Celtic Alphabet with Anna Williams

Last Saturday's workshop was Celtic Alphabet with

the very talented Anna Williams.

 Anna brought along some of her work to show us.

Some photos of everyone hard at work.

Anna using Wendy's piece to demonstrate the next stage.

 Karen preparing her letter.

Val copying the celtic design

 Claire's alphabet ready for the celtic design.

 The celtic design.

 Annette's A

 other Annette's S

 Val's H

 Sybil's B

Show and Tell at the end of class.

May Meeting

I wasn't at the May meeting so Jean supplied the following photos.

 It was hand over day for Community quilts.

 A selection of the quilts given to our community group,

Age Concern.

 More community quilts

 Show and Tell from Ann Herrick's workshop, "Trip Around the World".

General show and tell with Brenda.

Committee's challenge was tablerunners.

Trip Around the World with Ann Herrick

The May workshop was held on the 12th May.

It was great to get the cut out instructions in advance
so we could spend the day sewing.

 Ann's quilt.

 Pat already to start sewing.

All hard at work.

 Claire sewing strips together

 Jo concentrating on her chain piecing

Claire, Carolyn and Noeline sewing and Annette visiting at the back.

 Strips sewn

 Nearly there!

 Andrea 

 Julie

 The 11 strips sewn together.

 Then it was ironing

 More sewing

 Strips were cross cut and put in bag A and B.

 Carolyn cross cutting

 Julie at the cutting mat.

The sewing wasn't quite complete at the end of the day

so Ann demonstrated how to put the blocks together.

Thanks to Ann Herrick for a great day. 

Thankyou to Denise for keeping us fed and watered.

Photos supplied by Jean and Claire

April Show and Tell

 Val with her most embellished quilt

 Miria's beautiful roses.

 Diane's pot luck blocks

 Jules completed her WQC block of the month.

 Jean's row by row

 Brenda is taking this to Australia as a wedding present.

 Margaret's attempt to use up her scraps.

 Judithea and her mother Pauline made this lovely wall hanging.

Miria's tablerunner made in a class with Juliet.

Motor Neurone Disease

At the meeting for April, we had a visit from Ngaire Martin & Miria Bailey.

These ladies are from the Massey Quilt Group.

Ngaire has Motor Neurone Disease and has lost her voice and her 

ability to eat solid food. 

Miria came along to tell us Ngaire's story.

Ngaire made this quilt to raffle.  The proceeds are going to

the Motor Neurone Disease Association

Pot Luck

A workshop with Natalie Murdoch

A total of 13 ladies attended this workshop at Ceramco Park.

 Some of us found it hard to make a truly scrappy block by 

randomly choosing strips.

 Ceramco Park is a big place so there was plenty of room.

Jo preparing to sew her pile of fabric.

 Sybil hard at work.

Claire smiling for the camera.

  Pauline was making her blocks by hand.

 

Trudy asking Natalie a question and Jennifer cutting some fabric.

 Dawn and Noeline hard at work

 Pauline and Judithea

Lynn, June and Sybil all concentrating hard. 

 Wendy working hard in the kitchen to provide us with steady refreshments.

 June selecting the next strip.

The sewing circle.

Shots of some of the blocks.  

As usual it is always fun to see what everyone else has done.

 

A combination photo of the day.

Thanks to Natalie Murdoch for a great day and teaching us how to use up old phone books.

Also to Wendy for being gofer and taking photos.