Hello everyone Elizabeth here again. It has been awhile since I wrote a post.
I would like to thank Sue has has done a great job with the blog over the past couple of years. Sue hasn’t been well and we wish her a speedy recovery so we can meet again at MP&Q.
After some soul searching we have decided to create a FaceBook group to share our works and happenings. You can find us at Maclean Patchwork&Quilters.
Many thanks to the loyal readers of our blog and a Happy Easter to everyone. Yours in stitching Elizabeth
Here we are at the last meeting for 2023. 6 days till Christmas and still so much to do.
We had a few Show and Tells today as well as the Birthday Girls.
SHOW AND TELL
Marlene
Marlene has had a busy year but still managed to finish a wall hanging for Christmas.
Just lovely Marlene. Love the needlework.
Debra
This is Debra’s second attempt at shimmering triangles. She didn’t think the first one shimmered enough. Well I think you have the hang of it now Debra. It looks great. Very optical illusiony.
Step back to view this lovely quilt. You can see the effect beautifully.
Debra’s next quilt was made from Christmas give ways. I think that means she used her Christmas member gift to make it. Well done Debra great use of fabric.
Love the colours. They blend so well.
Judy
Judy’s quilt was made for her son, made from Ties belonging to him and his Father and Grandfather.
Wonderful use of an item not so in use today. Just love the colour co-ordination.
The close up.
Wonderful job Judy. Quite inspiring.
BIRTHDAY GIRLS. – December.
What a busy month December is, we thought it was just for Christmas but quite a few of our members have December as their birth month.
Happy Birthday to you all. Hope you have a lovely Birthday.
Left to right. Carol, Elizabeth, Trudy, Gail, Marlene and Joan.
Special wishes to Marlene who turned 80. You look too young to be 80. Hope everyone had a great day.
Also a special Birthday wish to Christina, unable to attend the day. Many Happy returns Christina.
FYI
So from all the members of Maclean Patchwork and Quilters to all our followers on this Blog, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year for 2024.
Christmas Party Day, how exciting. A chance to relax and enjoy our end of the year get together. But of course there is a couple of things we need to do first before we get into all the lovely foods supplied by our members. We had ‘Show and Tell’ and the Christmas Challenge, The awarding of the ‘Betty Harris Award’, the fat quarter swap, and some games.
SHOW AND TELL.
Judy
Judy took her crazy patchwork and embellishment workshop block and turned it into a bag.
Great idea Judy. Well done.
Gail.
Gail handed some of the Betty Harris fabric to Dianne and received back these to gorgeous children’s bags.
Well done Dianne.
Dianne also completed her block for Gail’s Friendship quilt.
Terrific job Dianne. Gail’s favourite colours and Elvis to boot. Gail is in heaven.
Helen.
Helen has been working on this medallion quilt for a couple of years. Well worth the effort Helen. Just lovely.
So much to look at. Just stunning.
The close up.
Margaret.
Margaret never lets us down and always has something for us to admire and be inspired.
This is Margaret as she always is. Smiling.
This week it is three books for a grandchild. Just lovely and sooooo cute.
Thank you Margaret you are an inspiration to us all.
Neil
Neil has bought in a project he completed for a challenge from Bernina.
Quite stunning.
Great work Neil as usual. Very unique.
THE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE
Our Christmas Challenge was set by the winner of last years Challenge. Which was to make something that started with the first initial of your first name. The items were judged by the members in a secret ballot. The winner was Elizabeth with her Eggs. Very unique Elizabeth. Congratulations.
The items made for the Challenge will be donated to the Sales Table for the Easter ‘Airing of the Quilts’.
2nd Place went to Debra with her lovely bag.
Great job Debra.
Congratulations to everyone who entered. The variety was wonderful and made it hard to choose the winner.
A couple of the projects for your perusal.
Beth’s Bag.
Dianne’s Dog themed bags.
Gail’s Galaxy.
Liz’s Label and Lavender sachet.
Lorraine’s beautiful Lavender runner.
Neil’s………..aaahhhh I forgot. But they did start with N. Really cute too.
Trudy’s ……..’T’ s.
Well done everyone, a great selection.
BETTY HARRIS AWARD
Each year at this time a ballot is run to find a recipient of The Betty Harris Award. Betty was a member who was regarded as a helpful, caring and inspiring member.
This year the award goes to:
Congratulations Neil.
FYI
19th December, 2023 – Last meeting for 2023
16th January, 2024 – First Meeting for 2024.
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and may 2024 be a great year for you and your Families.
