Three finishes in one week is a bit of a record

We've never finished so many quilts at one time.

Last night Elaine delivered Robyn's Retro to me all finished so this morning I photographed it and am about to label it.

Carol won the quilt. Congratulations Carol! She had decided to keep the quilt and donate the money to charity.

And another finished quilt

I finished hemming the binding of our Pink Flowers in a Blue Sky quilt yesterday and today Kim and I photographed it outside using the hanging system that Surrey devised. We just have to remember to pin to the hangers in the right place and use an umbrella to keep the sun off the camera.

I put it into our draw generator and Linda has won it. I will let you know whether she would like to donate money or the quilt to charity.

November Gathering

We four (Karen W., Carol, Elaine and Betty) had a most productive day on Friday.

Our first task was to label and photograph our Peaches and Cream quilt. This meant the quilt was complete and Christine won it but I have still not heard from her if she would prefer to donate the quilt or money to charity.

Carol spent lots of time quilting the blue 9-patch quilt and I sewed on the binding, finishing the hand stitching yesterday. It is now labelled but not yet photographed. A job for next time.

We all spent time placing trimmed blocks for the Blue and Brown Spots quilt. It now has the sashing cut and some rows stitched together ready for next time we get together.

No, the orange at the top has nothing to do with this quilt but is for the quilt on the back of the design wall.

We have cut the next borders for Christine's Windmills and they are ready to attach if anyone would like that task.

Then the great reveal of Ann's aboriginal blocks. As we were putting them up a wonderful zig-zag appeared. We thought the orange inserted in this zig-zag might highlight the orange in the focus fabric that we were not allowed to use in the blocks themselves. Next tasks here are to trim the blocks and add the orange sashing to form the zig-zags.

Of course the day of sewing activities was highlighted by a wonderful lunch and afternoon tea and lots of chatter at all times.

We drew out another mystery fabric and that has been sent out. Because there was not much variety in the colours of the mystery fabric we also added another piece to give you more colour selection for your block.

Let me know if you'd like to come for a pop-up quilting day. Also let me know if you'll be here on 1 December for our final gathering of the year. So far there are lots of members not coming so we might not have one.