry: Sponsored by Cando books
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Supreme Champion – Sponsored  the Townsville Show - Judith Nutt













 
Patchwork and quilting, which have two awards - Best piece of patchwork and quilting: Sponsored by Quilters Blessing Patchwork - Keryn Hall







 






 
And champion quilt: Sponosored by Fibers and Fabrics -  Alison Garret

 
 

Machine Sewing: also sponosed by Quilters blessing patchwork - Kay Lowe














 

Champion doll: Sponosored by Tropical Topsie Dolls Club – Beryl Bull



 










 
Fabric base crafts: Sponosed also by Quilters Blessing Patchwork - Veronica Sand














 




Non fabric based crafts: sponosored by Ray and Linda Gartrell - Lyn Newman
 











Special needs Person: sponsored by Complete Tag Solutions - Cheryl Gray
 















Persons over 65:  Sponsored by Quilters Blessing Patchwork - Pat Skvarc

 












And
Secondary school children: Quilters Blessing patchwork - McKenzie Hilditch
 














Secondary Encouragement award –Sponsored by Complete Tag Solutons And Jenni Stewart-  Ebonie Crane (St Margaret Mary’s College Student) 















Primary school children: Sponsored by Complete Tag Solutions and Jenni Stewart – Taylor Stafford





Primary encouragement award: Sponsored by Fibers and Fabrics  – Kesley Krueger
 














 

Champion Primary boy: Sponosored by CinShei Designs in memory of their grandson Mason -  Clinton Zonneveld













Our special awards are:
 
The Esma Squire Encougement Award, sponsored by QCWA, Townsville - winner Rachel McGuinness

 
Trevor and Jean Grover Perpetual Trophy - Innovation Award – Sponsored by Sunlit Blooms Sewing – Arlene White (yes me)....














Aggregate champion  – Sponsored by Sunlit Blooms Sewing – Jenni Stewart
Jenni is being presented with her $500 voucher from Diann, Sunlit Blooms Sewing.













Congratulations to all the winners

A BIG THANK YOU to all our wonderful sponsors:

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Everest Designs, The Quilters Blessings Patchwork, Kimono quilts, NQ Fabrics Buttons and bows, Colleen Gleeson, Complete Tag Solutions, A Bear Affair, Anne-Maries Hair Salon, AZZA scrapbooking, A Craft Affair, the Bead Shack, BnD Quality Picture Framing, Supreme Picture framing, Bottlebrush Lane, Townsville Hatters, Fibers and Fabrics, Councillor Ray Gartrell and his wife Linda. Marci’s Quilting, Echinda Embroidery, The Tropical Topsie Dolls Club, Just Country Crafts, Hillbilly Craft Store, CinShei Designs, Cardz byou, Can do Books, Bendigo Woollen Mill, Jenni Stewart and The QCWA.

I have had a few people say to me I’ve done a fantastic job, thank you, but I could not do half this job as well without the great support and help from these fantastic women and gentlemen, so a huge thank you to my team of helpers: 

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Helga Lee, Leisa and Amanda Everest, Kerin Griffiths, Keryn Hall, Judy Parsons, Ray Part, Pat Skvarc, Jean Grove, Jean Nicholson, Mavis Bunting, Shirley Boyd, Rachel McGuiness, Bev Roy, Daphne Higginson, Connie Peeters, Heather and Tony Lamont and some new comers, our Fibres and Fabrics ladies Veronica, Lyn, and Helen and I know I’m going to miss some, so thank you so very much. Also to Bev Gunton who takes a permanent record of our exhibition.

 Arlene

Winning results - Townsville Show

After an exhausting two weeks of Judging, and hanging the exhibits for the Townsville Show, it's all done.  Last Thursday night was the Presentation evening, and there was a fabulous show up.
Some of our sponsors were there to present their prizes, and I was honored to be presented with the Innovative Champion Trophy by Jean Grove for my CQJP 2012 Crazy Patchwork Christmas Tree Skirt. 

