Thursday night....

Jane had her scrappy-trip-around top done - looking good with the spotted border.

Jenny and Fiona were working on the same block - one big and one small. Fiona is using the English paper piecing technique while Jenny is hand stitching the bigger version.

Sue made a very pretty baby quilt with 1930's reproduction fabrics.

Elaine getting ready to do some hexagons..............

Jacqui's beautiful hand pieced Kaffe quilt is growing!

Marlene is still working on the Christmas tree decorations from the last fair - thankfully there was ONE person  - Jane _ who opted to help her.

Denise decided to make some sort of balls...............

Hand quilting for Debbie. Such a sweet little table runner.

Jane bought our her 1/2" again.....

A crochet scarf was on the cards for Letitia.....

Jules is setting up to get some cutting done.

1"squares for Leanne - it is going to be the prettiest scrap quilt.

This lovely bag and rotary keeper was made for Jenny by Sue.

Debbie's rotary keeper - made by Sue.

Jane's quilt in her basket made a pretty picture.

Jenny

Thursday night

Some of the Thursday nighters worked on their "scrappy trip arounds" June popped in for a visit.

Denise was pleased with her first attempt......

Binding was Fiona's work of choice..

Judy's scrappy trip along - quite a few squares completed and her other interesting project happened to be amongst her work.

Marleen working on her SECOND scrappy trip around.

Marleen went home last Thursday night and started AND completed a quilt by the weekend.

Letitia's quilt - complete!!

Another productive Thursday night.

Thank you Jane for the photos!!

February Show and Tell....

Oh My Goodness, what a day, what a smorrebrod of visual treats and great news at the Cottage today.

Found Pat in the Atrium Gallery, struggling to single handedly hang one of the many quilts for sale.

Clever girl wouldn't you agree?

Fran is busily finishing off some beautiful bullion embroidery, started in the Needlework Group meeting.

 

Soft toys completed for the Library quilts, 2 we saw in the making last week, Dinosaurs by Sheila and Heather has made a cute Zebra.

Lots of toiletry bags have been stitched by members over the break, they were all bought in today to have their drawstrings threaded, Ailsa had the great job of measuring off the strings, while Beryl,  Louise and Dorothy busily threaded away. 

Next week there will be another one of those lines of organised ladies busily stuffing said bags with toiletries for the Mums and Kiddies helped by Najidah.

 
Julie has been very busy over the break, she has made several charity quilts, one using the great 10 minute blocks from Suzanne McNeill, pop over to her blog for some great inspiration and a YouTube link on how to make these very simple but effective blocks.

Another of Julies charity quilts, the inspiration of this one from Lorraine, again a very effective design.

And just because she can........can do beautiful embroidery that is, Julie also made this adorable baby girl quilt.

Now I know embroidery on a pale background just isn't going to show, so here are some close ups for you, with a little help from Picasa.

Who could resist those teddies.  You can see by the pink dots (showing red) how much colour has been added to bring you a nice view of the embroidery.

Fae shared this lovely quilt made for another of her friends, lovely florals.

From the muted to the vibrant.
Wendy got a Grandies request to make him a quilt with Lego on it, so she designed and created 'Growing up with Lego' for him..

Mind you, no prizes for guessing what the little guys name starts with!

The center panel shows the step by step building of a 'Lego man' and is repeated along the top and the bottom of the quilt.

The border is of course 'Lego blocks'.  Wendy was also able to source some fabric  printed with lego blocks and pieced a disappearing 9 patch for the backing.

Lorraine had another bag to share with us, this one she saw in a magazine as a cushion, so of course it's a bag!, got enough cushions, needed another bag...not!

 

And where was Lorraine?

Down the back teaching a very excited Courtney some tricks on her new sewing machine!

One of Courtney's family decided she needed to upgrade and bought her a new Brother, light enough to be easily portable and a lovely little machine with lots of fancy stitches as you can see by Courtney's practice piece.

