A New Skill!!

 On Wednesday .....
Jackie has finished her friends quilt. Its lovely, but Jackie found it really hard to work in colours and fabrics that were not her choice. It was made "quilt as you go" and she has made a great job of it. I am sure that the lady who asked for it to be made will be thrilled with it.

bottom right corner design was taken from a piece of the lady's art work, photocopied and traced out and reverse appliquéd 

 And then we had the start of the Celtic Block workshop -----

 Some had got further than others but everyone seemed to enjoy the evening

Quick Tip!!!

1) Only pin a small amount of the design down and start to sew in place, as the strips are cut on the bias they tend to stretch a bit and so all of your pinning will need to be moved along.

2) if you put your pins in the back of the work, your thread wont keep getting caught around the ends of the pins.

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Barbara was sewing some very small hexagons 

I know how old that blue fabric is!!

 Elizabeth was sewing down the binding on another celebration quilt gift

lots of pass times included

LOVE!

 And Monday's offering......

Well, it might just be me --- but it was so calm and quiet at group this morning!  I had had a very hectic weekend with Miss O staying for a few days. I am looking after her in three weeks whilst Mummy goes on a hen do, and I think she wanted to make sure I was not going to break her beautiful girl.

I didn't.

I get to do it all again soon.  YAY!

But back to Group.  It was just lovely. Some were tracing, some were pinning and some were stitching. There was chat and laughter but either I was in a stupor or it was... serene!

 Not everyone was using a pale background so transferring the pattern was a bit of a problem until some dressmakers carbon paper was produced and used to trace the pattern.

see what I mean about the pins?

 Ellen was getting on really well (swot!)

 And Di was adding fillers to her loops

A whole days work!!!

 I will show you the finished items soon.

Carol came in after her mornings Nordic walk to show us a similar technique, Italian Corded Quilting, which she first tried out a loooooong time ago at school. This was well admired and is in the "project for the future" folder.

And back to the camera problem. RUBBISH photo so I will try that again some other time!

I DO need a new camera.

 The new skill??

You may remember that we had been given an over-locker to add to the group equipment. Well we had it serviced and it sews like a dream.  I managed to un-thread it by accident (every over-lockers nightmare) but with a bit of a wriggle and tweak and with Pat's supervision I managed to re thread it and away we went. 11 pairs of shorts later ---

colourful and fun

Didn't have enough of any one fabric to make a pair, so each of the four pieces is different , and though I say it myself, they are FAB. Thank you to Jayne Smith for donating some of her fabric sampling. These will be sent overseas by St Mary's Church in Rushden via this charity  and if you wanted the pattern (which is so easy to make, especially if you use the over locker!) you can find it here

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I have collected the rest of the LINUS quilts to be passed over this week, and our totaliser shows 171 quilts made this time!!

A BIG WELL DONE AND THANK YOU GIRLS!!

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And for those of you who don't already know Our Carol has her own blog here . I have added it to the reading list, but stop by and say "Hello" .