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.

Patterns, patterns, patterns

A few weeks ago, Debra pulled out the Club Accucutter and tried out the Rob Peter to Pay Paul cutting die.  She cut quite a few blocks, but only managed to sew 4, but at least that is progress & a pretty pattern.

 Now our super newby Kristine took her stunning Chevron quilt originally shown back here (on the 1st May) with her on a trip to The Quilter's Rest in Kingaroy and had a play on their long arm quilting frame.  Yes folks, she quited this one herself.

 Look at the cool sunshine and cloud pattern in the quilting

I am seeing a real gift here in Kristine.

Well done, keep it up.

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.