July Happenings & Show'n'Tell

Our July Gathering was extremely well attended, with lots and lots of Show'n'Tell this month.  Please enjoy the scrolling through the pictures this month, there is lots to see. 

During the Gathering a small Christmas Tree workshop was held and it was an impromptu "Christmas In July" event.  

For a different take on a Christmas Tree, these Suffolk Puffs with buttons will be stacked together to make gorgeous little tree decorations.  These are being made for sale at our Quilt Show in October.  As you can see, there's a lot in progress.

Look at these gorgeous clamshells!

A very excited H brought in her prize winning quilt from Vic Quilter's Showcase - She was awarded Runner-Up, Small Quilts, Amateur.  This is very exciting for our Group.

It's no secret that many of our Members LOVE Sashiko.  Check out these beautiful stitches!

Now for Applique! How gorgeous are these houses??

Some applique works in progress....

These two gorgeous small quilts depicting Japan and Australia....

And.... English Paper Piecing.... Oh My....

Some stitchery...

To round out the month, here are some finished quilts...  So much productivity!!

 

 Coming up in August:

            -  10-10 Super Saturday Sewing Day on Sat 13th,

            -  20th Anniversary Luncheon on Sun 21st, and;

            -  Monthly Gathering on Tues 23rd.

We hope to see you soon! :)

March Monthly Gatherings

March has seen some restrictions lifting and more Members attending our Gatherings.  We also had several new ladies join us to become Members.  This month's show'n'tell is amazing.  We shall start with Applique and work our way through it all.....

Penguin by HSh

Christmas Bear by KM

The two appliques, above, are so very cute.  They are going to be in a couple of fun quilts soon.

Below are two very pretty applique quilts, using very different techniques.  

Dream Catcher by JG

Stained Glass by JD

Some very cute hand embroidery with JMc translating a hand drawn elf into a stitchery and RD stitching a toadstool pincushion.

French knots into flower centres to being a new embroidery project by C in stunning, bright colours.

BH has been diligently working on her sashiko piece for a while now and it looks amazing.

One of the newest members, EMc, has embroidered, appliqued and had quilted her version of the Sue Spargo pattern - Folktales.  WOW! is the only word that comes to mind!!

Still in finishing mode, JG, has made a garden trellis quilt.  Soft, subtle and pretty.

Below - HSh was busy with binding.  She has made a grandchild's table mat, completed a very old UFO green table-runner and put together a Dr Seuss quilt top.

ML is hand-piecing apple-cores.  Love the light and dark colour choices.

JMc is hand-piecing octagonal flowers.  Each time she joins us there are different coloured flowers being stitched together.

One of our newer members, JS, is creating a very funky and modern looking hexagon quilt.

AdJ is making a Jen Kingwell pattern.

JG has had another finish, and this one's an absolute beauty!  It is the La Passacaligica quilt from one of the books by Willeyn Hammerstein.  Those "jewel" colours against the black background are amazing!

W is working on very, very pretty dresden plate circles with Liberty fabrics.

JG has been finishing all sorts of projects - cup of tea anyone?

And... to finish off all of the glorious March Show'n'Tell is this gorgeous (to me) classical blue and white winding ways by HSm.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this trip through our monthly gatherings. 

October Gatherings

This month has certainly shown that there is diversity within our group!  Looking through the eye candy below, one can see a small snippet of the wide variety of things people work on....

B has begun foundation piecing many, many Noah's Ark blocks...

D has recently purchased a long arm quilting machine and said "I just decided to have a go!"  WOW!  This is her first practice piece!!

In between times, D is hand-piecing these gorgeous little cranes...

J is making hexagons to surround an embroidered centre.

K has made this quilt using up all of her bits of blue left over pieces.  She has designed this to be a modern quilt.

It was completed using Quilt As You Go quilting which K stitched with her walking foot, thus quilting each block individually.  It's truly stunning.

Oh dear, this picture is sideways - not sure why that happened - but M is making a vase of roses from left over pieces of curtain fabric, which are made in the log cabin style and have some lovely free-motion stitching on them.

The other M has stated a new project with new fabric - ooohhhh ...

S has hand-knitted these dresses to fit Barbie Dolls and they are divine.

The same S has also been working quite diligently for some time now on hexagons.  She says that the assembled part is now wide enough, it needs to grow some more to become long enough.

Our newest member, S, has pulled out a 20 year old cross-stitch project and is keen to keep progressing on it as her grand-daughter has requested it when done.  A beautiful gift for sure.

V has been using english paper piecing for this mini-quilt.  I think it's about 12in square with all of those bits in it...

And to finish off this month, W, is hand appliqueing a block from the quilt "Celebrating Mary Brown".