Blue Gum Hotel
A great day was had, happily stitching and chatting away.
Cath was making final fabric choices on her hexagon beauty.
Show and Tell
Rita
Completed two (2) colourful quilts to donate for children in the 'Hope in a Suitcase' project.
Rita's third quilt was for the husband of a friend and made from some of her friend's dresses.
Next get together will be Saturday 6 June at the Blue Gum!
Handwork
Cath
Cath was busy this month sewing down the binding on some small quilts for charity, stitching down her applique (a Michele Marvig design) and contemplating fabric choices on another ufo.
Hi everyone and welcome to a brand new year.
Very pleasant day with 6 of us in attendance.
Hand Work
Irene was working on another scarf for charity. It's a pattern where you increase at the ends of the rows and the yarn was soft and pretty!
Heather is working on her long term project. Beautiful applique.
Marilyn is working on another crochet temperature rug. The blocks were quite small and the colour chart was interesting! Marilyn has kept a log of days of the week and temperatures and weather status as well.
Cath was working on the handles for a new bag, in purple of course!
Rita was working on her large floral hexagons.
Show & Tell
First a woven bag made of t-shirt yarn by one of Rita's daughters. Very clever!
Next are four (4) of Selina's completed quilt tops. Selina has been busy experimenting with techniques plus creating with scraps and orphans.
Selina has used a tutorial from The Questioning Quilter for the first 2 examples and I think it's the Disappearing Pinwheel. Please let me know Selina if this isn't the correct tutorial!
https://youtu.be/MLHNvfbHW5U?si=oDEqqIp7dbgGMjGW
No 1
No 3
Is the Plaidish Quilt from The Kitchen Table Quilter. It is a free pattern available here https://kitchentablequilting.com/products/plaid-ish-scrap-quilt-tutorial I've had this one on my to do list for some time.
No 4 is comprised of some blocks not used in a previous project and put together for perhaps a wall hanging.
Cath no 2 is a block in progress with a lot of fussy cutting. Was a project started in a workshop with Chris Jurd. More of these beauties to come.
Next get together at the Blue Gum will be Saturday 5 July 2025. We look forward to seeing you then.
It was great today to see so many smiling faces at the Blue Gum as 9 of us sat chatting and stitching and had a lovely time.
The Hand Work
Marilyn was joining her hexagons into dark and light rounds.
It was a perfect day to sit and sew/crochet. The sky was grey and there were heavy downpours of rain. Much chatting and admiring of Emma's yarn which unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of.
Cath had four quilts to share with us and she was very busy binding.
This is the first of Cath's quilts; it's a Sarah Fielke design all in Tula Pink Fabrics.
Number 2 - This was a delightful quilt which we all admired. It's called Balderdash by Emma Jean Jansen.
Number 3 - Can't remember what this one was called but it was great. Was a kit bought in Launceston some time ago and put together a bit differently than the original pattern suggested.
Number 4 - This one looked great too. It had ships in the strips.
Last was an eye-spy quilt from Rita for a young relative (I think) in Melbourne.
Here are a couple of close ups of the fabrics:
Perhaps we'll see you next time.
It was a very pleasant day with 6 of us chatting away merrily.
Show and Tell
Rita made this cute quilt for a niece.
Stephanie is working on her pretty pink wrap.
Close up of her stitching and hexagon embellishment.
