Ladybug Pincushions, bags and other wonderful work

A little while back the Thursday night gals had a workshop sewing ladybug pincushions.  Lots of fun and laughter and lots of lovely pincushions, all bought to you courtesy of Debby and Letitia.

Letitia started the evening off with instructions, the girls were soon hard at it with finished ladybugs soon completed, along with Denise making sure she had the instructions all written down.

June, pleased with her little bug, gave his tail a tickle.

Time for a coffee break and then on to the flower bases, well a bug has to have a flower doesn't she?

Thank you so much Di for making and donating this fabulous 'Toytime' Quilt to STEMM for their Christmas in July.  They made over $2,000.00.
Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

A few weeks back Maree bought this amazing wall hanging in to share with the group.
One of the families homes has a lot of old style fireplaces that are no longer used, thanks to the wonders of modern heating, and so a request was made for something to hang in front of a fireplace.  Maree came up with this beauty.

Janet and Ann took part in a workshop with Jenny at the Angel last week and created these handy dandy zippered bags, lots of uses as the sizing can easily be changed.

Trunk Show and Tell from Thursday night Patchwok Group

As you have no doubt noticed, we have not had any news from our Thursday night ladies since leader Lorraine resigned to go live in Tassie via a lovely holiday in USA.
We had an e-mail from Lorraine last week, she is missing us all, but having a great time visiting and her long time pen pal just loves the quilt that Lorraine made  for her.

Debbie has now very kindly taken over the job of taking piccies of the Thursday night girls work and frolics for us, and giving us an informative insight into what the girls have achieved.  Thank you so much Debbie, we all appreciate your efforts.

Thursday night we had two new girls arrive to meet us and see what we do.  Welcome Heather and Jules, we hope you both enjoyed our night.

Jenny had a great idea last week and suggested we do a 'trunk show and tell' once a month and she nominated Letitia as our first guinnea pig.  For those of you that know Letitia we all had a fun night with her stories and wonderful treasures she shared with us.

Letitia showed us a very colourful cat quilt that she had made for her mother-in-law when she was caring for her.

There is a jar quilt she made for her youngest daughter.

An Egyptian quilt for her son.  All of which are well worn and loved.

a closer view of a panel on the Egyptian quilt

She bought crocheted treasures like the shawl she made for her Granny.  It was worn every Sunday when Granny went to church.

She made the pink block quilt from warm, cozy cuddly fabric.

She showed us her grunge dolls and Santas that she loves to make and they are all gorgeous.

She made grunge sunflowers a few weeks ago and they are great.  Letitia is a very clever friend.  She even showed us some folk art that she has done.  

 Letitia loves xmas and she has made so many gorgeous xmas pieces.

There were quite a few stitcheries for a few different quilts that are so close to being finished. 

I think Letitia will be very busy when she retires, she will have lots of fun finishing these projects off.

Thanks Letitia for sharing your treasures with us and she has lots more to show and tell, maybe next year.  We had a great night.

Also thanks to Marlene and Jenny for the great job they did at holding up the quilts etc. 

More piccies of Letitia's wonderful work

Wow, what a visual feast!! Thank you all so much for making it possible to share. - A

Row x Row Reveal for Thursday night girls

Another wonderful bundle (well several actually) of lusciousness to drool over made their appearance with the last group's row x row reveal.  The Thursday nighters had 9 participants in their row x row, hence the later reveal date.
 The night started off with Marleene and Lorraine scooting the screens from storage into the Atrium and pinning up each flimsey to be, Marleen had them all sorted and arranged in order to cut down on time and she quickly got down to work.

It was a bit of a different story with Lorraine though, she just couldn't help herself, picking up her bag, and trying to sneak little peaks, Marlene gave it up and let her pin her own reveal, 

 

I can tell you there was some excitement in that Atrium............and it was catching, just ask any of the arriving Botanical Gardens members.

Finally all the rows were pinned, and the girls allowed in to find and admire their Row x Rows, there were such gasps of delight and much ooohhing and aaahing but one comment came over loud and clear.  'Yes, I like that!', it was a sentiment echoed around the room.

DIANE.

 

 Di was more than delighted with her rows, they are to be a wall hanging in her sewing room, her own row at the top says it all, 'I love sewing,'

A closer look at that cute embroidered sewing machine and the Teddy.

JENNY
Jenny started her rows off with appliqued teapots for a high tea theme, her last row of hearts has the sweetest little stitchery as a center pannel.

 

 

Just had to show you those cup cakes, they had Jenny rubbing her tummy they look so yummy.

MAUREENE

Maureene, started her rows off with a traditional floral design appliqued across the width of the row, the theme was continued througout,  with the last row being a lovely vine with heart shaped leaves and these rather beautiful fussy cut flowers with the vine spilling over onto the tiled side blocks.

JANE B

Jane B chose an interesting pointed pattern to applique across her row, at first glance almost a Grandma's Flower Garden, but coming to points in the center instead of the traditional hexagon shapes. The flower row used the traditional Grandmas Garden along a vine, the shape of the leaves being echoed in the 9 Patch blocks on the next row.

LETITIA

Letitia,  started her rows with beautiful angels on the wing, her second row is the cutest flowers using suffolk puffs and buttons with a beautiful sentiment stitched among the blooms.

JANE

Jane wanted a quilt to celebrate her Daughters 21st Birthday Party, Jane had used a blue and silver colour scheme with the theme of 'Masquerade'  for her Daughters party, and asked for it to be repeated in her rows.

 

A note book was supplied for the girls to record their thoughts and design elements as they went, a wonderful idea that everyone took full advantage of.

 

 Lorraine's entry and sketches

 Debby went full on for her page in the book. 

Chatting of Debby, she wasn't able to make it to the reveal, but here she is at the Breast Cancer Fundraiser.

  and here is Debby's lovely lemon row x row.

 

More Suffolk Puffs in the flower boxes, cared for by Teddies holding hearts.

JUNE
There was a great deal of merriment around June's quilt, with many a story, but the one that stood out was of a Christmas party game, where you were able to lay claim to anothers present, a piece of fabric, June really wanted one particular piece and managed to pounce on it early on in the game, but disaster...........it got claimed.......but then, sneakily, Marleen re-claimed it as her turn at the end of day and gave it to June, all's well that ends well, June put the piece to good use in her row,

here they are, having a good laugh over the memory

Marleen then told us about getting inspiration from one of the girls in the Wednesday Row x Row to fussy cut a picture for the center of her star row that she did for June.
Marleen didn't do a row x row as such, she was backup for anyone who was away on hols and did several of the rows.
The row above the stars, is a 9 Patch row, how cleverly disguised, look carefull and you will see the huts are the 9 patch!
June was very excited about her rows, wouldn't mind betting the quilt is just about done by now!.

LORRAINE

And of course some one has to be last, sorry Lorraine, you did a beautiful job of pinning your rows up, wonder if that will be the finished layout?.  Lorraine's own row is the row running vertically down the side of the screen.

A closer look at one of Lorraines rows, how neat are those tiny 1" squares on point.
Hope you all enjoyed looking at these wonderful quilts to be, cant't wait to see them all finished next year.