This year has gone by very quickly, here we are only 20 days from Christmas. Next week is our Christmas party and the following week we have our last meeting for 2023. It was a fairly busy year and next year will be busier with, Airing of the Quilts at Easter and the quilt exhibition in July. All the preparation for each of these events takes months of planning. As the group has been going for 34 years I am sure they are very practiced and everything will go smoothly.
Show and Tell this week is very light on, due to the Christmas Challenge I can bet, but we still have a couple of items to share.
SHOW AND TELL
Marcia R.
Marcia has been busy making a couple of Christmas themed projects.
Table Runners. Very nice.
The close up.
Very good Marcia. Thank you.
Margaret
As you all know not a week goes by where we don’t have something from Margaret. This week she has completed the Toiletries pouches for the Foodbank. She also made about 4 bags for children with a small present in each. So the male recipients don’t miss out some of those toiletry pouches are male orientated.
Fabulous job Margaret. You are a gem.
Thanks everyone for your contributions.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who donated to the Foodbank appeal for goods. The response was wonderful and I am sure Amanda from the Foodbank is appreciative of your efforts, as well as the families receiving your wonderful donations.
FYI
In House Workshop Dates
To be advised in the New Year.
Dates to watch out for:
December 2023 – Christmas Party at the Church Hall. 12th December 2023. Bring along a fat quarter wrapped, for the Christmas gift swap. The help out lists are circulating don’t forget to be part of the team.
Final meeting for 2023 will be 19th December 2023.
Christmas Challenge for 2023. Can you please place in a paper bag on the Challenge table at the Christmas Party.
Gail has been chosen for the next Friendship quilt. She has given you free reign to choose any colours or theme you want as long as it reflects ‘ÝOU’. 10-1/2″ square block
Group start date for 2024 – After the Christmas break we will return on 16th January 2024.
Our last few days of spring and also the calm before the chaos of the Christmas period. Only three more weeks until we take a break over Christmas before our 2024 start on 16th January. Summer is only days away, our Christmas party is only two weeks away and then our last day for 2023, December 19th. I think my life is flashing before my eyes, far too quickly. We all have many projects in the works for our Airing of the Quilts at Easter 2024, then the Quilt Exhibition in July 2024. Lots to prepare. Lets not forget to have fun on the way.
It was General Meeting day today as well as Birthday celebrations for those members whose Birthday is in November and those for December as well as we won’t be able to celebrate in the last week of December. Cakes a plenty.
Christina was our only Birthday girl available. Many Happy Returns Christina.
SHOW AND TELL
Again a very light week due to the general meeting and the countdown to the end of the year.
Claudette
This one is for Claudette’s grandchild.
The close up.
The back.
Beautiful Claudette. Good job.
Lorraine
Lorraine needed some advice on her nearly completed hexagon quilt.
Looking good Lorraine. Can’t wait to see the finished article.
Neil.
Neil needed some advice as well.
This is the start of a project for Neil. His question was the introduced pale pink enhancing the project or not.
This looks wonderful so far. Trust your judgement Neil. You are an artist.
GAIL
Gail gave me a small piece of scrap fabric from Betty Harris’ collection. I made a tissue cover and a small bag and pouch.
This is the last of the blueberries. The small pouch has the very last piece in it. We hope these items will sell at the airing of the quilts.
Not a big week. But let me assure you everyone is working feverishly on their Christmas challenge.
FYI
In House Workshop Dates
To be advised in the New Year.
Dates to watch out for:
December 2023 – Christmas Party at the Church Hall. 12th December 2023. Bring along a fat quarter wrapped, for the Christmas gift swap. The help out lists are circulating don’t forget to be part of the team.
Final meeting for 2023 will be 19th December 2023.
Christmas Challenge for 2023. Can you please place in a paper bag on the Challenge table at the Christmas Party.
Gail has been chosen for the next Friendship quilt. She has given you free reign to choose any colours or theme you want as long as it reflects ‘ÝOU’. 10-1/2″ square block
Group start date for 2024 – After the Christmas break we will return on 16th January 2024.
Well, we have reached that point where we are only 5 weeks till Christmas. Everybody is busy getting their item for the Christmas Challenge finished before December 12th. Some of us haven’t even started but we will be finished by the required time. Our real challenge is to come up with something that starts with our first initial…………….S……..Sewing kit or Strawberry bag or, or, or. I still have 3 weeks. What about you?
This time of year is also a time to reflect on the past year and try to make a decision about who we will vote for in the Betty Harris Award. Voting slips are available and you only have a couple of weeks to decide who you think best suits the criteria for this award. I know it is hard as we have many members who could be this years winner. As you know we are looking for someone with the attributes of caring and helpfulness. Again, too many to wheedle down to just one. But we must. Good luck.
SHOW AND TELL.
