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.

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.

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.

Constructive, Creative & even some finishes.

The last few months have seen many of our ladies being ULTRA constructive.

Gayle finished Rachel's quilt.  It looks AMAZING

 

and because she is such a lovely Mum, Gayle made a matching cushion too.

(oops I just realised the photo is completely upside down - sorry)

Here is Gayle with the quilt.  I think she should be very proud of herself.

Well done Gayle.

 

 Proof we are constructive, Cecily is binding, Olivia is talking  unfolding fabric to iron.

 Leanne is talking (yep) and Liz is having dinner? (Sometimes turning up is as much as we can do)  We wouldn't have it any other way.

 Cecily showed off her finished Batik quilt, it has gone to its new owner already.

A second Cecily finish in very non-Cecily colours.  This is almost the first quilt that Cecily has made exactly to the pattern and using the fabrics specified in the pattern.  This is uncommon as Cecily usually changes up the fabrics to suit her tastes and the pattern to suit the degree of challenge she wants.

 

Debra started work on a care quilt using fabrics from the scrap bins.  I see a nautical theme going on here.

 As we left, we almost took this visitor home with us.  How Tracey managed not to get a spider imprinted in her face I do not know.  He had made his web between my car and the closest tree.  Glad we convinced him to stay behind.

Hope to be back to post some more progress soon.

A quilt layout was decided.... and does anyone have a HAMMER???

As we posted a couple of days ago HERE  Debra was trying to choose a layout for her layer cake quilt.  We had 3 choices "diagonals, chevrons or circles" however as Debra didn't love any of them she moved all the pieces around again and here is the sewn result.

Giant Diamond with a 'ripple effect"

(Yes I know there is a block in upside down, I will unpick that on another day)

 Leanne was making cushions for her daughter to use at her job in the Daycare Centre and required a hammer.  We asked the room "does anyone have a hammer with them?"  Can you believe that no one did??? shock of all horrors, what do you use when you cant find a hammer?????

Bricks of course

 

And a group shot with a  few more of us in it.  L-R: Olivia, Lynn, Liz (front), Debra, Gayle (Front) Tracey & Leanne.

See everyone next week.

Australia Day Pyjama Sew-in

We Came

 

We sewed.

We met a new friend "Frenchy" however she did not want to craft and is a little rigid in her approach to life.

 

We ate (No photos)

 and we achieved something 

Leanne's 'baby' quilt top

 

 Leanne's Quilted table topper (Yes that is a workshop project from 2 years ago.) It would have been bound, but the red fabric did not come to craft with Leanne

Gayle's "million triangles" for Rachel's Quilt

Liz made 3/4 of a carry bag for her new bike (yes once again the last element was left at home) and started the layout for a cushion to match "Fletcher's" Quilt made a few weeks ago.

Debra

Completed lining Laundry Bags for Aussie Hero Quilts and Laundry Bags and bound a quilt for them also

And Debra started on the piecing for her latest quilt.

We laughed, we crafted, we laughed some more and we enjoyed time together.

However, we did forget our pyjamas - oops.

Maybe next time.