November Quilting Weekend

Well it was an extremely hot weekend with temperatures up to 42 C in Sydney. Upstairs in our sewing space with our new tiny air conditioner it only got to 34 C and was just below 30 C for most of the time. Luckily the hottest time was on Sunday afternoon as we were about to stop anyway.

It was still a most productive and fun weekend, interspersed with hospital visits to see Surrey. He was very poorly and died a week or so later, hence the lateness of this post. We will miss his smiles, his music and his cooking on our quilting weekends.

We actually had 8 people working upstairs by lunch time on Saturday, 5 on Sunday.

I presented everyone with a copy of our book "Rainbow Connection Quilts - 2007-2009". If anyone would like a copy of this book just contact me or leave a comment here. They are $10 plus postage for non-members.

We have now finished Patricia's Cross Quilt and I'll send out a picture for the quilt book via email. You will be able to complete one DIY page in our book.

We arranged and joined the blocks for Marion's Sickle quilt. Because one block was not returned we had the wrong number of blocks. We decided to leave out two blocks and we will perhaps use pieces of those blocks for the corners of the borders yet to be added. We were amazed at how these blocks created more patterns when put together, especially if we did it without sashing.

Our next task was to finish off some of the Soft Blue Sampler blocks and arrange them on the design wall. There are three blocks still to come before we can put it all together but it looks great already.

Our long distance visitor this time was Jane from Toowoomba. It was great to see you Jane. Both Jane and Leonie stayed overnight.

We drew our next lucky dip and have drawn some Mr Men fabric. I will send that out to everyone and will email the instructions as soon as I have written them. I will also put up photos of the three quilts we are working on in the next post.