The Great News...........is...........the arrangements for the Cottage Winter School have been finalised! Yay!!.
There is a very comprehensive booklet available in the cottage for perusal on all the tutors and the classes they will be presenting, and I will be bringing you a version of that in the next day or two, in the meantime pop over to the Buderim Craft Cottage site and click on the Winter School Button, or you could just go here and while you are over on the Craft Cottage site, have a browse around and check out the Atrium, lots of members from all of the Cottage groups have wares and treasures for sale.

Scrappy trip around - Thursday night

A group of enthusiastic ladies, armed with their machines and strips of fabrics, were waiting for Debs to open up on Thursday night. Letitia got them started and they were off and running......

Fiona was very, very happy with hers...............

Debbie, concentrating hard................

Jules and Leanne nitter nattering away .............

Judy chose Kaffe and a pink and grey spot - nice...........

Jane's colours - bright with black/ivory spot..........

1930's reproduction for Letitia - quite a change for her!!!!!

Here they all are - the very happy "scrappy trippers" !!!!!!

Some of us chose not to do the workshop.
Marlene's quilt in memory of Janet Smith is almost done - lovely hand quilted Baptist fans - beautiful backing fabric too. A very special quilt.

Jacqui had some beautiful Kaffe hexagons that she was hand piecing.

Denise was persuaded NOT to unpick this bit of vintage loveliness!!!!!!!

Elaine had some interesting hexagons - fussy cut to perfection...........

Jane and her seemingly endless amount of 1/2" hexagons!!!!!! Come on, Jane, you can do it. Try focusing on one quilt at a time?????

Jenny had a scrap quilt top to show...........

Letitia will be doing another workshop on the "Scrappy Trip Around" this Thursday.

For those of you who are wanting to join in please bring the following:

6 strips of fabric 2.5" wide by 17" in length

Sewing machine

Rotary cutter, mat and ruler

Basic sewing supplies

"Unpicker" you will need to unpick 1 little seam.

What a lovely way to start the year!!!

Thank Letitia for the fun workshop.

PS.Jane it's your turn for supper.

First meeting for 2013...

and in spite of Mother Nature taking a swipe at us, along with some members still away enjoying holidays, we had a good showing of faces.

Our beautiful state of Queensland has once again suffered massive floods and damage from strong winds, the kind of winds that blow trees down, not shrubs, huge trees, bringing down power lines and crashing through roofs and flattening cars.
Our hearts go out to those who are once again facing the huge cleanup and heartbreak of this disaster, especially those who have lost loved ones.

Found Louise cutting out these cute Matryoshka or Babushka Dolls.
Louise has fused the dolls to fusible web and was busily cutting them out but claimed she is open to suggestions on just what to do with them.  Being the talented lass she is she will come up with something out of the box.

Sheila bought along 2 dinosaur toys to be stuffed - just get a look at the size of that bag of stuffing-serious stuffing will be taking place!, anyway, Betty was only too happy to volunteer to help out with the stuffing of these cuties, one has tinsy prairie points down his back and the little pink one has perfect machine embroidered dots.

 Marie bought her Library Quilt along for an update, she has changed the 'Look at me Daisy', unpicking the embroidered faces and placing them on top of the petals, she is also adding leaves with tiny squares of mirror running up the centres.

 

There are some exciting additions to the quilt, like this really vibrant dressing table, complete with hand mirror and comb.

Continuing the Nautical story there is now a Pirate Boat.

and get this, there is also an Island, complete with a Palm Tree and a swashbuckling Pirate!

Great progress being made, so looking forward to watching these innovative quilts coming into being.

Val has been busy over the holiday period with two commissions, this one is for her Niece's little girl, each of the ladybugs has a her own facial expression.

This disappearing 9patch with the Teddies border is for a friend who wanted a 1st quilt for her new little Grandson.

There were some lovely bags on the Show and Tell table, this innovative one had us stumped for awhile,

Until we found the zipper opening in the bottom, of course, no way to have sticky fingers dabbling in your purse!

Lorraine bought along this cutie to share with us, bit of a fan of bags is Lorraine, (Ooops, had to type that bit twice, had the words bags and lady a bit too close together)  I've heard the rumor that Lorraine has piles of bag patterns!

 

Ailsa bought this bag to show and share, wonderful bead detail on the clasp and stacks of pockets.