The structure of the weekend worked better this time. On Saturday we all started making our blocks for our next mystery quilt. This is Jane's birds fabric and an Amish Cross block design. It was great to do it together as this allowed everyone to help everyone else and it meant that the issues with the instructions I had created were ironed out before they were posted.
On Sunday we hemmed the binding and attached the label on our first Scrappy Quilt which is another great group activity.
This time Leonie, Elaine, Linda, Mary, Robyn, Betty and our newest member Ruth came for long and short times during the weekend.
Leonie forgot her sweetpeas so has taken a photo so that we can all smell the virtual sweetpeas from her garden.
As usual, much fun was had by all with lots of chatting and food added to the quilting mix. Leigha, who is staying with me at the moment invited two of her friends for lunch and they rearranged our butterfly blocks into a more pleasing layout.
I will be posting out fabric in the next few days to those who have not yet received theirs by hand. I will email instructions to everyone too. I have now bought Electric Quilt 7 and am experimenting with creating our instructions using that software.
There will be a Rainbow Connection Quilters Christmas afternoon tea in December so if you have not received an email about that and would like to join us please let me know.
Happy Christmas and have fun with your patchwork and quilting from us all.
1 comment:
Hi,
My name is Heather Tucker and I heard about your group at a birthday lunch in Auckland today.
The idea of each member making a block with one piece of fabric sounds really interesting to me - I am new to quilting and have made a few bags! Well more than a few!
I was wondering how one wnet about joining a group such as this.
Many thanks
Heather Tucker,
Otorohanga, New Zealand
happyheather2009@yahoo.co.nz
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