Tuesday at Quilting

This past Tuesday was a regular day at quilting group.  We had a good number of members come along considering the cold, drizzly, foggy, overcast weather.  It was a shared lunch day for June birthdays and, as usual, the ladies excelled themselves with the food on offer.

We had ladies busy at work.

Judy D working on another of her bright and colourful crazy quilt blocks.  Judy is just recovering from an ‘incident’ with her sewing arm, so she was so happy to be back and into sewing again.

Carol Fr busy sewing and talking at the same time – multi tasking?
Some wonderful show and tell was on display also.

Ineke brought along her extraordinary embroidered sewing bag to show us.  As you can see, it won the champion ribbon at the Toowoomba Show.  Deservedly so.
Each side of the bag is exquisitely embroidered.  Here are some close ups.The house is a pocket.
This young lady carries a basket with a thimble inside and underneath that is a sweet little needlecase.
This beautiful tree holds a little bird nest made from a tiny straw hat and holds some weeny teeny clay eggs.

Ineke used a pattern from an Inspiration Magazine and change it up here and there.  Wonderful, wonderful work, Ineke!!
We were also shown this stunning Japanese themed quilt by Trisha W.

The colours are not very true in this photo.  The quilt is superb in real life.  It has been professionally custom quilted and is truly beautiful.

Here are some close ups of the colourful, tiny sashiko Trisha has worked on some of the blocks. 


Trisha also showed us her chook quilt.  The top middle rooster is one she designed herself.  It is a lovely bright cheerful quilt.

Wonderful quilts, wonderful company – a lovely way to spend a Tuesday.