Our Birthday Giveaway and the Christmas Fair

We have some lovely prizes to give away to some lucky readers, so do join in the fun. 

If you are having trouble or are unable to leave a comment, just send an e-mail to buderim dot patchwork @gmail dot com and I will transfer your comment to the blog. Oh and the word dot means a full stop, can't be putting addresses out there can we now?   all that spam!..........don't ask how I know........

Cottage members are all busily putting the finishing touches to the items available for sale and finalising plans for the Christmas Fair this weekend, with 13 Groups our Fair is a huge affair, with visitors coming from near and far to snaffle a goodie or two or ten.  There are also various crafters and stall holders in the Memorial Hall next door and more stalls on the front lawn and the lawns between the Hall and the Cottage, Huge!, just Huge!

For a  look at the type of things offered for Sale at the Cottage, go to our first post and just scroll down
Hope to see you at the Fair!

Our Birthday Celebrations Begin.....

We are all so excited, we are running our Birthday Celebration Giveaway for a week, from now 12.36a.m.  - yeah, I know, I missed the start off, was supposed to be nice and neat, 12.00...........oh well, from now, on  Friday 20th November until 11.00p.m. Friday 27th, our actual Birthday.
Now why are we running our celebrations for a week? well we really want to give everyone a chance to enter and win one of our great prizes, there will be some of these,....

Mini Project Patterns with all that you will need to complete the project,

 

There are 10, yes 10 of the Sue Andrew Patterns with Charm Packs of 4" squares to get you going on the project.  Sue wrote the patterns for her 4" Charm Packs.

There are various bibs and bobs such as these fabric pretties, there is this terrific tea towel, curtesy of Pam, and other little fabric packs in all guises

and then of course there are gee gaws, gadgets and gizmos, all to be packed up into little bundles and posted off to the lucky winners.

There will be 12prizes in all, and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the blog.
We will be using the Random Number Generator to pick the winners, if however, I manage not to be able to get the generator to work - all things are possible in my world - Your names will be put into something pink and pretty - possibly, if there are lots of names, a pink pudding basin, well, it is pink! otherwise it will be a little pink jug, and it is a little pink jug, so please send a comment, how embarrasement to have to use a little pink jug, it would only take two names...........oh, yes, and Sheila, our group leader will select the winners.

One of our members tried to leave a comment on the last giveaway and was unable, now I know that can happen, but I don't know why...........so as an extra there is an e-mail address that you can send your comments to, and if possible your comments will then be posted to the blog.  The email address is buderim dot patchwork @gmail dot com.

So Good Luck to everyone, I hope you all enjoy the fun!

The first Row x Row sandwiched and our Birthday Giveaways

Lorraine H, leader of the Thursday night group was busily sandwiching her Row x Row  at yesterdays meeting, making full use of the clamps we recently purchased.

 Just an aside for those who are not locals, that sepia print behind the tables, that is a print of a sketch of the original home of  Buderim Craft Cottage..........its rather an interesting story of the birth and growth of the 'Cottage' as it's affectionally called, will have to fill you in one day.

'Scuze the digression, the clamps are easy to use with a squeeze closed action

To open just squeeze the release trigger under the top handle as Lorraine is doing in this pic.

As you can see the clamps open pretty wide, certainly wider than needed to use with the quilt pinning tables, all we need now is to have the tables raised to make pinning easier.

  The clamps are in our Library, and are not only for use at the cottage, but can also be loaned out for a week.

Lorraine kindly folded back her sandwich to show the plastic table top, no more pins digging into the tables, and how about that backing, isn't it the cutest, Lorraine got it from Hancocks..........on a freight free promotion!...........ya gotta love Hancocks!

No Show and Tell yesterday, the Christmas Fair is on next weekend, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November, everyone is just taking a breather or hurridly putting in the last stitches of just one more goodie for sale.  If you are in our neck of the woods, do pop in and say Hi, we would love to meet you 'in the flesh'.

Oh yes, almost forgot.................Our giveaway starts tomorrow and will run until the following Friday, the 27th, our official birthday, we are giving ourselves a birthday party at the cottage on Friday morning, with cake and all, yum.

