Wednesday 3 August 2016

There was a small crowd today. Maybe it is getting close to AGM time!

Please don't forget the AGM next Wednesday 10 August. Remember, a club only functions as much as members are prepared to get involved in running it.

It was a great thrill today to see the proceeds of the Charity Quilt raffle being handed over to the Northern Beaches Girl Guides. It was also BomB (Block Of the Month Bonanza) day, Liz handed over her last Blanket of Love for a while as she pursues some slightly larger quilt making for abused children, and there were some very different quilts at Show and Tell. Joke was very lucky to win the badge draw after only joining us for a few weeks. Some people have been coming for years and have still not won!

President Marilyn accepting a certificate of appreciation from Amy and Joely of Northern Beaches Girl Guides after handing over our cheque for $1782. The guides will be getting new non-leaking tents for their camps and a sewing machine to learn to sew bags for the camping equipment. What a good result all round!

The demo for today's BomB, Delectable Mountains. Easy as pie! (Well, we'll see next week.)

This is third week in a row Marilyn has brought along something finished. Well done Marilyn. Keep up the good UFO work! Marilyn saw Phillipa making a quilt like this at last year's retreat and thought "I can do that", so she did. The circles are raw edged appliqued with straight stitch and it has already had one session through the washing machine to rumple up the edges a little.

Jean started this at last year's retreat too. All but one of the fabrics used in the blocks have been included in the border.

And all the left over pieces of fabric were used up in the pieced backing. Almost as much work in the backing as in the front piecing! 

Cheryl made this quilt for her neighbour who is going through a rough patch. The neighbour had been talking about patchwork and how much she loves purple and Cheryl saw that as a sign that she should get out all her purple fabrics and quickly make a quilt for her. Let's hope this really cheers her up!

Cheryl pieced the blocks QAYG so the back is a lovely framed patchwork of its own.

In the tradition of last year's raffle quilt for the Spring Fair, Kaye has once again helped with her Carlyle Gardens Craft Group. This crazy patch with embroidered teacups and teapots is sure to be a draw card. Joan did the machine quilting.

Barbara has remade this bag which was originally constructed from one of Linda's kits but she was never entirely happy with how it turned out. There was a lot of work in remaking it, but she loves it now.