Saturday Quilters Group

Every month for the past year, a small group of ladies have met at the local Gallery for a day of machine piecing/quilting.  I introduced the ladies to foundation piecing and over the months, they have swapped fabrics, stitched blocks and this weekend we met to baste two quilts ready for quilting.  What an achievement these ladies have made.  

 Here Janine is putting the final pins in her Twister quilt before she dives into the quilting.  

The quilting has begun on Rachel's Economy Block I Spy quilt.  

 Despite trying to emphasise the ease of moving the quilt under the machine better if it was rolled, both ladies were more comfortable to go about it in their own way

 Back to the quilting after a quick lunch break with a friend

 I spent a couple of days last week making these cute Santa Sacks and a matching Bib as Christmas gifts.  

This is my first Christmas quilt made over 30 years ago.  It is hand quilted (and perfect stitches I might add) and the 'binding' was hand done as well but I shuddered every time I looked at it. The pictures were taken from children's colouring in books and quilted in red and green cotton. It has sat in the back of a cupboard for many, many years and had been dragged out a few weeks ago and was in the 'throw out' bag to either go in the garbage bin or passed onto an Op Shop.    When it was decided to put up a Christmas quilts display at the local Gallery, I thought I would take it along and if we were 'short' of quilts, I would hang it with a little brief of its history.  Would you believe it sold a day after the display went up and I couldn't be happier - what could have been trash....

Happy sewing !