February Newsletter

Date	Program	Requirements
Jan 19	Finish - Julie Latcham quilt or UFO	Choose your own
Feb 16	UFO Discussion about mystery project	Choose your own If you wish to participate in the mystery project please bring 4 fat quarters wrapped up so the fabric cannot be seen. You may use up to 1 meter  of a contrasting fabric of your choice to complete the project.
March 16	Pin wheel table runner or quilt AGM	Pin wheel ruler Fabric of your choice – dark, medium & light for best results. Backing fabric Pelon or wadding See Gail Clark to order a ruler.
April	No meeting – Easter
18th may	Quilts of love	Fabric of your choice to make a quilt of love for a baby. 1m X 1m finished.
23-25th May	23- 25 May Warwick group retreat.   Please come along its a great weekend. Please pay $50 deposit to Leonie at Stacey's At The Gap info@staceys.com.au (07) 4666 1240	Stacey’s at the Gap ASAP. Contact Jenny Gail for details. Bring your own projects to work on Full cost is $275.00, deposit is $50.00 per person.  The following have paid deposits Peg Pevy                    50.00 Sheena Kyte               50.00 Jo Warden                  50.00 Marg Siebenhausen   50.00 Jenny Morris               50.00 Ros Phillips                 50.00 Di Stork                       50.00 Margi Collins               50.00 Gail Toohey                50.00
31st  May 9.00am	Display- Julie Latcham quilts for 2 weeks and Baby quilts 1m x1m .	Meet at Library to hang quilts at 9.00 am .
June 15th	UFO	Choose your own
July 19th and 20th   2 day retreat in Goondiwindi	Kool Kats - guest Presenters Saturday At Community Centre	Fabric to cut for what ever item you wish to make – more details below.
August 17th	Debbie Magee - Pin cushion or Mug bag	Pattern and fabric, toy fill, threads, lace, button.
Sept 21st	To be decided
Oct 19th	UFO
Nov 16th	Christmas Party

Preparation for March’s meeting

We are doing the twister project in March.  Large or small whatever you planned but whatever it is you need to do some prep if you want to make progress on the day.

“ Rule of thumb – whatever the squares and border measure finished object will be one third smaller.”

All you have to do is sew your squares together and put your border on.

Whatever size you have chosen have your squares and borders together ready to cut.

Small template -  cut squares 5” with a 3” border.

Table runner - 3 down and as many as you like across plus border.

The placemat -  4 across and three down plus  the border.

Medium template - cut squares6 ½” and border 4”  

Large template - cut squares 10” with 6 ½” border.

Next month Gail Clark who has been president for quite a while is retiring …. Gail has done a wonderful job inspiring us by finding new and interesting activities to be involved in. Thank you so much Gail for everything you have done.  It appears we may need new office bearers this year. It would be great to see as many as possible at our AGM in March.

 Enjoy your sewing 

Jenny

January Meeting

January's meeting saw us have the best roll up for a long time. Chris even bought her granddaughter who is making a beautiful colourful batik quilt. She did very well for a novice quilter.

Passing on the skills . Dawnie  and Gail watching over.

A confident young stitcher.

The progress. Well done young one.

A  Quilt Story

Sometimes our quilts finish up in very special places.  Gail Clark's son,  Aaron asked his mum, (the president of our group) if she would make a quilt for his  friend... So she did.... little did Gail know Arron's friend wanted to give the quilt to the outgoing Governor General, Mrs Quentin Bryce as a parting gift.

The Presentation

Aaron with his friend and the Governor General's husband.

2014

Another year to create some great projects.  Macintyre quilters and stitchers meet this weekend. Sunday the 19th January at St Marys parish centre behind the  church. 

This week will be a UFO meet. That is finish anything you can but we would really like to see the quilts from the Julie Latcham "CowPaddocks Patchwork" finished. 

If you have finished please bring them for photographing.   Please bring along some ideas for this year so we set up our planner.

See you Sunday 

Vee has completed hers... great work 

jenny has completed hers ....a little bit of Christmas 

Vee's Placemats

Vee emailed these photos a week or so ago and any finish is worth celebrating.  