Gail
As you know Gail has the huge task of delving through all the fabric left by Betty Harris when she passed. Gail distributes the fabric to those members she thinks will take the fabric and re-purpose it and add to our Sales table items for ‘Airing of the Quilts’ or the Quilt Exhibition.
This week I finished a few items for Gail.
A Strawberries and Cream Bag, a couple of pouches, a couple of sewing kits and a card pouch.
Still more to come as the strawberry fabric was 1 mtr. So much to do so little time. LOL.
Margaret
As you know Margaret is never without something new for us to see. This week it is tote bags for the ‘Foodbank’. A Christmas theme. She has also been working on some Toiletry bags in which she has knitted a face washer and put in a cake of soap. Such a thoughtful gesture for the disadvantaged looked after by the Foodbank.
Thank you Margaret and of course our bag models. Chris, Fay and Marcia.
Robyne
Robyne has finished yet another quilt for the Allawah children’s Centre in Sydney.
Such a lovely colourful quilt to brighten a child’s day. Thanks Robyne.
Alison
Alison has been busy making Christmas stockings and decorations.
Great job Alison as usual. Very Festive.
Debra
Debra has finally finished her quilt. Her shimmering quilt.
Just lovely, Colour combinations go well together.
The back goes so well with the front. Thanks Debra, just gorgeous.
FYI
In House Workshop Dates
To be advised in the New Year.
Dates to watch out for:
December 2023 – Christmas Party at the Church Hall. 12th December 2023. Bring along a fat quarter wrapped, for the Christmas gift swap. The help out lists are circulating don’t forget to be part of the team.
Final meeting for 2023 will be 19th December 2023.
Christmas Challenge for 2023. Can you please place in a paper bag on the Challenge table at the Christmas Party.
Gail has been chosen for the next Friendship quilt. She has given you free reign to choose any colours or theme you want as long as it reflects ‘ÝOU’. 10-1/2″ square block
Group start date for 2024 – After the Christmas break we will return on 16th January 2024.
Lovely day today and not much Show and Tell but a wonderful display of Art Quilts by Elizabeth, Penne, Neil and Colleen. This display is quite inspiring and should get the creative juices stirring in more of us.
ART QUILT GROUP DISPLAY.
Just stunning.
This one shows how to display your Art Quilt. Just gorgeous.
So many ways to get those artistic juices flowing.
So many designs and such variety.
This one is intricate .
All so wonderful. Well done group. Maybe next year will can all try to produce at least one art quilt each.
SHOW AND TELL.
Dianne
Dianne is such a good shopper. She is always turning up with some great buys from OP shops.
This week was an Advent Calendar.
Very cute. Dianne has it earmarked as a present for one of her family.
Mae Gibb designs.
Sue and Marie
Two more of the Block of the Month group quilt have been completed.
Sue.
Marie.
Only 2 more to go.
Chris.
Last week I asked for shopping bags we could pass onto the Foodbank for Christmas distribution. Chris being the lovely person she is has made three shopping type bags. Well done Chris the Foodbank really appreciate all your efforts.
Chris was too shy to show the bags on her own so we sent in Dianne to help out,
Thanks everyone. I know we are all winding down for the end of the year and really engrossed in the Christmas Challenge, but we need just a couple of Show and Tells for the next couple of weeks. Maybe you have an item you made a few years ago that you just love. Maybe it needs an outing and can be shown to our new members. Just a thought.
FYI
In House Workshop Dates
To be advised in the New Year.
Dates to watch out for:
December 2023 – Christmas Party at the Church Hall. 12th December 2023.
Final meeting for 2023 will be 19th December 2023.
Christmas Challenge for 2023. Can you please place in a paper bag on the Challenge table at the Christmas Party.
Gail has been chosen for the next Friendship quilt. She has given you free reign to choose any colours or theme you want as long as it reflects ‘ÝOU’. 10-1/2″ square block
Group start date for 2024 – After the Christmas break we will return on 16th January 2024.
A new month and closer to the end of 2023. Time is flying by and our members are busy with workshops and projects that need to be finished before years end. We have finally had enough rain to water our gardens and resurrect our plants and trees. So being idle is not something our members engage in, Show and Tell is light on this week but I am sure the next month will be an explosion of projects.
WORKSHOP – NOVEMBER 2023.
This week was our monthly workshop. ‘Shaggy Reverse Applique’ with Elizabeth B.
This was something new and exciting to try, so everyone’s attention was on Elizabeth, who gave a very informative and inspirational workshop for our last one for 2023.
Elizabeth was showing the stages of a shaggy reverse applique using blocks she had prepared earlier.
Everybody was keen to have a go at Shaggy reverse applique’ and were very attentive to Elizabeth.
