10th August 2013

We kept our fingers busy on this perfect winters day, sharing some recently finished works & tales of our holidays for those of us having recently been away. 

Today our group had the pleasure of the company of three Margaret's! This beautiful stationary box was made by Margaret F. Inside were a variety of gift and birthday size cards. This one was hard to give back after photographing!

Margaret was also working on a duplication of this lovely ruffle/gathered flower which is actually purple – sorry Marg, my camera has decided to make it blue.

 Margaret F was recently in Hawaii where these beautiful fabrics and kits were purchased. She also brought along delicious peanut butter filled chocolate from her trip to share with us. No calories (when shared with friends haha) and delicious!

It was lovely to see Margaret L today and we were all excited & inspired to see her hand project bag. We love the zippered plastic pockets in this very versatile fold up bag and the stripped binding set it off beautifully. This pretty block is one of 16 that Margaret L is appliqueing.

Maureen had us amazed with her stunning hexagon quilt in the making. In “only” 3 months, Maureen has hand sewn hundreds, possibly thousands (I should have counted) of tiny wee hexies to make this beautiful quilt. Can’t wait to see the finished product, hopefully before it is gifted.

Maureen’s daughter Margaret was busy continuing with this beautiful embroidery –such exquisite hand work.

Julie brought along these two lovely quilts for show & tell. Lovely combination of colours, perfect to cover the knees on these cool winter nights.

This cool looking cat was Julie’s hand work project today. Julie kindly shared with us her back basting applique technique. Thanks for the tip to google “back basting” Julie for when we need help!

Ann proudly showed us her Beatrix Potter baby quilts, nearly finished and ready to gift to a friend with twins. So cute!

Last piccie is my handwork project. I’m teaching myself to crochet (thank you You-tube and google for the online tutorials haha) and this is the outcome so far.

Thanks for visiting. That’s all from us for now,

Happy Stitching,

Sharon

July 2013 SCQuilters Brisbane GTG

With so many of our regulars on overseas holidays it was a small gathering for July.  We still managed to chat up a storm and the show and tell was inspiring as always.

Our newest recruit Kelly, has cemented her place in the group by bringing a lovely morning tea to share.  Her home made shortbread and the most delicious Brownie I had ever experienced we a very welcome addition to our day.

Here she is working on her Hexagon project.

  

Kelly did a little stitching on her applique project and showed her completed hot water bottle cover too.

 

Kayt had her usual funny stories to tell, she always has us laughing, a really lovely trait.

  

A mug bag designed by Bronwyn Hayes (please note the ring on her left hand) the work in progress is this incredibly soft hot water bottle cover project, please note once again the ring on her left hand…..!! One of her funny stories concerned the purchase of this ring, and she was very proud of her bargain purchase and wanted it to make the photos too!

 

Our mother/daughter duo Maureen and Margaret, come to us all the way from one of the Moreton Bay Islands and they often brave rain and public transport from the ferry, makes them sound like very intrepid travellers doesn’t it? Not very vocal, always productive and full of great ideas and suggestions when ever one of us is stuck for a finish on any of our projects however!

  

Margaret isn’t always comfortable having her photo taken, (she may be in Witness Protection perhaps?) Her embroidery is exquisite. Her delightful wool embroidered pincushion was ready for stuffing.

 

The bag Margret is showing off was a raffle win, in support of Breast Cancer research. It is a large bag made using charm squares.

Gail may be another in Witness Protection, here she is hiding behind her winter hand stitching project a rather large hexagon quilt top.

 

I was working on a cardigan for my grandson and brought along my lunch in a new lunch bag made from a freebie pattern on the net.

    

The smocking sampler that Maureen was able to give some great suggestions on finishing was one of my show and tell items along with the satchel above I made at a recent quilt retreat.

 

Both of the above projects the pincushion and baby quilt were also from freebie tutorials found on the internet.

While we may have been a smallish group we still generated enough conversation to keep us occupied and the show and tell will certainly give us motivation for the upcoming month.

Looking forward to the return of our world travellers and to another enjoyable day in August.

Thanks for visiting,

Julie Donovan

May 2013 Meeting

 

Hi All,

Another month, another meeting. Thanks to all who rose to the challenge and brought along their disastrous and not so disastrous show and tell. So strictly in alphabetical order…

Disaster number one… too bland and badly quilted… by me.

 

 

 

 

Disaster number 2… was so busy making the journal cover that I forgot to line the front bit up straight.

 

 

 

Not a disaster. The quilt I was putting a binding on at the time.

 

 

 

 

Also not disasters…Janet’s feathers…

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and two quilt tops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one, believe it or not was disaster 3. The problem… yellow pounce chalk that wouldn’t come out.

 

 

 

These were Julie’s quilt as you go blocks. Not a disaster, but much discussion was had about the various different ways of joining the blocks.

 

 

 

 

 

Disaster 4 was Julie’s smocking. Because it was created too close to the edge to attach to anything. Thankfully a disaster no more, as Maureen was able to demonstrate a way of fixing a border too it.

 

 

Two more non-disasters from Julie. Some mounted blocks and a wall hanging.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disaster 5 was Kayt’s cross stitch which ran out of room for the rest of the alphabet.

 

 

 

 

Followed by her brilliantly quilted and non-disastrous 3-6-9 quilt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret F’s table runner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two quilts by Margaret. This one from a workshop with Lisa Walton.

 

 

 

 

 

And…this one, made as a memento of a trip to Tibet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Followed by Margaret’s Mum Maureen, who showed off her beautiful wall hanging made from quilt as you go hexagons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sonya showed off this beautiful crocheted rug she had bought at the Antiques and collectibles fair.

 

 

 

 

As well as this incredible embroidery she was working on.

 

 

 

 

Hope to see you all next time.

Helen