Wow, you should see the goodies I have sitting on my desk, all for you lucky readers, there are patterns, patterns with hand dyed charm packs to start you off, mini project patterns with everything you need to complete it, oh and a few other things as well..........can't tell you everything now can I,

Will let you know the 'rules' of how to enter tomorrow....

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.

We Have A Winner.......or two actually

We have two winners for the Apron Giveaway! Joy was the first to guess an anniversary but was only half right with her guess of 10 years and Tozz also had a guess of an anniversary, labeling it a special anniversary, yep, on the 27th November we will have been blogging for one year, and what a year of beautiful quilts the girls have had to show and share.

As a celebration we will be having lots of giveaways, patterns - from other designers as well as from one of our members, mini packs of hand dyes, and ..................well that's enough to be revealing dontcha think lots of giveaways because there are lots of us

Both Tozz and Joy are Gum Tree Designers, so girls, send me your snail mail addy and a hot pink apron will be scooting off to your homes.  I hope that you both enjoy them.

Its not always just about the quilts,

..although we did have some lovely quilts for Chanetlle (Show and Tell) today, Lorraine started us off with her completed Tessellated T's.

Lorraine has had these Japanese prints in her stash for quite awhile, they were a bit of a mistake she told us, after buying them she discovered that she really didn't like Japanese prints after all, and so they sat at the back of the cupboard, awaiting inspiration, and finally, along it came, the perfect pattern to use her fabrics and create a quilt she loves that will now live on Lorraine's sofa.

As so often happens when a family member spies a goodie that you have created, they want one too, and this was the case with the bag that Lyn made for the Lyn Ballinger Challenge.  This little cutie here,

a request was put in for one just the same, well, Lyn said 'not the same but similar' and here it is, front and back views, can't you just see Lyn and her Daughter out shopping together with their complimentary totes?

Helen had just picked up her Quilt WIP from Fiona, who has quilted it with the cutest little heart pattern.

Helen is eagerly awaiting the birth of a Great Grandson, he will be arriving soon but Helen has promised to bring the quilt  back for us when it is bound. 
The center panel was discovered while Helen was away on Holidays, on the other side of this great continent of ours, when news of the Great Grandson arrived, she popped down to one of the LQS's and there, lo and behold was the matching border fabric! Kismet!

And this is where it becomes not just about quilts, we were rather privileged to be shown these wonderful pieces of history today.

This sampler was begun in 1883, on 26th October, that makes it 126 years old.

 It never did get finished, talk about a wrong colour choice, how hard would that black have been to work with, probably by candlelight, and how long did she persevere? but what neat stitches, and the black does show them off beautifully.

 Then there was this beauty, very fine linen, obviously well loved, well used and beautifully looked after.

I wonder what the story was about the missing letter? was there disappointment? was it perhaps a sampler done by a child and given to a Mother.  Beautiful fine stitches from almost 100 years ago.

Louise was admiring these two bags and she very kindly held this one for a pic.  Went rather well with the Tee don't you think?

 There are the most amazing beaded panels around the center of the bag, and a little V shaped decorative edging, beaded on each side of the shapes, you can see the underneath of one V shape at the top right, the drawstring has beaded tassels on each end and the whole thing is finished off with a circular base and another tassel.

Another example of beautiful beading, looks like the ribbon is a more recent addition for the drawstring. Beautifully formed leaves fold over the looped strings of beads.

What a treat to view such treasures, thank you very much.

These four quilts were bought along for Chantelle by Val and they have a truly amazing story, but firstly a little background, Val leads a small group of ladies who gather each Monday morning to make quilts for  Laurel House, a refuge for abused children.

One of the group is Betty, a lovely lady of 86 years who has a bit of a tough time, she is a Leukaemia sufferer and has to have treatment every second week, so not an easy life.

 

These quilts are Betty's quilts, wonderful quilts, full of imagination and joy.

Betty makes a flimsey every couple of weeks and Margaret, a neighbour quilts them for her and then they are delivered to Laurel House, just the ticket to snuggle into when you are looking for a little comfort.