Wednesday 25th June 2014

The weather was beautiful and lots of ladies in attendance but only one show and tell this week. 

Joan Flack shows off her newly completed quilt.

Everyone must be working on their badges or articles for our Quilt show next weekend!

Sue and Di with the raffle quilt on the front page of this week's Midweek .

 

Mackay Regional Show 2014

Some of the winners at the Show. 

Marlena Hadley First Place Patchwork and Quilting Small Quilt and also Champion Best Exhibit of the Show.

Di Hope First Place Patchwork & Quilting Wall hanging. Also Champion Best Machine Quilting Patchwork & Quilting

Joan Flack First Place Patchwork & Quilting Full Size Quilt. Also Champion, Best use of Appliqué and Champion Best Use of Colour.

Fay Cole, High Achievement, Patchwork and Quilting Full Size Quilt. Also, Fay Cole & Lynn Hammet Champion, Best Hand Quilting.

 

Brenda Goggin's Burst of Illusion First Place Patchwork and Quilting Collaborative

 

Brenda Goggin also received Second Place Patchwork and Quilting Collaborative.

 

Joan Flack Third Place Patchwork and Quilting Full Size Quilt.

 Margaret Peterson Second Place Patchwork and Quilting Small Quilt

Linda Warriner Third Place Patchwork and Quilting Small Quilt

Linda Warriner High Achiever Encouragement Award Patchwork and Quilting Small Quilt

Charmaine Nott High Achiever Patchwork and Quilting 

Di Hope Second Place Patchwork and Quilting Full Size Quilt.

 Di Hope Second Place Wall Hanging.

Wednesday 18th June 2014

It was beautiful weather wise in Bucasia today and we had quite a number of ladies present and of course "Show and Tell"

Faye Cole showed off her beautiful "Strippit" quilt which was a block of the month kit.

The fabrics were quite different, with colours that Faye has not usually put together. Here is a closer look at the design and fabrics.

Lesley has made some cute little turtles whose tummy is made of a cleaning cloth for the tablet/Ipad screens.

And I have finally finished my "C U in Bali " quilt.

 

Wednesday 11th June 2014

Another lovely day at Bucasia.We have such talented ladies in our group. Thanks Elaine for taking the photos for me in my absence.

Barbara has made some new cushions with bling. Barbara is fast becoming the bling Queen.

  

Brenda proudly shows off her pieced quilt.

Julie with her  adaption of the fish quilt.

 Nancy has finished a beautiful table cloth.

Another quilt of love completed. 

Wednesday 4th June 2014

Not a lot of "Show and tell" this week.

Beth has finished her fish quilt, lovely Beth. I think that only leaves Helen out of the group to finish hers. No pressure Helen.

 Joan has finished another quilt, this time it is "The owl and the pussycat went to sea". Gorgeous Joan.

Wednesday 28th May 2014

Lesley's Block Of the Month

Lesley's BOM this month was 'Check the Rainbow" 

New block ready to cut

Squaring and cutting the block

The block lined up ready for sewing

Lesley showed us how to pin the block together to ensure our seams were accurate.

 Lesley also showed us her double pins, thanks heaps for the demo Lesley.

Tah Dah! Show and tell this week. 

Barbara showed off the new bag she has made.

Barbara's bag was made using the technique Linda has used for her craft roll (Barbara was attracted by the bling)

Linda also bought along her finished quilt for Show and Tell.

Di showed of her wall hanging, made with her new couching foot.

Liz bought along 3 new quilts for our Quilts of Love stash.

 Diana has finished her 'Batik Swirls' (Monkey Wrench) quilt.

 

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.