How can it be so close to the end of the patchwork year already?
Next week is the last meeting for the year in the hall. Come along with some Christmas baking and we'll test it to see "If it's poison". (That's what I used to say to my children when I wanted to taste something but wanted them to wait.)
It was the last BomB (Block Of the Month Bonanza) for the year today and of course it was a Christmas one, even though the BomB Lady does not do Christmas in November, does not like Christmas quilts and has never made one. This block is cute and easy though.
Lesley won the Badge Draw again today which must surely last her now for the next three years. Another excuse to pop down to Needleworx though.
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| This little tablecentre is what Elaine has been working on at the Saturday sew-ins for nearly the whole year. She had a pack of fat eighths and really didn't know what to do with them when she found this pattern, but had to draw up all the paper piecing triangles herself. It certainly is fantastically intricate but Elaine reckons it loses the effect when it is placed flat on a table. Anyway, it is finished! |
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| Elizabeth is sending this cute and bright quilt off to Brisbane this week. It is made from Jan Mullen's Country Housez pattern. So cute. |
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| A quilt from Elaine that has not one piece of machine embroidery on it! The stunning flowered fabric is a piece she bought at Molly Dooks. Elaine said she was disappointed that the orange segments don't link up because she used too dark a fabric for the squares, but it looks pretty good here. That binding looks like it is a bit of a challenge though! |
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| Deane had some 1 1/2" strips of fabric and wasn't sure what to do with them. When she saw a hombre strip pieced design using the 60 degree ruler which she had just bought, she had to have a go at it. (And the photographer is going to have to start waiting until the story of the piece is finished before she clicks the photo. Sorry Deane.) |
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| Lesley showing the clever way to sew a diagonal seam without marking it in the BomB demonstration today. The block is called Christmas Presents even though it looks like a shirt with a bow tie from this angle. |
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