A weekend with sewing friends

 On Saturday it was our first Quilting get together for 2026. Unfortunately it was 43C at mine and the house (with air con) was 29C for the day.

My day started at 6:30 with a zoom invitation from Chooky's group. So even before Karen and Elaine arrived I'd had a few hours working mainly on my latest quilt.

This is a typical view of the screen during our all day zooms - people are often not looking at the screen because they are in another part of the room stitching, or out watering lawns or whatever. However there is always a lot of background chatter.

Karen and Elaine arrived for our session together but Elaine had to go back home because she was suffering from the heat even when sitting right in front of the air con.

So Karen and I gate crashed Chooky's group again and chattered away while we discussed options for our next group quilt and also options for easy projects for my grand girls to sew.

One such option was suggested by Stephanie in our own little group zoom and before we rejoined Chooky's group I had one made. It is a really easy drawstring bag.

Jeanette sent through some photos of her latest projects completed for Christmas.

I really like the bonbon gift bags. They could be quite handy and such fun.

By the time my day ended I was exhausted with the heat and gave up on zoom by about 5:30 but I did get all my quilt blocks completed.

Today I was on zoom again at 6:30 and was able to spend the time trimming the blocks then sewing them together. Such a lot of work done by so many people in such hot weather.