At Last!!!

 Bridget has finished something!!!

An they were worth waiting for don't you think?

Her gold-work panel

 And this is from the stunning stitch class that we did at group last year. She kept adding to it and then was so please it will take pride of place in her home. Well done Bridget - beautiful !

 Jan has made a rather nice bag that will be gifted this week. The cat fabric was a gift from Eileen.

 Pauline is stitching a lovely winter panel

 Shirley is using her lovely scissor keeper and is on a mission

 making these pretty scissor charms

 and is keeping all her beads and bits in this pretty bag.

 She has offered to show us how to make them on our "Four Corners " day in June. I think we should take her up on that, don't you ladies?

 Ellen is stitching some pretty panels that will make Easter gifts

 Maureen ........ well Maureen was not doing much that was constructive today!

one minute it was fine and the next - a nest!

 Linda has started ( a bit later than everyone else) her version of the "Hussuff"

 Brenda is working down her stash and is binding a larger boys Linus quilt.

 June has used her very nice embroidery machine to decorate some linen

so delicate

 and is now working on a chunky log cabin that she think will end up as a cushion

 Muriel has another purple Foundation Pieced block to add to her collection

 And Glenys' little embroidery is progressing nicely

 Fran has a commission piece for her church. This will be one panel added to a piece that will hang behind the font

some will be embroidered and some appliqué

 Jane is making decorations for an upcoming wedding reception

 We seem to have quite a few paper pieced projects going on around the room. They do make for easily portable projects.

 Chris has started on next years Linus quilts using some novelty fabrics

trust me - it will take her a year!

 Lynda has made several of these project bags and gave the as Christmas gifts, but she decided that she needed something to carry her Hexagon project in, so ran one up for herself.
A really useful little bag and she found the pattern over on Pinterest where you can find an idea for ..... anything!!!

Some of our ladies are in an on-line Challenge group . Today was their "reveal" day for the February Challenge

Jo's - blogged here

 Angie - who never likes messing around with bits is excelling herself with these Mini's

Angie's

Carol had a bit of a hiccup to start with but came through in the end

Carol's blogged here

 Lynda's is really a mini ending 8" square

 Lesley took the Pineapple Log Cabin quite literally!

Lesley's blogged here

 And we now await the instructions for next months Challenge. Its only a bit of fun and you can dip in and out as you please. Pop over here if you fancy joining them
 The pattern came from this blog post

 The last few Linus quilts have been added to the pile., with maybe a few more on Wednesday evening. To date we have 168 Linus quilts to be delivered next week!
I'm not sure if this is a record but as always, you ladies have excelled yourselves, Thank You.

As we are on the Charity theme, you will all know that we are going to fill as many shoe boxes as we can this year, with them being sent off mid November. We have a list of items that can be added to the boxes and this includes woolly hats.  We have found this free pattern and someone is in production, (trying to use all those bits up). If you fancy having a go we will collect the hats up any-time during the year.

and here is a simple knit pattern if that's more your thing.

Here is a picture of the bottle bags that Helen is teaching us on our March all day

The requirements list is on the diary page and we also have pictures of some of the other project days that have been arranged.