UFO via text message

 TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2014

About 20 mins after arriving at craft Debra received a text message that said

"Tuesday night craft.... Memerambi style"

 

(It was from Liz.  Yeah Liz is creating.)

Back in the room we were celebrating a birthday.

 Happy Birthday Toni

 So we sent Liz a couple of photos that said.

"Awesome.  Have some cake. So Glad you are Crafting."

Liz replied with "Oh yum!!! I could totally go some cake!!  LOL"

 

 Tash & Tracey offer Victoria some advice on quilt borders

So our evening continued.

We admired Gayle's adorable runner - very theme appropriate for our current weather

 The umbrella is covered in tiny french knots.

About 1 hour later another text message

"One side of my quilt is an inch longer than the other!!!!  Lone problem solving sucks LOL"

"Send a photo please"

About half an hour later 

"I found my inch... Some of my original seams in the disc section were a bit big... if I measure the inner square that's where the discrepancy is ... just means I have to measure every side every time"

"Yes that is true.  So glad you found it.  Can we please have a photo pretty please.??"  

So Liz finally sent us a progress photo 

"So far the only new bit is the white... starting the 2nd border now"  

The white makes it look so different.  Awesome.  What's next?

"Another border like the one on the other side of the white... then I'm thinking peeper before piano keys"

And about an hour later

"Tada" 

 So friends who are not with us physically - you can still join in UFO craft on Tuesday.  Even if you don't communicate via text, just set aside your Tuesday night & craft with us in spirit.  You never know just how much you will do.  

And of course if you ask for help we will give it.

Keep popping back.  I expect the next few weeks will be super busy too.

Rachel's recycled rags to riches

After many requests, I have finally found the time to blog my recycled fashion piece from term 4 of Year 10 Home Ecconomics.
The unit asked us to create a garment from at least 70% recycled materials with a $25 budget. On our shopping trip I found a dark blue top, light blue doiley,a mens blue tie and a pair of 3/4 denim pants at St Vincent De Paul and bought some lace and two iron on patches from Ace Strapers. Then I upcycled them into this: (and just in case you were wondering - yes they are finished, completly)


For the shirt I sewed the doiley to the shirt with a button in the centre. I also stitched buttons to the side of the neck and cut strips of fabric at the bottom. For the pants, i bought some iron on patches and lace which i hand stitched on the back pockets. I also used the tie as a belt and cut the pants to transform them into denim shorts.

POSTS COMING SOON: Bullion roses with Cecily

Feel free to edit this Liz, as it may not be up to my usual homework standards! ;)

Just Because

Now you have read about the party and the Gift for Cecily this will show you the close ups of the great stitcheries.

 Yes this may have caused tears. We have all been a bit worried about Cecily of late and decided as we couldn't fix the problem, we could make a quilt to make the problem seem a little better.

We all know Cecily LOVES her garden & her books, things that make her house a home, so we decided to focus on these beautiful things.  Most of our ladies stitched an embroidery - some for the 1st time ever and we pieced together this quilt.

 Butterfly by Olivia, Bird & Roses by Elizabeth

 A book in the shade of the tree by Gayle

 Bees by Kym, Novel by Kristine

 Verse by Elizabeth

friends by Leanne

A "proper" beehive by Emily

 Garden by Tracey

 serenity by Colleen

LIttle bird (top) by Rachel
Big bird (bottom) by Kirsten

 The UFO Craft tree by Debra (with a little incomplete stitching just for Cecily to do)
Thanks everyone for your signatures.

And the whole quilt top.  (Sorry about the angle of the photo).  When we handed it to Cecily on Tuesday it was borderless, she popped the red border on today and has some 'leftover' pieces to put around the outside..

Christmas get together

Hello Ladies,

The much anticipated Christmas dinner photo's are on the blog. Scroll down and remember the fun night we had.

 Liz and Cecily with their gift's.

 Sadly we must say goodbye to Liz, but I personally would like to thank you for all your English, Cemistry and Math tutorials that you have given freely, and with a smile to Rachel.

 

Enjoying the food.

It's finished!!!

Hello ladies. I finally finished the wedding quilt this afternoon!!

David and I are both very happy with it and I can't wait for it to get that little bit cooler so we can snuggle underneath it!!

Thank you Tuesday night UFOers for this amazing gift!!!

What a workout!

This Tuesday night saw us achieve an amazing craft workout. We sipped (see photographic evidence below), we stitched, we ironed, we pinned, we gas bagged, we got down on the floor, we moved quilt blocks around until we found an aesthetically pleasing layout,we got up off the floor, we stretched (as we spread out quilts to admire finished quilts, well done Tracey:) & may have gas bagged a bit more. All said we had a good craft workout.

Above: Di ironing-working those biceps... 

Above- is a quilt of Bev's (Tuesday daytime group member) 

Above- Cecily's bobbin holder which I thought was pretty cool. 

Above- Kym and Kristine- doing the floor workout. 

Above- Tracey and her finished shaggy quilt and matching teddy bear. 

Above- Di's scarecrow quilt getting pinned. 

Above- Not sure who had this one??????

Happy Crafting

Gayle

Too funny not to share

For those of you who have crafted with us, this video will make perfect sense.

For those of you who craft with other women this video will make perfect sense.

For those of you who spend time in large groups of women this video will make perfect sense.

For those of you who are male - you probably won't appreciate this video.

My boys were at craft with me tonight.  My oldest (Mr 10) got a little bored and decided to video us.... 

 If you couldn't read his lips he says "its CRAZY"

CRAZY - nope, normal - yes.  There were only 10 of us there tonight, that's not crazy at all.

Gaining momentum

Hello All,
Tonight I am making my first ever blog post and I'm a little excited. Many thanks to the lovely Debra for my introduction to blogging tonight!!

I've just got a few photos to share of some quilts I recently finished... The first of which has been an ongoing project for a while, and I couldn't be happier with the out come!!

Completed quilt top

Finished product being modelled...

And then I recently put together a shaggy train quilt for my brother using a polo fleece for backing. It only took 2 afternoons/evenings to do and it was soooooo soft and cuddly. I will definitely have to do another I think.... But maybe not a shaggy.... Th!e fluff is everywhere!!!

 

Hopefully this has all worked! It's quite late now so I'm off to bed and looking forward to getting into my new projects soon.

A few UFOs bite the dust...

 Short and sweet and a whole heap of photos.

First cab off the rank. 

 Leanne finished her "re cut diamonds" started in a workshop here in Roma in 2011

 Faye finished binding her "Cake Mix" Quilt started in 2011 (I think)  it is just stunning.

 Liz finished the cushion to match "Fletcher's Quilt"

Debra turned a Jelly Roll Race( from 2 years ago) into an Aussie Hero Quilt and it has been sent to a chaplain in Afghanistan.

 Tracey finished another whole burrow full of Rabbits.

Debra made more progress on the 'care quilt' that is now becoming a 'Aussie Hero Quilt"

 

and a few of us joined other members of Roma Patchwork to make new UFOs (joking).  

We participated in an "All the Wave" workshop with Julie Latcham (front right) of Cow Paddocks Patchwork .

Cecily (Back left), Melanie (Back 2nd from right), Leanne (back right) and Debra (front left) made sure UFO craft were very well represented.

Well it is craft again tonight, so who knows what we will achieve.

Catch you later.