To add more icing on the cake, I received 3 firsts and 2 seconds for my 8 entries. The three first's were for my gold beetle, Cheerful Fluttering's and my Crazy Patch thread roll.  The seconds were for my 'Doris' and Goldwork Poinsettia flower.

Getting a first for my beetle was a wonderful surprise and just adds to the excitement that little bug has created. Not to say I'm not excited about my other pieces, but he is something special to me now.  I am also over the moon about the tree skirt, it's amazing how many men have actually stopped and looks and oohed and aahed at it, very exciting.
After the show is finished I will post the winning champions.
Arlene

Time for the 'Show' - The Townsville Show

Boy oh Boy has this year flown by, it's already half way done and that means it's Show time.

The entries are in, Judged and are now being hung for public viewing...... Can't tell you winners yet, that would spoil the surprise......

Our smiling judges with me (Chief Steward). 













Our small group of hangers, Leisa (on the ladder) organizes all the hanging, and does a fantastic job.  We had a great representation from St Mary's College here in Townsville, nearly 150 items for entered by their students.  This is the year 8 bags being hung.

 Barb, our judge from Gladstone, judged the Schools section, Judy in the background as her assistant.

 Kim from Brisbane, judged the Quilting, senior sewing, bears and dolls.  Lyn in the background was her helper, along with Helga and Veronica.

 Lyn (r) judged the Knitting, Crochet, Hand embroidery and Cross Stitch sections, she was helped by Kath and Veronica.

 Yvonne and Deborah, from Cairns judged everything else.

Thank you Judges for a job well done.

More in the next few days after everything is hung, and Presentation night over....
Arlene

3 French Hens.....

Finally got to work on block three of the CQJP 2013 project.  On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, three french hens....

 This is the block with the hen ornament. 

And then removed to show three more french hens. The three silver charms I purchased on Norfolk Island in February, the three buttons I got from Sunlit Blooms sewing, my local shop, just perfect.

Felt made Hen, fit's nicely in place.

Now onto 4 Cally birds...... gosh more birds..... did you know the first four days are all birds....

Arlene

Stumpwork DYOB (Do Your own block) - Beth's block

For some reason it seemed to take forever to finish this block, I guess it's because I have had so much on lately.  Hopefully it will slow down after the next four weeks.

Here is my work on Beth's block.

 Plus close ups

Now back to work on catching up on my CQJP blocks... no 3...   Arlene

ATC Swap with Embroiderers Guild friends in the UK.

We recently did a swap with the Fibre's and Fabric's ladies and the Embroiderer's Guild UK, Embroidery Friends forum (wow what a mouthful).

Well this is the lovely ATC I received from Carol

Here is the one I sent Carol

And here are the others that were received from the other ladies in the UK.

There are more, but this is all I have
photographed.

Arlene

My new Logo

This is going to be our new logo we will be using for our APP.

Arlene

Spring/Summer offerings of Classes at Joggles

I have 4 classes in the next round of offerings from Joggles.com
2 New classes and 2 that are being re-offered.
New classes are:
'Hopper-Grass'

and 'Mermaid'

The classes being re-offered, are 'Beetles in Stumpwork' and 'Twines in Nature'.

I am still amazed by the interest in my beetles, this class has run each season now for 18 months.

Also on offer are two classes from a fellow Australian, Janet Banks.  Janet is also a member of Fibres and Fabrics.  Click here to go to her classes and blog.

 

 Arlene

Southern Cross Crazy's 2012 Round robin finally finished.

Here is the last block I worked on, it was Faye's.  I had already done some work on it whilst I was on Norfolk Island, and used it as my teaching tool.  They Alison took it home and added her lovely work.  I then just needed to work around the beetle and send it on.  Here is my work - Silver worked beetle, hand dyed flower motif and the beaded flowers around the beetle, motif and crochet centre.

 

This is now how the block looks all finished, just stunning.

