Qld Quilter's Picnic at Gatton

Last Tuesday, a few car loads of our members visited the Gatton Historical site to attend the Queensland Quilters annual picnic.  Our club hosted the event in May last year, so it was good to see so many of our members supporting the Gatton picnic. 

 

 L - R  Diana, Marleen, Joan and Vicky

 Here are some of our ladies in front of one of the shops attending the picnic.  It was set up on the verandah of an old slab hut which was full of old furniture and bric a brac. (you could enter the hut from the rear to check out all the old stuff).

Here is the attempt at the Worlds Largest Quilt.  It is made up of many of thousands of hexagons which have been sent in from all over Australia and from around the world.  You can read more about the quilt and it's construction at the Sew Creative website.   It was hard to capture the enormity of the quilt on our little digital cameras.



Judy and Hazel admiring the quilt and looking for their hexagons?

 
The driving force behind the whole day, Gail Chalker from Sew Creative Gatton addressing the hundreds of quilters gathered around.

Found on the bed in the slab hut, a very old hexagon quilt covering an antique iron bed










Sheltering from the sun, Carol (L) and Barb (R).  Later on they would have needed the umbrella for the other reason.  No sooner had the crowd dispersed and the huge quilt was packed into a van, the clouds opened up.

Just one of the very quaint buidings on the historical site.  Contained in the blacksmith shop were all sorts of tools of the trade as well as an original forge,anvil and a very old bellows.

A fascinating journey into Australia's past and a great day out enjoyed by all.