Friday, January 17, 2020

First show and tell for 2020

We're off to a good start with three meetings this week, including a sit and sew / community sewing day. Here is the first batch of show and tell ...

Janice won first prize in an online sew-along for the Christmas 
stocking she made for her granddaughter (on the right), so 
she made a new one for her grandson as well. 
Congratulations Janice, we are not at all surprised that your 
beautiful work won the prize!.

Sue started the year well, wth the last stitches in her
'Little Miss April' (pattern by Margaret Sampson George)
sewn on 1 January. It is finished with a classic English knife
edge seam rather than binding. Not bad for a novice
English paper piecer and hand quilter!
Everyone loves Miss April's backing!
Hilary used the summer break to finish her SuperStars quilt
top, made entirely of batiks, many from a 2019 trip to Bali.


Elsa bought a kit, but thought she would have difficulty
 making it. So Yvette cut it out, Dawn pieced it, and now
Elsa finds she really likes it. Great team work.

Sewing days are a great opportunity to enlist extra hands and
use the big tables to baste quilt tops. Jo-Ann plans to machine
quilt concentric circles on her Zen Chic Moda quilt.

Robin strip pieced a Christmas tablecloth for her family,
that was very well received, and happily stayed on the
table for every meal in Christmas Day.
A Christmas gift of a Cri-Cut machine has kept
Daphne happily busy.



Nerida has been enjoying her 'Bessie Creek Road',
using her lovely fabric stash.

Lyn is developing her already considerable quilting skills,
practising with her free motion quilting rulers on her
domestic machine.

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