 

And now my block is home and finished too.  I chose the blue and white to challenge the ladies, and I think they did a great job.

keeping with my Christmas theme, I have another block exactly the same, so will embroider it during the year and have two to make into cushions.

Thank you to all the Southern Cross ladies who worked on my block, Alison, Faye, Pattie, Jennifer, Maureen G, and Maureen B and Linda.

Arlene

Building an APP, winner

The lucky winner was no 11, Margaret St John.  Thank you everyone for helping me to develop this app, it's now started and on the way to being reality.

Margaret I will email you to get your address, and post your gift to you shortly.

Arlene

Building an APP - Giveaway

G'day All,

There are so many APP's out there, but not very many on embroidery, so my son (a techno lad) and I are going to build an APP - called of course - Arlene's Crafts. It will include free tutorials of stitches, and elements of some of my creations. With an 'in market' tool to buy a full class if you wish.

Not to say I have enough to do, but I am in the early stages of building the APP for IPhone, IPad, and Android devices. But I need YOUR help.  I need some feedback, suggestions and researchers.

First of all I need to do some market research, are you interested?   If yes, and you agree to sign a confidentiality agreement, (governed in the state of Queensland, Australia) then send me an email with your details, where in the world you live. Once I receive this I will send you a survey form.

Then hopefully shortly after we've collated the information and designed the app, I will send you a link to download the app (in it's early stages) and you will do a test run and send feedback to us. This may happen a couple of times, depending on feedback and bugs in the APP.  We hope to have the app approved by Apple by the end of the year.

The app is going to be a FREE app, with some 'in market' tabs. Here's an example of what the pages may look like. This would be one of the Free stitch tutorials.

 And of course my 3D butterfly will be one of the first free tutorials on the app.

If you don't want to be part of the research and development of this APP, but would still like to leave suggestions, please leave a comment and everyone who does (including those who wish to participate) will go into the draw for one of my latest creations - 'Hopper-grass'. An up coming class soon on Joggles.

Entry closes next Friday evening 8.00 pm 12th April (Australian Time).

Arlene

Belated Christmas wish list item

At Christmas time we have a tradition in our small family to put a list on the fridge for what we would like for Christmas instead of trying to find out what each would like.  Some things are really outrageous, and we don't always get what's on the list, we not exactly, like one year Darling Son (was 18 at the time) put a Ferrari on there, so we bought him a matchbox Ferrari, he didn't specify what size.... anyway I digress.  One of my wishes was a craft room makeover.... outrageous I know, but, I was hoping it was going to happen whilst I was away at the Scout Jamboree, in hind sight (great thing that hind sight), I'm glad it didn't.  The shifting, sorting of stuff, destashing some items etc, was just something I wouldn't want to leave to my boys....  Now it came about by hubby drowning his phone on Norfolk Island, and wanting a lawn mower that mulches.... You see he bought these two new items, using the money I had saved in our PayPal account for my new cupboards, well, I let hubby know this and he said I could just go and use the credit card instead..... well, I did.... and here is my new craft room makeover, one week later... sore back, knee's, legs, anything that bends.....

 Inspirations, and Cross-stitch and Embroidery Magazines and my beads in the corner, new white clear door cupboard for the rest of my books and magazines.

 The nic nac cupboard, items that wouldn't fit in the other cupboard, like finished items, my 'gold' supplies and felt box. The coloured drawers are now in the other spare room also, it's got all my scrap booking stuff in it.

These tall boys house all my fabric, except for my linens and aida cloths, there still in another draw in the other spare room. The lovely wood grain drawers are my threads (I got that for last Christmas), and the small bookshelf beside this has all my Crazy quilting books and stitch dictionaries.

I also changed my desk to a smaller one, less chance to clutter as much, but still have the built in cupboard to sort....

I first need to find a home for my post stamp collection, which is lining the back of that top shelf, I've collected since a teenager.

So what do you think, I'm spoiled, yes I know, and I let him know how much I like my new room.