4th of July Stitching Hearts Style

We don't celebrate the American Independence Day here for obvious reasons.  Hope that if you did, it was a great holiday for you with lots of friends and family and food.

Meanwhile, we got together for the first meeting of July.  The most important business conducted was discussion on plans for our 20th anniversary celebrations.  Yep!  We have been going for 20 years.  We actually can't remember when the first meeting was held, but have decided it must have been mid winter in 2004.  One original member and 3 more who joined up within weeks still come to the meetings regularly.

We had some lovely quilts brought in, so enjoy.

First up were two gorgeous quilts given to us by Adele.  Her mother had received a quilt while in the Palliative Care unit at Concord Hospital, and Adele wanted to thank us this way.  This one is quite big, and has an enormous amount of work in it - embroidery, applique etc.

Here is a detail photo of part of the centre panel.

And one of the corners....

This one is quite different, but is also very detailed.

 And this was a donation from Toni

This cute butterfly one was made by our sister group, the Monday Quilt Group.

Just look at all the wonderful goodies on the woollens table.

The cutest little dog, with the patch on his eye!  

And a bundle of booties, flannel wraps and beanies.

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