Our Biggest Morning Tea for Cancer

                                              Wednesday May 21st


This was our Biggest Morning Tea to raise money for cancer. The ladies were invited to wear rainbow colours in their clothing and to bring food with a yellow theme. With brightly coloured tablecloths on the tables we made a colourful sight. We raised almost $300 through donations and a raffle, and that will be given to a local cancer charity. Thanks everyone.

 

There were tea-related prizes for the best food, the most colourful lady, and for the teapots and cups and saucer sets amongst our display.

 

The YUMMY yellow food. Thanks to everyone who contributed and showed such imagination!

                 The winning cupcakes were made by Linda Inch.

The Winner of the teapot display was Iris Little with her well-used Billy. The competition was intense with an eclectic collection of colours and styles of teapots, but given the history of this one it was the stand-out winner. If it could just talk!!
Marlene won the cup and saucer competition for the same reason, having printed a description of the tea set her parents brought with them when they emigrated from Europe to Mackay.
And Karen Dutton had the most rainbow colours on her clothes, wearing a large draped chiffon scarf.

Entering into the spirit were these Rainbow Friends -  Margaret, Heather, Anne, Robyn, Barbro and Kathy. Jan wearing lilac had to leave early.

                               And now for some Show and Tell

 

This beautiful quilt with embroidered sayings was made by Karen Buckeridge. She used the zig-zag setting to embroider the letters and Chinese figures.

                       This lovely puppy-dog quilt was made by Nancy Foyle.

 

New Member Kathy McKenna made this striking table runner.

 

Joan Robinson made this pretty quilt with embroideries for a dear friend.

 

Wednesday 14th May

We had a very busy morning with the committee meeting first thing and an in-house workshop conducted by Joan Flack.
The committee is sorting out future events such as the Biggest Morning Tea on 21st, the display to go to the Greenmount Heritage Day that weekend on May 25th, The Mackay Show and our own forthcoming Exhibition and Craft Show in July. Everything seems to be happening in such a rush!

Here is Joan conducting her workshop on Borders, Mitres and Corners. It's good to see these aspects of quilt construction demonstrated to us and hopefully we will take home some of the lessons. All of these things can drastically affect the way our finished items look when they are not completed well, from distorting the shape, altering the blocks and the way the quilt sits.
Thanks to Joan Flack for doing this for us.

 

Our members do much more than make quilts. Here are two examples below; Anne Weller has made some tiny baby hats for premature babies, and Nancy Foyle is working on her crocheted blanket.

 

 

                          We know that's you hiding in there Nancy!

 

Below is a quilt Robyn Nicoll has finally finished after 13 years.

Well done Robyn. Now that's a challenge for all of us to get those UFO's out and finish them.

 

 

Finally this lovely Sun-bonnet Sue quilt has been made by Linda Lamont who you can see peering over the top.

 

 

 

Wednesday 30th April

 

Lesley presented us with the latest BOM, called Batik Swirls. Batik fabrics are to be used with cream.

 

Here are two of the lovely embroideries being worked on by our members.

 

 

Anne Weller is working on these blocks for a quilt.

 

 

Elaine completed this Technique Quilt while away on a Retreat. All the blocks have been stitched on an embroidery machine and include Trapunto, Cutwork, Stumpwork, Puff Foam, 3D, Batterburg Lace, Cross stitch, Sashiko, Crazy Patchwork, Applique, Candlewicking and Hardanger. 

 

 

Elaine has also made this beautiful table runner with her embroidery machine.

 

 

A detail of the clusters of Gumnuts.

 

 

\Helen Batho took part in the Neon Run on the Gold Coast to raise money in support of Neon4Nads. We held a raffle and the lucky winner was Heather Cuthbert and second prize went to Sharon Andrews (pictured below)