Tuesday, 20 April 2021

More for April

Not much business in this week's meeting, other than a discussion on the need for more wadding, and backing fabrics, and other quilting supplies.  We have a lot of fabric donations but not much of it is large enough to use as backing for our quilts.  And wadding disappears at a great rate.

Quilts were dropped off to Concord Palliative Care Unit last week.  These were well received as they were getting low on supply.

We selected some lap quilts today to be delivered to Greenwich Hospital Palliative Care unit. 

Some interesting and unusual quilts came in this week.

First cab off the rank for Show and Tell this week is one made by Lynn M and donated to us.  Thank you Lynn for your continued support.


Some sweet little baby booties.....



and some beanies and scarves.


You could be forgiven for thinking these are interesting prints on a fabric....


But just look at this tricky cutting and piecing!  Isn't it fabulous?  The careful cutting on the pattern repeat makes this look like a single piece of printed fabric.  The technique is called Magic Stack and Whack.
















And here is a crumb quilt.  Have you ever made one??


Just take a look at how tiny these pieces are!








Lucky last is a gorgeous log cabin quilt in purples and mauves.




Saturday, 10 April 2021

April Fool

I have always wanted to say that!! Ha ha.  The meeting was no joke though.  

A quilt has been delivered to St Patrick's Church, Mortlake to be raffled at a dinner on the 30th April as a fund raiser for a disabled car for one of the parishioners. 

A couple of members have made up eye masks which will be going to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

15 quilts, 3 beanies and 9 scarves were taken to St Mary's Villa last week.  We hadn't given them quilts for a while and this lot were received very enthusiastically.  We decided we should give them some more as they become available.

We decided that we should give some more quilts to Kara Women's and Children's Shelter at Gosford, so 6 adult quilts were selected to be delivered next week.

As our meeting happened to be on the day before Easter, our lovely member Bev, who bakes for us almost every time we meet presented us with these gorgeous cupcakes.  Isn't she a gem?


The first quilt today was made by our friend Sue from Friday Quilters:






You could be forgiven for thinking that I was batty and am showing you 2 photos of the same quilt.  But look closely and you'll see that they are different.





And here are the last 3 (I think) quilts made from the blocks we all made earlier this year.







That's all for now.  See you next time.