We had a very good turn out for this months meeting. lots of chatter, a wonderful guest speaker and lots of sewing accomplished. A wonderful number of quilts for show n tell, you might need to make a cuppa first...
First up was a lovely quilt by Bep, called Fantasy with magic 9 patch. She had it quilted by John Nielson and she was busy stitching the binding down at club day.
A scrappy quilt by Lesley McFarlane. It is made with scraps cut into 4.5 blocks. It was an idea from Griet Lombard. Lesley said that her scrap drawer is still full. I think we can all say that...
Flower Garden by Veronica. Pattern is by Sue Spargo and is celebrating her 20th Anniversary of her business and was stitched over 20 days, on line, with a new flower each day.
Twisted Ribbon block. This is by Beverly Casey. We were asked to bring along a UFO and this one was started in Tokoroa in the 1990's.
Perfect Form - Mannequin, pattern by Laura Heine and was put together by Jenny Harris in a class at Cottage Flair in Rotorua.
Woodland, pattern source is Sharon Keightley and stitched by Jenny Harris and she attended a class by Sharon to learn invisible machine applique.
A Double Wedding Ring large quilt and was pieced about 25 years ago and has been quilted by John Neilsen. Still needs to be bound and is someones UFO. Unfortunately they forgot to add their name to the paper label....
"Some Of My Favourite Florals" by Trish Souness and was quilted by John Neilsen.
This stunning quilt is by Julie Pratt and was hand stitched and took a year to complete.
"Kinky Korus" and is by Marie Greggains. It is for her 9yr old Grandaughter who enjoys her Maori Culture Studies.
Another colourful quilt by Frances H, called Circular Rainbow. The original idea came from a Laundry Basket Mystery Quilt 2022 and she added more blocks and graduated the colours to make it more rainbow like. These are 4 in blocks and Frances worked out using an old school graph book and some colour pencils.
A UFO of US Civil War Blocks by Rosalie Conder. She originally began making this quilt for her sister who passed away in 2016. She wanted to do a quilt in 3 colours and had been using EPP.
A mesh bag made by Carol B. It was a pattern in the newsletter.
This is a UFO from Carol B. and is called Edwardian Garden. It was started at a Arahina
Retreat and will be a wall hanging. She asked for advice on a border.
This is called Emily's 21st Quilt and was put together by Rosie Neilson. Emily picked the colours when Rosie was in Perth with her and she also added a couple more to it. She is very pleased with it and put most of it together at our spring retreat.
Pauline Walton put this together using a Jelly Roll
This stunning quilt is by Maureen and was made using orphan blocks to make something useful.
"Coffee n Cream" another by Maureen and was a 2022 club challenge pattern, but this time all her own work!
A UFO from Maria and she has used her French General Pieces.
Maria made this table runner, in fact she made two.
Donna Bradley made this large quilt, called Crumbs, for her Daughter and her Boyfriend. Never again she said, did not like using scraps. Looks wonderful.