Thanks Elizabeth, you always come up with interesting and inspiring workshops.
SHOW AND TELL
Janet/Sue
Janet was the inspiration for this peg bag with a difference. Janet mentioned how one of my peg bags could be modified to be a safe bag that could be hung in your clothes robes to store valuable items.
This was the result.
A zippered bag.
Thanks for the inspiration Janet. Hope you like it.
Margaret
It wouldn’t be the same without Margaret showing her latest item.
An embroidery panel on a tote bag. Margaret keeps busy all the time.
Thanks again Margaret you are an inspiration.
Lorraine
Lorraine has made a lovely book pillow for her Granddaughter to match the quilt she made previously.
Thanks Lorraine we are sure your Granddaughter will love it.
Liz
Liz has not quite finished her quilt but we couldn’t resist showing you.
Fabric with cat footprints. How cute. (do you think Liz is a Cat lover?)
The close up. Just the binding to go.
Thanks Liz.
Alison
Alison has a small Horn Table with a lift and Wheels on one end she wishes to sell, as well as a small quilting frame for sale.
Anyone interested can contact us and we will direct any enquiries to Alison. Don’t forget an email address or phone number for Alison to reply.
FYI
In House Workshop Dates
To be advised in the New Year.
Dates to watch out for:
December 2023 – Christmas Party at the Church Hall. 12th December 2023.
Final meeting for 2023 will be 19th December 2023.
Christmas Challenge for 2023. Can you please place in a paper bag on the Challenge table at the Christmas Party.
Gail has been chosen for the next Friendship quilt. She has given you free reign to choose any colours or theme you want as long as it reflects ‘ÝOU’. 10-1/2″ square block
Group start date for 2024 – After the Christmas break we will return on 16th January 2024.
Halloween came to Quilt Group today. Fay and Elizabeth got into the mood.
Nobody seems to be frightened of Fay.
I was wrong, I think Elizabeth looks a little scared of what Fay may do.
Thanks Ladies.
BIRTHDAY CAKE
We had three members celebrating their Birthdays in October. Many Happy Returns everyone. Hope you had a great Birthday.
Janet H, Chris B and Val W. Lots of cake to share with your quilting friends. Enough cake to go around twice.
Happy Birthday everyone.
SHOW AND TELL
Carol
Our first member this morning was Carol with a scrappy quilt.
Stunning use of scrap pieces.
Carol has been working on this quilt for over a year. Great job Carol the grey framing accentuates the blocks.
The close up.
Thanks Carol.
Gail
Gail is the next member to do a Friendship quilt. The theme is a 10 -1/2” block any colours any theme but make to represent the member.
Well so far Gail has received 2 blocks and she is thrilled. Gail likes to keep a low profile so not impressed to be in the spotlight.
This block was made by Lorraine. A basket of flowers to cheer anyone’s day.
This one by Marcia R. in Gail’s favourite colours.
So now the rest of us know how to proceed.
Good work everyone.
Margaret
As you must know, a day without something spectacular from Margaret would not be as interesting a day.
This week Margaret tells us she purchased a quilt pattern and fabric from Dianne for the princely sum of $25. She went home and one week later she produced many items for the sales table as well as for one of her favourite charities. She keeps us on our toes and inspires us weekly.
The zippered pouches in the front are for her charity and the place mats in the rear are for the sales table.
The close up.
Thanks Margaret great job yet again.
Therese
For those of you who remember a past member Therese, we caught up with her last Saturday and managed to get a photo of her finished quilt. Therese had be working on this quilt for some time. Embroidering blocks etc.
All hand sewn.
Therese has colonial Knots on the binding. That’s dedication to your craft.
Thanks Therese for sharing with the group.
FYI
In House Workshop Dates
7th November 2023 Shaggy Applique’ Elizabeth B.
Dates to watch out for:
December 2023 – Christmas Party at the Church Hall. 12th December 2023.
Final meeting for 2023 will be 19th December 2023.
Art Quilts – Getting together on 2nd Tuesday (7th) in November.
Christmas Challenge for 2023. Can you please place in a paper bag on the Challenge table at the Christmas Party.
Gail has been chosen for the next Friendship quilt. She has given you free reign to choose any colours or theme you want as long as it reflects ‘ÝOU’. 10-1/2″ square block
Group start date for 2024 – After the Christmas break we will return on 16th January 2024.
Debra has been working on items for our Sales Table. This is a Japanese block bag.
Debra has made this bag from fabric squares she purchased a while back. 5 squares make the outer bag with loops on each of the 4 sides and then pull ties threaded through to pull the bag together. Of course it is lined as well. Very clever. You will need to ask Debra for the size of the squares. What a great way to get rid of more scraps.
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