Gisborne retreat week

This week I have been in Gisborne,  we arrived Monday lunchtime after stopping to see Tracee at Hummingbird Quilting to drop if quilts to quilt.

This was the sunrise the morning i left 

We have all being sewing away

I have made a quilt top from blocks made by Jan from Bellarine Quilters 

We were one block short so Margaret kindly made a block for me

I was going to put in a solid block but that got vetoed! 😃

Margaret's quilt she put together, fabrics from a quilty friends who passed recently.

Maria made a strip quilt

Carkeen is making Pea in a Pod blocks

Another quilt top I put together with blocks made by Jan

Anither quilt top finished by Maria

Karen's quilt, she is working on the binding

More of Jans blocks put together by Judy, this one is stunning!

Strip quilt made by Judy

A quilt top Margaret put together, blocks made by Jan,  border found in the retreat bins, I have to find another border to try and make it a little bigger.

Another quilt top made by Maria 

I am now seeing hexis, but heading off to bed soon with a  a cuppa.

Home tomorrow afternoon.

Happy stitching.

Scrub Stitchin'

Lots of sewing and chatting and eating has been happening with a walk in the morning before it gets too hot, yesterday was 30 deg C and today looks like it will be the same.

Late the first evening, the room had emptied out.

Kylie's supplies for unpicking (I have visited already😁)

Conversation happening Chooky  Betty and the girls from the US

Evelyn very bravely tried Vegemite

No, not a happy taster

Photo for proof!!

Chooky, Phyllis and Lori

Lori, Evelyn, Jo, Phyllis and Janice.

Happy stitchers - again thanks to Janice.

Phyllis  me, Deana

Jenny finished her quilt top

Deana finished her last foundation paper pieced block for the evening.

Fuzzy morning walk photo, cockatoos and galah

No idea what this is but I liked the colour

Walking view at the camp.

Back to sewing the hexies now.

Happy stitching.

Gisborne Retreat day 3

We had another busy day of sewing and chatting, I managed to get in 2 short walks

More stitching is happening on the hexie quilt

Christine has gathered squares from the throw out box here on retreat and has this four patch top ready to be sewn together

Maria has her Peas In a Pod quilt top together

Carleen has started a Zig Zag quilt, you start with a pentagon and add pieces ro each side and then trim back, is going to look  very effective

Judy has pieced another top from pieces left over from another quilt

Sue has cut and gathered hundreds of little circles and is now applliquing them to little squares 🙄

Maxine is adding more blocks to her Zig zag quilt top

For dinner we had baked potatoes and for desert we had pavlova, my favourite.

Off to do a little more sewing.

Happy stitching.

Some finishes

 Finns quilt is finished and he now has it to play on, he likes both the front and back

so much colour and things to look at.

I have been working on a pincushion from a kit I got from Bittern by the Bug recently, the owner of the business is coming to the Guild to talk to us next year, she imports vintage Japanese fabrics. 

A slightly better photo this time 😀

and the top

it has felted wool top and bottom

My quarter inch hexies have gone from 

this

to

this.

At Bellarine Quilters we were challenged to make a name tag to be shown at our Christmas lunch.

Turns out only four of us have made one so it has been cancelled 😕

Oh well four of us still get to have new name tags I guess.

I am off to get some breakfast, maybe do some gardening or maybe start on an Aussie Hero quilt, or do some more quilting on the Red Tractor fabric or another project that needs quilting - so many choices!!!

Have a good weekend and happy stitching.