What could it be? well meeting day is what it was. Boy oh boy have there been some things churning on behind the scenes while our groups have been in lockdown. The Cottage Management Committee have not been sitting on their hands but have been taking care of business and keeping everything 'Cottage' running. Thank you all, it was great to catch up with all the news via Sheila and Karen at our meeting.
Lots of members, lots of chatter and laughter and lots of wonderful projects to share.
Marie (hidden but looking at Wendy's phone - more on that later), Karen, Sandy and Wendy were very very busy, they were even doing a little stitching
Karen had her Japanese inspired Boro blocks along, there was quite a bit of fabric patting going on while discussing the benefits of sashing each block to set it off or simply joining them all together into one big piece.
Sandy & Di were chatting away, while stitching on their projects, Di just sighed and said, "Its been on the blog before, I still don't know what it is going to be when it grows up!!"
Wendy is stitching another couple of hundred hexies and had her completed dodecahedron box, complete with a cute little closure. You can see Wendy's box of hexies in the background. Put your glasses on and look closely!! promise they are there. Lots of beautiful pink this time around.
Karen W. also had her dodecahedron, not quite finished, still some decorative stitching to finish around the joins. Karen bought these fabrics a few years back but could never manage to bring herself to slice into them, along with never being quite convinced they 'played well' with other fabrics in other projects....we all know that feeling, so finally the perfect project for a happy ending.
Ailsa and Sue W were both working on their pieces, Ailsa continuing with her Sashiko, and Sue is working on her speciality of Japanese Ladies in Kimonos.
Sue A gratefully accepted 4 patched pieces stitched by Marion for the Zonta drainage bags Sue makes. Thanks Marion.
Our Lyn Ballinger Challenge this year was to create a pot holder featuring fruit or seeds,and this year we get to keep our challenge piece. Well in an effort to convince someone who isn't fond of potholders to take part (she keeps setting fire to the suckers) Sue A explained about a tutorial she had seen, where a pot holder from the dollar store and some ziplock bags was used to create a holder, well lo and behold, Sheila had the very same holder at the Cottage yesterday. Sheila had spied hers at a craft store while on holiday, and being the intrepid little stitcher she is, created her own.
Might make a cute little gizmo for the Novelties table at the Christmas Fair.
Talking of the Novelties table, more suggestions on shapes to use for Sue's Christmas tree lolly holder/tree decoration, christmas baubles, hearts, wreath? star. To see Sue's pattern and tutorial pop back to here. Marleen made some real cuties to share and I missed them, hopefully she will send some pics with the Thur pics...please Marleen.
Lainey arrived a little later into the meeting and promptly started knitting, of course we all wanted to know what she was up to so she gave us a demo..
Lainey has also been busy learning on her new long arm quilting machine, quilting up lovelies for our Charity Quilt stash, Karen was kind enough to hold them up for us all to enjoy.
Now anyone who is a facebook follower of quilting groups will probably have seen this great Tidy Tote, its all over the place at the moment and a real thing of organisational beauty to drool over. Its actually the brain child of a talented Aussie lass Anita Ellis from Hillside Quilting, follow the links for more info but can you imagine the excitement when our very own May doddled into our meeting with her own version.
