Wednesday 5th of June 2013

 

What a fun day we had! We raised money with our “Cuppa for Cancer” Biggest morning tea. There was a raffle with lots of prizes and a door prize as well – won by a lucky Jeanette, and we have a class with the lovely Miriam Blight as well.

As usual I didn’t take a picture early enough – as some of our morning tea had already mysteriously disappeared, but trust me, it was a fine spread.

 

some of our great door prizes!

    

A corner of the room was set up for our mice class – those who did it got a really cute thread holder and  - if you are game enough to stab it – a pin cushion as well.

   

First we lined up all the finished mice, then they separated into groups to gossip, and then, I do hate to say this, a skirmish occurred! If you receive one of these cute critters from your Secret Santa, you can be sure she was at Carrum Downs today!

 

 

    

Some show and tell: Wendy, back from sailing the high seas, with her crocheted lap quilt.  Bar with her colourful Bonnie Hunter “Stepping Stones”, and her very cute Cat quillow from Bunny Hill.

 

Here is a Waverley Gift quilt shown by Jo. Beautiful bright fish! Waverley quilters donated 52 gift quilts last month alone! And Jenny brought along a lovely bright bag she had made.

    

Here is Robyn delightful stable bag, and look  - it has had a baby! The gorgeous green one is Di’s.

 

And a look at a new book in our library, plus a book I brought in to show everyone on Russian pre-revolutionary clothing.

And that is it until Wednesday 3rd of July and then, please don’t forget our pre- pre- retreat special Carrum Downs get together on Wednesday 17th of July – should be lots of fun!

Your roving reporter,

Helen Evans

May 1st 2013 Meeting

It was lovely small meeting this month, but we had a great day just the same.

Before I get into the show and tell I would just like to let you all know that our June meeting is our Biggest Morning Tea meeting. We'll have a few raffles prizes, some yummy morning tea and we have a guest tutor coming in to do a little workshop - a mouse pincushion and cotton reel holder, should be fun.

Please come and join us for a fabulous day of chatter, laughs and stitching.

Ok on to show and tell, ................

Deidre  is working on an old (1990's) UFO, a Semco embroidery doily kit

Bronwyn's Periwinkle stars quilt is coming along very nicely

Wyn has made this 1600 quilt from batiks. She has appliqued some butteflies and added a border for this stunning effect. 

Marilyn attended a  workshop with Noriko Endo, to come out with this gorgeous little Confetti quilt. 

Jeanette attended Applique School run by Threadbear of Castlemaine. The class was with Di Ford, showing the ladies how to do needleturn Broderie Perse. The effect is just beautiful.

L to R starting at the bottom, Fran(back), Cynthia, Deidre, Jeannette, Maggie, Marilyn and Jennifer

L to R Jo, Wyn, Dianne, Bronwyn and Julie

That's it from me, Hopefully the lovely Helen will be back in full swing this month.

Ramona

 your stand in reporter.

April 3rd 2013

Easter 2013 is over in Victoria the schools are on holidays, this meant there were fewer members present at the April meeting.  Members bought along some lovely Show 'n' Tell.

The photo on the right shows 2 of Robyn's block for her Farmers Wife quilt.

Dianne showed this lovely Polyhedron Star.

 Bar is progressing with her QAYG hexagons.

Block 1

 These lovely blocks are needle turned by Sally for her Jacobean Quilt.

Block 2 on the right

Four of Sally's finished blocks.

Marilyn was stitching this lovely Bargello in green and cream wool

Jennifer has this lovely bag with an unusual handle.  The handle slides across as you open/close the zip.

Marilyn also showed these 2 lovely bags constructed with Indian wood blocks, Shiva sticks and lots of quilting.

Bronwyn bought along some of her completed Signature Quilts from previous retreats.

This is the back from Bendigo retreat 2007.










ON the right is the front of the Bendigo Retreat quilt with the fabrics and signature squares from the committee members.

The Black and white one is from Auckland Retreat 2004

This one is from Sydney retreat 2005.

close up of some sigs.

Some more sigs and fabrics.

Another of Julie's ducks

Jo was working on this A4 quilt to commemorate Anzac Day.  Red Poppy with gold lettering Lest We Forget as shown on the card Jo is holding.

Deidre was working on this block which will be made into a bag.

Needle turned applique cat pattern by Maggie Walker, "My Cat's Garden"

Is our Maggy's work she has completed 6 of the 9 blocks.

Laurel is working on the pattern "Down in the Garden"  this is block no 5.

Fran showed this quilt made from blocks made by Cathy S. in Queensland in 2005-6 a swap through WOF Yahoo Group.  This is to be given to the Sunflower Foundation with Cathy's permission to be auctioned on May 18th.  Fran was stitching down the binding.

Hermine is hand stitching these clam shells with triangles.  Only about 280 more to complete.

 Fran had another finished UFO  to show.
This one was made from blocks received in another block swap x 2 from the Yahoo Group SCQATC.  This groups usually makes postcards and Artist Trading Cards to swap, someone suggested swapping blocks 18 ladies agreed.  Fran made a couple of extras to make this quilt larger.