The Cutting of the Quilt

The Quilt is finished, the results recorded and judged.  The quilt is accepted as a world record and will be in the Guiness World Book of Records.  

So now what happens?

Hold a chop up Party!!

Gail took great pleasure in making the first cut.  She called it a Yahoo!! moment.  All the hard work, planning and wonderful contributions from quilters all around the world had resulted in a world record and a very large and heavy quilt.  The plan had always been to cut it up and distribute it to charities and nursing homes and that task is underway now.  

The quilt has been cut into 115 smaller quilts of various sizes. A wonderful group of ladies is current adding the bindings to the quilts and a morning tea is planned to present the quilts to the various organisations.

I will post more photos as the work progresses.

Cheers

Christine

Queensland Quilters Picnic

Well the quilt is almost finished and is displayed along a fence for the Queensland Quilter's Annual Picnic.  This is at the Gatton Historical Village on Tuesday May 11 2010.

 At this stage the quilt is still in a couple of sections and has to be stitched together prior to the official judging to see if it sets a world record.

The quilt is now being hung in the Gatton Town Hall as part of the quilt display for the Inagural Gatton Quilt Show.

Can you see your hexagons?

The quilt is finished and judged.

Some facts about the quilt:

• The completed quilt ended up being 108.8 metres long or 357 feet for those on the other side of the pond.

• It contains 152 636 hexagons.

• Weighs 146.7 kilograms or 321 pounds.

• The machine quilting used 17 358 metres of Bottomline Thread and 26 240 metres of So Fine thread from Superior Threads.  They “sponsored” this hence the plug.

• It took approximately 160 hours to quilt and bind.

• Lyn started quilting the first section on 5th January and quilted 20 sections in total, the largest was 7.5metres  or 24.6 feet long.

• The last section was pieced to the quilt 4 hours before judging.

Hopefully I will have some photos of the completed quilt to post in the next few days.

Craftexpo Brisbane

The quilt is currently on display at the Craftexpo which is being held in Brisbane until Sunday. 

It is now so big that it is now longer possible to get it all in one photo if you any to see any detail.

Wrapped in Hexagons

Online magazine atricle

And of course, I'm busy putting hexagons together for the World's Biggest Hexagon Quilt. It will be launched in May, and I will keep you posted about that. Here's the link to the latest update about the Hexagon

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4580.asp

Gail in Gatton

MAN HELPS CREATE HEXAGON QUILT !!

This message was received from one of the army of volunteers helping in this marathid challenge.  It was just too much fun not to share:

Judy Crosswell here. I was one of the Beenleigh Quilting members who spent a day at Gatton on Jan 27 to take part in the Giant Hexagon Quilt Working Bee.

As you know, our member Faye Bowman, has encouraged us to continue the Working Bee back home so a group of us have been making hexagons, sewing them together into rosettes, sewing these then into rows and sewing the rows together. Then comes the fiddly part - removing the papers!!

I have found a novel way to do this - enlist my husband Gordon's help! The attached photo shows this; he has even been heard to comment that it is quite addictive. And I have heard him curse some of the tiny stitches holding the papers in!

As this is mainly a "girls"effort I thought you should know that the men are with us all the way!!

What a trooper.  Good on ya Gordon!