Tuesday 18 February 2014

Make a cup of Tea!

 And put your feet up. Keep going to the bottom too!

Linus (or Dorothy) day is upon us, and needless to say, the room turned into a sweat shop hive of activity.
Like the Wednesday meeting, we were concentrating on crib size quilts and everyone got straight on with production.

 There are lots of pics so I wont blurb on
(these are just the good photos - I do need a new camera! - maybe for my birthday?)






 Chris was in charge of the Quilt Count
 Lots of appliqué



 Ena sitting back and admiring,  after some "technical" problems with her machine.

 Ellen has been hand embroidering

love the centre print fabric!













 Christine has been playing with her embroidery machine




 So that was just a selection of the FINISHED quilts for the day
Mo Smith from Project Linus visited in the afternoon and took away 60 completed quilts, and we have about the same amount the bindings are being sewn down, and then Wednesday quilts have still to be added to the count. So a good day of production, don't you think?

I will give you a final count next month.

If you have a quilt that needs finishing off, could we please have it back by 19th March, and we can get them over to Mo for delivery.

Thank you to all who have contributed to this annual shindig.

A BIG Thank you to  Creative Grids who very kindly helped us out with Hobbs Heirloom Bleached Wadding that was lovely and soft, and easy to use.



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Have you seen this months Popular Patchwork magazine??

Congratulations!! to Carol Wawra on winning FIRST prize in this competition. 
If you have seen the quilt in person you will appreciate the gorgeous colours.
I will get her to bring it in so you can all take a peek.


WELL DONE CAROL!

5 comments:

  1. Great fun again girls. I am sure the quilts will give a proper hug where needed.

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  2. Well done Carol, that's a really colourful piece!

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  3. Saw Carol's quilt in the magazine but didn't realise she was our Carol Wawra!! Well done and fantastic colours.

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  4. What a lovely quilt.
    We had a great day and some wonderful quults

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  5. meant to say what wonderful baby quilts.
    And the quilt in the magazine in lovely and such pretty colours. Congratulations to Carol W

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