Aussie Challenge

 

NEW INFORMATION AND PICTURES ON BLOG 5/14/10!

See the latest update! It is finished! http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art8971.asp

 

http://worldsbiggesthexagonquilt.blogspot.com/

 Click the link above to see pictures of the quilt to date! It looks great!

 

 The Quilt is now so big it is hard to take a single picture of it!

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"(i)The Inaugural TASA (The Australian School of Appliqué) will be held in Gatton in May 2010. In conjunction with TASA we will be having a Retrospective Quilt Show which will display Antique and New Reproduction Quilts.

As a special part of this Quilt Show we are hoping to create the World’s Biggest Hexagon Quilt. We will be asking the Guinness Book of Records to adjudicate our challenge at the Quilt Show. The completed Hexagon Quilt will be displayed as a special feature at the Quilt Show.

After the completion of the Quilt Show the hexagon quilt will be made into smaller quilts and distributed to Nursing Homes and Aged Care Facilities."

 

 

Aussie Update 12/1/09:

I was talking to Gail Chalker on the weekend and it looks like with all of the hexagon flowers received so far that the quilt will be over 100 metres long x 2.5m wide (328.1 feet long x 8.2 feet wide).  Amazing isn't it!  Of course this not the end as there are still some arriving this week so it can only get bigger.  Gail said that they even have their postman hooked as he now likes to see all the new arrivals as well as he delivers them - he thinks it is great.
 
Also working bees have started with car loads of lovely ladies making their way to Gatton each Monday from the surrounding South East Queensland cities and towns to help sew all of the flowers together.  Quilting this mammoth effort is going to be fun!!!! 
 
Happy stitching,
 
Margot Kitchen.

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Aussie Challenge Pictures

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The lady on the right in pictures 1 & 3 is Gail Chalker - the lady organising the quilt, and the others are all lovely volunteers helping to put all of the contributed blocks together to make the completed quilt.  At our State Guild's (Queensland Quilters) Annual show they had over 5 metres (16.4 Feet) together to show, and over the 5 days of the show they constructed another 2.5 metres (8.2 Feet) if my memory serves me right.  Gail was saying at the time that they were estimating that with the rosettes contributed so far that the quilt would be over 40 metres long x 2.5m wide (131.2 feet x 8.2 feet).  Of course this was only with the ones they had recieved into their busy little hands so far, so any more donations would be greatly appreciated as they want to make it much longer than this if they can.
Let's make this one amazing world record to be a part of.
 
Best Regards,
Margot Kitchen.
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