Christmas Gathering

Tracee very kindly invited myself and Carleen to join the City Girls and the Gisborne Girls for a sit and sew and Xmas lunch yesterday. We had two games, much laughter and a Kris Kringle.

Elyte and Annie unwrapping and dice throwing during the first game

Maxine and Tracee watching

Carleen, Anne, Robyn and Elyte

Marina and over the back Julie by Tracee

Maxine putting on her special Xmas glasses

Our second game, wrapping a parcel using one hand each

It was not easy keeping one hand behind  your back!

Margaret stepped in to hold the spare hands!! 🤣

We had a lot of laughs during this, the first game was unwrapping a present while wearing oven gloves while the next  person tried to throw a 6 on a dice.

That was very funny to watch too.

Tracee's beautiful tree.

Here are the Kris Kringle swaps

And the all important group photo! Such a wonderful group of women.

Happy stitching.  😊 

Cutting and pinning

Today I have trimmed the two quilts for others and cut the binding, they are all ready to go

the Aussie hero quilt has been sandwiched and is ready to be quilted

I have a date with the sewing machine this afternoon!

Yesterday the St Leonards sewing group went out for our Christmas lunch, we went to Basils Farm, which is on the road to Queenscliff. They have amazing vege gardens and fruit trees here

this is the view from the vege gardens to Swan Bay

Happy quilters

Wendys lunch

my lunch, We had a great lunch with  lots of laughter and chatting.

I had better go find that sewing machine.

Happy sewing.

Christmas

is here too soon!! Today was the first Christmas gathering, it was with the Bellarine Quilters. We had a great lunch at the Port Arlington pub. But first we met at the community centre and had show and tell of Christmas things people had made, I got photos of a few

Margaret made this amazing Father Christmas, the bead work is beautiful.

This wall hanging was made to keep cross stitch pieces that came in cards to one of the ladies, she didn't want to throw them out and one the back are cross stitches from birthday cards. Lovely way to keep memories.

Carlene makes these fairy jars with her grand daughters. They could have a Santa silhouette and red background for Christmas. 

Lovely stockings and containers.

We had our Christmas block swap today

the choosing has started, I got into trouble for not taking the block on the top...woops!! I liked the colours in the second one down!

Walking around the table and taking one block from each pile with Kath.

and this is what I came home with, the challenge now is to make it into a quilt! Great collection isn't it?

After the swap we headed off to the pub

here we all are

the meals arrived

Cheers!!!

We had a great outing today.

I have just realised the time, so I had better get some dinner sorted, hubby will fade away...well no probably not as he has just found the salt and vinegar chips!!

Happy stitching.