Six ladies in person and another four on Zoom

 Yesterday we enjoyed our first gathering for 2024. Our first task was to take tacking out of 3 quilts finished in the last few months and iron on labels then take photos. 

This is Elaine's applique flowers. 

A few of us met to arrange some orphan blocks for this quilt and the one below.

I will be keeping the pink doiley quilt but the other two are up for grabs if you would like either of them. Otherwise we will donate them to an appropriate cause.

Karen, Elaine, Stephanie, Glenda, Kathryn and I spent a great time debriefing holiday activities and issues and enjoyed a wonderful Feast of Fools for lunch and afternoon tea. 

In the meantime we discussed our two outstanding projects and now have Carol's ballerinas ready to sandwich and Lynette's aboriginal print ready for me to write some instructions for and send out fabric pieces. I'll get there. Hint - if you have a favourite star block, find it and test it. If you don't, do a bit of googling to find one you like.

Then it was time for our 3 o'clock zoom with Heather and Lynette. We also had two visitors on Zoom - Chooky from Coonamble and Lou from NZ. I meet these two guests on Chookyblue's zooms along with many others from an international audience.

A lovely beginning to 2024. I hope we are able to continue.