Blue Gum - Happy New Year

 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

This is a lovely little quilt by Heather. It started as a fun fabric strip swap at a retreat! Lovely.

Some fabric purchased in Japan was the inspiration for this quilt top by Glynis

A waistcoat/vest Glynis was working on and is now finished.

Next get together:  will be at the Blue Gum on Saturday 7 February 2026. Hope to see you there!

Blue Gum

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.

Heather working on her applique

Irene knitting a scarf for charity

Jean hand sewing on last of a binding.

Rita working on a very early hexagon project from 25 years ago and hoping very much to complete.

Lynne working on a pretty stitchery.

Liz working on her Christmas ornament stitcheries.

Cath working on her current project.

Show and Tell

Jean's lovely small quilt for any new small addition to the family. Pattern Zoe from Kitchen Table Quilting 

15 of us gathered at the Hotel Pennant Hills today for our last get together of the year.

Pennie managed to join us this time, she's been so busy and important! Here she is with Michelle, 'pretending' they like each other.

Maggie and Michelle

Irene, Ann and Heather

Heather and Marilyn

Glynis and Rita

Cath and Maureen

Jill, Penny and Lynne

This is Joy with her handwork. She is making a Princess Poppy (from the Trolls movie) headpiece for her Granddaughter.

Handwork:

 Ann was knitting a jumper for a child.

 Cath was sewing down a binding.

 Heather was creating circles

Irene was knitting a scarf for charity.

 Jill is in the process of making a hexi quilt.

 This is Joy's fabulous headpiece for her Granddaughter

 Lynne's working hard on her applique mini quilt.

Maggie had this amazing counted cross stitch.

 Marilyn was working on her hexagons.

Maureen was working on her bag pieces.

 Michelle continuing with her knitted shawl. The colours are beautiful.

 Pennie also knitting, another one of her famous jumpers for a Grandson. Soon the entire family will have one of these exceptional jumpers!

 Penny working on another Lucy Boston block. Only a few more to go she tells me.

Rita completing a section on her Hexi Monet's Garden quilt.

Glynis working on another hexagon. Only 17 more to go! The red is the last piece of a fat quarter I bought in Adelaide about 10 years ago.

Show and Tell:

A Christmas quilt from Rita we havn't seen before.

Cath 1

Cath 2

This is number 3 of 4 quilts Cath will be giving away to charity. The quilts will be auctioned to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation which places breast cancer nurses in communities around Australia.

A beautiful hexagon quilt which was gifted to Pennie by a friend. Hand pieced and hand quilted with fabrics probably from the 1940's era.

The front and back of Pennie's quilt as you go hexagon quilt. It's very pretty but unfortunately she has run out of old linen for the blocks at the moment.

This is Pennie's recently completed hexagon quilt with more than 12,000 tiny hexagons. It is exceptional and is a gift for a Granddaughter who enjoyed playing with the hexagons as a baby during the construction process.

Don't forget to bring your Bonnie Hunter old/new Mystery Quilt to the Blue Gum in January!