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.