This morning saw 28 ladies gather in their Christmas finery and bling to enjoy some breakup shenagigans and a meal together. Our room had been decorated with bright placemats and silver Christmas runners and even little silver wrapped presents down the middle of the tables.
Conversation was calmed as everyone tried to unscramble the Christmas word scramble, find the words in the quilting wordsearch and match words to the letters of Merry Christmas. Joan eventually won the word scramble, Marion got the prize for finding all the quilting words and Cheryl won the alliterated words. Brenda declared that the words must be exactly the same as she had on her list and in the correct order. Although when someone wanted to know if 'yule" would count instead of 'yuletide' she was very lenient in allowing a half point! Robyn thought that she should get a point for her 'C' answer of cocktails, chocolate, custard and cream but Brenda was not that lenient. As soon as the answers were given, Kaye calls out that she has won unless anyone could beat 1 1/2. Somehow, Cheryl managed 9 1/2!
There was a competition to guess the length of a stitched selvedge. Flo got very close with 40 feet but was disqualified because it had to be in metric. Although we work in imperial, we do have to buy fabric in metres. Elaine and Liz were the closest to 11.472m but Elaine is better at guessing numbers and won the prize.
There were 4 lucky spot prizes of little sewing knick-knacks and these were won by Robyn, Marion, Brenda and Di. What a coincidence that Di and Brenda who had done so much to organise the function both ended up with prizes! (No, the staff secretly placed the spots so they actually didn't know where to sit!)
When it came time to draw the raffle Diana instructed Flo to pull out her ticket or she wouldn't drive her home. So Flo did just that! Diana won a lovely tin full of colourful batik fabrics. We thought Diana should pull out her mother's ticket for second prize, but it was Kaye, sitting on the other side of Diana. Second prize was a pincushion and thread catcher with some fabric lollies all made by Brenda. Not sure why there were no photos of the raffle prizes. Maybe the lucky winners zipped them out of sight very quickly so no one would make off with them!
The happy gathering at the Souths Suburban Bowls Club for the Breakup Lunch
What was in the gifts used as table decorations. Everyone got a zippered bag or pincushions. That is really what you call a lucky door prize! Everyone is lucky.
The results of the Fat Quarter Swap. As usual, everyone was thrilled with their beautiful fabric. Wherever does it all come from? Everywhere from Brisbane and the Gold Coast to Melbourne and even our local Needleworx.
And so ends another patchwork year. Thank you to all who celebrated it today. (Sorry Vera and Deane that you were otherwise detained. Best wishes to you both.) Thanks to President Delma for her work for the club and her boundless energy and enthusiasm. Thanks to Brenda and Di for all the wonderful surprises and fun organised for today.
And here are a couple of snippets from the Fat Quarter Swap.
QUILTERS NEVER GROW OLD, THEY JUST FALL TO PIECES
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We are actually NOT stopping sewing this year. Bring your quilting, handwork or machine, to the Women's Centre every Wednesday and we will join with the craft group there in the air conditioning.
Saturday sewing will continue on the second Saturday of the month at the Women's Centre.
Meetings at Northern Beaches Community Hall will resume Wednesday 7 February 2018.
And here is the very last apology for sub-standard photography. The Blogsperson does not know why she can't take an in focus photo in a large room. But no longer an issue. The position of Blogsperson and Camera Operator is now up for grabs. Please volunteer to Delma or this is the last Blog Post ever. Thanks for reading it for the past three years.
