Scrub Stitch'ng

Another retreat has safely come to an end, we had dress up night and swap and more sewing!

Deana, Sharymane and me

Christine, Deana  Sharymane and me.

We are outside 'cos we were heading for our outside group photo

Here we all are

and another I took from Chooky's blog

Friday afternoon show and tell , this might be a Janice quilt

Another two quilts from Janice 

Another beautiful Janice quilt

Another Janice quilt, made from a fabric book panel

Guess what? Another Janice quilt, I plan to make this one day...🤭

Last one from Janice  a lovely hexie number.

Stephanie's beautiful mountains and volcano quilt 

Miranda made this quilt 2 years ago for one of her sons, we figured out the elephant using foundation paper piecing. Not bad for her second quilt.

Di made this amazing quilt

Beautiful toys made by Christine, Sharymane and Kylie.

Gnomes by Sharmayne

Loved this one 

My show and tell, photo acquired from Janice

Raewyn's show and tell (again from Janice)

our goodies bag

Sunset, well I think I missed the best of it

Then it was Friday evening dress up night, the Theme was favourite book character 

The mother from The Dressmaker chatting to the Queen of Hearts and Miss Marple.

Not sure of the character on the left and Bridget Jones 

A whole group of Where's Wally's.. ......these are the lovely ladies from Utah, Evelyn, Deana, Lori and Phyllis. In Utah the character is known as Waldo

The Gruffalo, with the Dilly's. (Character's in the books by Dilly Court)

Noddy and the Gruffalo.

With my swap gift, colour book and bag of pens! Great gift.

Swap I made and Janice received.

Janice.

Ursula hugging the Wally's

Ann Marie as one of the Bridgerton characters Lady Danbury. How good is her dress, she made it herself.

The spider swallowing Lady (Jo) and Ursula

I will stop here as this is super photo heavy.

Happy stitching.

Gisborne retreat day 2

Lots of sewing and fabric appreciation has happened today

my blocks are all finished, tomorrow they will be sewn together

Tonight's dinner, will have  to fix the photo at home

Maxine's show and tell today, a beautiful quilt top she is still working on.

Maria has made a heap of progress with her quilt top started by her daughter 20 years ago.

Margaret has been making children's quilts to go to Jan Mac for children affected by the fires...front

And back

Another Margaret quilt, front

And back.

Maxines wall hanging, it is now finished.

The back of another Margaret quilt, I missed the front. I have managed to have a walk morning and afternoon today so made my daily steps, pretty happy with that.

Time for bed for me now, more tomorrow.

Happy stitching

Baradine - Show and tell

 There was a lots of beautiful show and tell at Baradine, 

Janice has done a wonderful blog post on show and tell, you can see it all by clicking on her name.

I put together and bordered this quilt, I was given the blocks by a lady at the Guild who makes many quilts for the Royal Children's Hospital, she will not quilt it and return it for someone in the Guild to bind.

I made these two quilt tops, based on the 10 Fat quarter pattern - I had two fat quarter packs with 10 in each so added two fat quarters from my stash to get twelve blocks to make an even quilt. This pattern is a great way to use fat quarters and not have any waste.

The little jeans legs bags are another step closer to a finish with the top bindings all done

Sorry this is sideways - I was given this  panel and another it goes with - I layered the panel, wadding and black felt and free motioned around the figures. I will cut them out with pinking shears and glue a hanger on the back. Then I need to quilt the backing they go on.

This was my swap gift, a candle and thread. The candle now lives in the ensuite and smells wonderful.

The swap gift I made when to Maureen, she loves elephants! It was a kit I bought in when I was at a quilt show in January. I also included some locally made chocolates and ginger bread sea horses.

I think that wraps up Baradine for this year.

Happy stitching.