Monday 27 October 2014

Christmas Holidays!

Over the Christmas period the Quilt Club will be closed for a few weeks, while everyone spends time with their families and to give our fantastic Wendy a little rest.

       We will be closing on the 17th December  2014


Then re opening on the 14th January 2015

A quick reminder

This is a reminder that this week

 Wednesday the 29th October 2014, is our fantastic Felt workshop with Jo Shaw

If you are joining us for this super workshop you will need to bring with you

*an apron
*a clear plastic bag
*an old towel

That's it!!!!!!

 


Naughty Computer!!!!

Morning every one, well as I explained in the last blog, I was not at my dearly loved sewing session this week. To continue the blog lovely Cathy took some fantastic pics and sent them to me (thanks Cathy) but I have had a naughty computer and it didn't want to open the email, so these lovely pics have been sent to my nearest and dearest and half way around the world just so I could get them on my lap top!!! Finally after 3 days off faffing Ta Dar!! I managed to get them where I needed them so lets see what the lovely ladies got up to,

 
 
Jenny's brought her Bargello lap quilt to sandwich and then she will be
ready to quilt :)

 
Jenny also brought this beautiful black and white bed scarf!!
Ta Dar!!!!

 
Jenny has been a busy girl, she has also brought along this fabulous
Christmas table runner!
Ta Dar!!!!


One more for Jenny she has even had time to make this beautiful
pin cushion, she has used silk ribbon for the roses and pink and red embroidery
thread for the flowers.
Ta Dar!!!
 
 
This is Irene's king size log cabin quilt "Spring time in the garden"
this was free motion quilted on a domestic machine, by our dear friend Helen, 

 
This is the log cabin from the back, showing of the fancy quilting,
 

Gilly popped in with the eggs and some other lovely things to share with us,
She has won a first prize award for her moulded Beeswax!
Ta Dar!!!!
 
 
Gilly also had two highly commended awards, one for her Honey
and the other for her Hiney, Cherry and Sultana Cake.
Ta Dar!! Didn't she do well!

 
Gilly also brought with her some more of her wonderful hand
knitted socks, Cathy has already got her needles and wool ready and has borrowed
the pattern from Gilly and the great news (for Cathy) is that Gilly will help her if
necessary.
 
 
Wendy has been working on the beautiful owl pin cushion,
Isn't he a little cutie?
Ta Dar!!

 
and this is Wendy's fantastic, Red Work Wall Hanging
Ta Dar!!!!
 
 
Margaret has finished piecing her second
beautiful lap quilt

 
And has also prepared the back ready for sandwiching :)
 

This is just a quick pic of the latest four quilts heading to Linus
Finished by Cathy, Wendy and myself
 
That it for another week
 
See you soon
 
 
 
 

Tuesday 21 October 2014

Well today we have been busy like normal,

Maggie has been working very hard on her spring project, she has created this fantastic daffodil

 
and her brilliant loin, Tar Dar!!!

 
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Wendy has been working on yet another Linus quilt, this is a block
 which will be joining these..
 
 
cant wait to see this next week :)
 
 
Margaret has created this beautiful sewing machine cover,
Ta Dar!!!


Cathy is on her third Linus quilt!!
Well done
 
I've lost count now on how many beautiful quilts have gone to this
fantastic cause, but I will get a final total :)
 

Annette has been quilting her beautiful heart quilt 
nearly done!
 
 
Chris has been quilting her beautiful Christmas panel,
only 10 weeks to go!!
 
 
And me, well I've been working on my Christmas table runner :)
 
Well I'm not at quilting next week, thanks to a very poorly scheduled
harvest festival :(
 
but Cathy is going to send me lots of super photos, so the blog will continue :)
 
See you soon
xxx
 

Monday 13 October 2014

More Sewing!!!

Well we had a lovely surprise today, Marissabelle came to visit us :) she is looking very well and very excited to join us again in our little sewing group. She had a lovely time looking at all our different projects and catching up.

Lets see what we were up to,

 
Jenny has added this beautiful quilt to our Linus collection :)
Tar Dar!!!


Irene has been playing with dying fabric.
The blue is done with brusho,
the green with water colour paint and
the orange with intense pencils! WOW!!
 
 
Wendy has been fiddling again with her bits, and created these fantastic
pin cushion!! Tar Dar!!

 
Also Wendy has completed her beautiful table runner,
Ta Dar!!!!
 
 
Irene has been working on her fabulous Prairie points cushion
for her new sofa :)

 
Another beautiful Linus quilt made by Cathy, to add to our ever growing pile
Ta Dar!!

 
Chris is working on the fabulous panel :)

 
This is a close up of one of her favourite squares,
:)
 
 
This is Annie Pies wonderful quilt, it had been in a bag for
2 year 2 months! I'm so glad she got it out and put it together,
today she has added the boarders :)

 
Maggie has been working on a little project to create a lion!!
looking good! cant wait to see him finished!!!
 
That's it for today
 
See you soon xx
  
 

 

 

Sunday 5 October 2014

A quick Ta Dar!!!!!

This is an update on our fantastic Linus Day,

We made a total of 25 quilts and raised £156 towards our Vilage Hall,

A Massive THANK YOU! To all involved 

Friday 3 October 2014

Quick Reminder!

This is a little reminder that on

 Wednesday 29th October 2014 we are having out felt workshop with Jo Shaw
 
This will be another exciting day learning new things and skills, remember if you don't want to do the work shop there is plenty of space for everyone :) and if you are doing the workshop there is a few things you will need
 
                                     * an apron
                                     * a clear plastic bag
                                     * an old towel
 
That's it!!!!!


Balls!!!

Well we were very busy, this week Lynda very kindly did a workshop on Christmas baubles, and brought lots off lovely shiny things to :)

lets see how we got on
 
This is Lynda showing us what to do, she had created templates for us and did
an excellent job of explaining to us what to do :)
 
We made lots of beautiful baubles but had no place to display them!
so I spotted a small tree out side and it was perfect!!
 
 
So Tar  Dar!!!!!!!!

 
I never do things to plan so I made a snowman :) u cant really
see him on the tree so Tar Dar!!!

 
and a close up of the others :)

 
This is our little tree!!!! think we need to make a few more balls!!!
 
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Last week Wendy heard on Liverpool Radio about a World War 1 project for people
to help commemorate  Remembrance Day. It was to create sentiments, like the soldiers sent home
from France with a modern day embellishment.
 These will be put in a A5 card and displayed in Liverpool
 
 
 
These are Wendy's, Beautiful!!
 
 As we were discussing this project last week, Jenny said she would bring in her
embossing machine for us to have a look!
 
 
and wow this is what she created!

 
Thank you Jenny!!
 
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Right back to quilting! :)
 
 
Margaret has finished this fantastic quilt for her friend, Ta Dar!!!!!!


Wendy finished the communal Linus quilt with this lovely boarder  
Ta Dar!!!!!!
 


Cathy was busy quilting and binding her fab Linus Quilt
 
 
And Merilla has been working very hard on her beautiful Linus quilt
All hand sewed!!!!
 
 
Irene has been working on her lovely pillows


Beryl is making a birthday jumper for her grandson, can u guess how old he is?
 
 
and keeping with the Christmas theme, Kate finished off the afternoon
making these lovely Christmas stockings
 
Well I think that is everything for today it has been a busy one!!!
 
See you soon xx