Christmas Cheer from Jeanette

 Jeanette has sent through pictures of the some of her Christmas sewing.

Some draw-string bags to fill with chocolates or other gifts..

More Christmas trees with glittery tinsel on them and decorative stitching.

Some table centres...

Strings of bunting.

Her lovely Briar Rose quilt.

Our final gathering for 2022

 Last weekend we had our final get together for the year and rather than continue with our group project I held a Mystery Christmas Workshop. We all made a casserole carrier and were really pleased with the results.

After we'd all finished those we then filled our afternoon with other little projects. 

Stephanie's expertise is always appreciated when machines need fixing!

The mini Christmas trees were quite a hit and Jeanette (who could not be with us) made some of her own at home.

Of course all our activities were made more merry with our usual delicious lunch and afternoon tea. Would you believe 3 people brought pavlova makings. Yum! We only ate one lot though.

Merry Christmas everyone! See you again in January.

Jenny's Christmas Creations - for sale

Jenny makes beautiful journals from old Golden Books and has some for sale...

They make perfect gifts and all are Christmas titles. The original covers and pages are interleaved with decorated journal pages. They are selling for $25 each plus postage.

If you are interested in purchasing any please just leave a comment below and I'll pass your contact details on to Jenny.

 

Karen's latest finishes

 Karen writes...

I was intending to bring the finished baby coverlet to our November get-together but took the opportunity of Mike being here this past week to get him to take it back to Darwin. It is for his latest graddaughter Fleur. It only has two layers (a floral cotton backing) to make it more useful in Darwin's climate.

I also made two hot-dish cosies for Rick from 2 flannelettes and and a dark blue cotton and two layers of batting. Top-stitching the 4 layers resulted in my machine's tension going haywire and I've had to take it for servicing. So I've now got three weeks without my machine. Still, I've got plenty of other things to do till I get it back.

Last night's finish for Betty

 I'm pleased with my latest finish.

I Believe

A cancelled weekend

 Unfortunately I had to cancel our last get-together to go to Mum in hospital (she is 99 and having heart issues).

Jeanette sent lots of pics from her group's Stay at Home Retreat quilting day. She was going to zoom in from there.

I think I like the heart one best but I also like the starry one too. Val, how great that you are still working hard and sharing your talents.

What a crowd of happy quilters who are producing amazing work. Thanks Jeanette.