Well folks, here at long last is all the info from our wonderful Christmas Party – held way way back at the beginning of December. I apologise for the extreme delay, but as the month progressed, both my dodgy laptop and my mother deteriorated progressively. Fortunately my mother is on the mend, however, the laptop, not being covered by Medicare is hanging on by a thread – “as we speak” husband Merv is preparing my new one – so at least our February get together will be covered by not only new laptop, but (are you listening Ramona?) a new shite and briny camera – !
Here is our table of wonderful Kris Kringle gifts.
Here, back at last from her epic overseas journey, is the lovely Narelle – working on her Dear Jane blocks – as ever!
Here, Bar is working on, yet another hexagon quilt- looking gorgeous.
Laurel is working on her shashiko blocks – looking very precise – the block, not Laurel – she is her usual lovely, imprecise self!
Can’t quite see what Maggy is working on, but I hope it is for me!
Wyn is her usual friendly, industrious self.
Robyn, working on a tiny, but beautiful border. I am sure we will see the finished product in the new year.
Ginny’s WIP – a lovely Christmas wall hanging.
Sue’s exquisite WIP – coloured in (Derwents???) and ready to be painted with textile medium.
I think these are Kate’s beautiful hand pieced star blocks. Am I right Kate?
This lovely block is what Helen Yann has been working on – what can I say? It is superb.
Ramona’s gorgeous Christmas elves.
Just explaining – to my lovely Adelaide Angel – Ann Bennet that I (Helen E) have done more of this wonderful gift from her than it looks – I am stitching by colour and finished the tiny writing on ALL of the blocks and am now almost finished doing all the windows on all the blocks!
Here we see Hermione re-sewing the bells on her beautiful Santa Sacks – pattern by our Ramona.
Sandra just happened to have the full set of gorgeous hand made gifts from her Adelaide angel – love the fabrics, as well as the final products.
Sally did a wonderful job of needle turn on this block for her Dear Jane quilt – she says needle turn is not her thing – but it looks pretty good to me.
Laurel made this really sweet Christmas wall hanging – beautiful work.
Pam has taken on the formidable task of making a quilt from Michelle Hill’s “William Morris” book – here are her first two blocks – magnificently appliquéd by hand.
Yet another example of Jennifer’s magnificent machine quilting – she does it all QAYG – hope you can see it amongst the lovely Irises on her “Iris Exuberant” quilt
Fran’s “Jester’s Bag” – a gorgeous Christmas basket made with the help of folded cardboard in the centre.
Sue’s sister, who was visiting us for the day showed us a photo on her camera of her “Red Delicious” block – hard to see, but it is a marvellous example of this popular quilt.
Another work from Fran – this wall hanging has a story to it. It is called “Emma’s Tree” after a young mother who sadly died of breast cancer. Her mother Miriam is more than happy for anyone to make this pattern up – as long as they tell the story of Emma on their quilt/wall hanging – I am about to try add the file to the Scquilters yahoo site, but if anyone cannot access it – just e-mail me and I can send it to you.
Here is Sue once more, with a really pretty quilt bag in lovely rose fabric.
The above photos are all of yet another masterpiece from Sue – she tackled the “Brest of friends” quilt published this year in Homespun magazine and did a magnificent job – have a close look at all the photos, including the one where the skirt of the girl is full of French knots – how many hours Sue, or did you lose count after 3 million?
The above photos are all of Cynthia’s version of a BOM from Patchwork Pumpkin – for her niece’s 50th birthday. What a lovely job – I wish I was your niece Cynthia!!!
Here we have the famous Hermione with just one of the Santa sacks she has ready for Christmas. This is for her husband Douglas – how can you tell??
And, from Ramona, our “international woman of mystery quilts” this beautiful mystery quilt she has designed to teach at Foothills Fabric and Threads. Ab fab!
The above quilts resulted from last year’s “Christmas Star Block” competition – where the lucky winners have brought in their completed (or partially completed) quilt tops to show the rest of us . What a wonderful effort from our winners.
Obviously, stars are more popular than angels, as we had 81 star blocks last year, and only 9 angel blocks this year – or perhaps we were just all busy and tired, anyway, we hope to see three angel quilts next year at our Christmas party from the above gorgeous blocks.
These stitcheries were made by me as a result of a lovely day at “Glenharrow” in Belgrave with Rosalie Quinlan and Leanne Beasley – We all got these two beautiful kits – and I hope to bring the completed items along early in the New Year.
And gosh! How did this get here – she will kill me if she finds out, but this is a photo of our daughter Elizabeth on Boxing Day – almost 18 now.
So, until our next get together on Wednesday 3rd February 2010, have a wonderful New Year.
Your roving reporter,
Helen Evans,
Devon Meadows, Vic.