November together again

 I'm having a lot of difficulties with zoom lately and hope that those who missed out last weekend are not too cross with me.

Our achievement was to arrange the orange squares in an acceptable design then Elaine trimmed them all to a standard size. This can now be sewn together in December. We did not progress with our medallion quilt although we did discuss a lot of options.

Our last three Rainbow Strip quilts were returned and labelled so now we can donate our pile of 8 quilts to the Chris Obrien Lighthouse Cancer Day Care centre.

Elaine gave us a great show and tell of her latest creations.

We then decided to pull out all the remaining fabrics from our basket and noticed that some of them go really well together. Deana's pretty fabric is not in this pile but has some matching partners too.

Then we decided not to choose one of these for the Christmas/New Year break but to use up some of the scraps that we know we all have. The instructions have been emailed out and Stephanie has completed her 16 blocks already. There is one 'pale' and one 'rich' in each of the 8 colours listed in the instructions.

She sent me the image saying "So here we r. NO RULES as not instructed"

I hope everyone has fun creating their blocks. If you are not able to make all 16 that is fine but the exercise in colour and relaxed cutting is great in itself. All those returned to me will be put together into quilts in the new year. They are due here by our February get together.

Our October gathering

 Quite a lot was achieved on Saturday as well as quite a lot of eating. We four regulars were there and were kept busy. Stephanie and Karen made their mosaic blocks while Elaine did some trimming of her blocks with my very large ruler. Then we all set to trimming and sewing the Bear's Paws.

After lunch Naz and her Mum Jamilla arrived for the afternoon and Naz took these lovely photos for us.

We decided that Jamilla needed a quilt so presented her with one of the Rainbow ones. We might even see Naz and Jamilla again at our gatherings.

We were able to put together the Bear's Paw border on our medalion and it can now grow when decisions are made.

We also put our Mosaic blocks on the design wall. When put up aligned in the normal way they looked far too boring but with a bit of offsetting and turning it now looks quite cool. We still have a few blocks to come in so will wait until next time to make further decisions.

We might even get these last two quilt tops done before the end of the year!

No new fabric draw yet. We should have asked Jamilla or Naz to do that but of course, I forgot.

We had our regulars attend via Zoom and were able to catch up on news and 'show and tell' from others.

News from Jeanette in WA

 Just a few pics of our Hanging. Yet again a great day with over 600 viewers through the door. We spent all day Saturday setting up, Sunday open to the public & Sunday evening pulling it all down again. Some very weary bodies today. 

Around 2 edges of the rec centre we have what are called "Rooms" set up as individual displays.... Christmas  room, Crochet room, From our beginning in 1996 to Now  room, Community quilts room & mine was Hexie room as they call me the Hexie Queen

We don't realise till each Triennial Hanging, just how clever our members really are. 

Wow what a show!

You can even see another member's view of the same show here. It is amazing how two people focus on a different selection of quilts.

I think the updating issues are fixed

 This morning I opened my blogs and there were all my friends popping up on the side with their latest entries.

I hope it now continues to sync correctly.

Problems with Blogger

 I have noticed that for the last few weeks my side bar of blog links is not updating so I am not seeing new posts from others when they are posted.

Please accept my apologies if I seem to be ignoring you.

Show and Tell from Elaine

 Elaine says: "These are all the quilts that I have donated this year, just not sure what ones I gave to Sutherland Hospital and which went to the cancer clinic."

Such a lovely lot of colour. Thanks Elaine. You are quite the patchworker.

Instructions for Mosaic block

 

Collect:

• mosaic focus fabric supplied - F
• orange fabric supplied - O
• your choice fabric - A - which must match one of the paler colours in the focus fabric - any pale colour or tone on tone.

Cut:

Sections as per the drawing and lay them out as in the drawing and photograph. Remember that the measurements must include 1/2" seam allowance on each piece.

Construct:

You will need to sew the pieces together in sections  that create straight 1/4" seams (see below). Press all seams to the orange for the sections.

When attaching sections to the mosaic piece press seams towards the mosaic.

Your finished block should be 14 1/2" and returned untrimmed. Remember to include your stamp addressed envelope if you live in Australia.