What a great weekend we have had! We finished Marion's Sickle quilt and I will be delivering it to Bezzina House on Tuesday this week together with Patricia's quilt that we finished a few months ago.
Jane brought along an antique quilt she had recently bought. It looks and feels fantastic and is made entirely of medallions without any backing so it is see through. It drapes so beautifully. Robyn brought along a lesson in using freezer paper for appliqué. I will put up some instructions for that in the near future.
Evelyn made a patchwork birthday cake for me. Such fun! Thank you Evelyn.
Of course as per usual we enjoyed lots of food together and after dinner on Saturday night some of us stayed up long enough to watch a DVD - 'Julie and Julia'. Jane came down from Toowoomba and stayed over for Saturday night.
Our first task on Saturday morning was to bind Marion's quilt to finish it off. This job is always done quickly with a crowd of people around the table chatting as they go.
Liz (from NZ) was our newest member this time and used the treadle machine to work on a quilt she was making. Liz was really excited to receive a text to say her new grandson Callum was born today.
Our biggest project for the weekend was the Soft Blue Sampler. We progressed from this...
To this...
Next time we meet we will be backing, binding and finishing this one off. It is actually looking so stunning that we might even raffle it rather than donate it to Bezzina House. We have two spare blocks and will make matching cushions from those to go with the quilt.
Great work ladies, we are really achieving quite a lot in our global quilting group.
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