Vee has finished her placemats and posted them off to their lucky owner.  

Vee has not been sewing long as one of her first projects she decided to make these quite difficult placemats for a friend or may be a relative, I'm not sure now.

The main thing is she had finished them.  Well done Vee!  Lovely colours.

The placemats were done in a diamond shape.

One UFO crossed off

Work Shop Weekend

What a great weekend. Our workshop with Julie Latcham was very creative and a lot of fun.  Julie is from Cow Paddocks Patchwork. See the blog before for links and more details.

We had 17 ladies over the weekend for the workshop ...It was a good number. Lots of laughs and it was just fun to spend the day with a group of like minded ladies doing something we all enjoy. .... patchwork.

Thanks to Gail Clark for organising the weekend. Thanks to Vee for making salad and to anyone who cooked or prepared food for us to share. The florentine slice was so scrumptious...mmmm .

Thanks to Julie for travelling and RADF for the funding.

Almost everyone got their quilt centre sorted. There we so many different appliqué designs.  It always astounds me how one pattern or design can change so much through colour or a little creative licence. Hope to see Jan, Peg and Robyn back next year.

On Saturday night we all got together for our Christmas party at The Victoria Hotel. 

Julie at work demonstrating her techniques

Jenny's children's Christmas quilt

Gail T's trendy fashion quilt with some appliquéd shoes from Anni Downs'"Some kind of Wonderful"

Jo W's red heart quilt

top L I think this is Robyn's then Nancy's and bottom L  Vee's and Heathers (I think, let me know if i am wrong girls and I will amend the caption.

some quilt centres

Merilyn's Quilt

I think is is  Di S'  

Margie's I think

 Merilyn, Robyn, Heather, jenny ,Jo,Di,Robyn, Gail, Margie C, Margie S, Nancy and Julie.

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A great result for the day. All quilts are hoped to be finished byJanuary's meeting. Merry Christmas to all . There is no December meeting. 

Please  ladies if I have messed up who's is who please let me know and I will amend the captions.

Julie's Workshop 16th and 17th November 2013

 Fabrics Required for quilt workshop-
If you want to make this quilt you will need



centre - 2 x 24 " squares contrasting (black and white)
grass stems- 50 cms green  1 or 2 colours
variety of scraps for applique
80 cms (green) to appliqué on white borders
First border-        black 50 cm
Second border -  black 60 cm
corner blocks   -  white triangle pieces  (4)  60 cms
large border -      white  1. 3 m
corner blocks   -  Black 35cms.
4th border ( not shown )  80 cms black
Bind    80 cm  ( black)
fusible pelon and visolfix ( applique adhesive)

Remember the colour scheme is up to you i have indicated colours to help you determine which amounts are for where in relation to the picture.

After some consultation and deliberation and a bit of working out we have decided to put the Julie Latcham workshop on the 16th and 17th November.  A few of us couldn't attend on the original date so Gail very kindly reorganised things and thanks to those ladies who didn't mind changing. 

 This is our major workshop for the year where we have a guest tutor so its best we have as many attend as possible.  The saturday night ( 16th)  will also be our Christmas Party. We will go to the Victoria Hotel for dinner together.

This workshop is fully funded by the Regional Arts Development Fund  (RADF ) .  We have to hold a display of the work when its completed. The workshop will cost $ 20 per day.

This is to cover hall hire and the majority of the lunch and we will have  to bring some salad and morning and afternoon tea as normal.

It is at the Golden Age Centre   8.00am till 4.00pm Saturday  and 8.00 to 3.00pm Sunday.  Julie will take 20 in the workshop so if you haven't signed up please do it  ASAP to ensure a place. It will be advertised in the argus next week.

We want you to know  that you dont have to make a quilt. You can make smaller items to learn the technique. ( Wall hanging, table runner, placemats etc, A  24 " cushion you can also come along and work down the end of the hall doing your own sewing while watching the quilt being  created. There is a lot of flexibility here. Your appliqué can be of your own choice. Colours and design can be the same of any you want to do yourself. The pictures below show some quilts being made the Moonie Fine Arts group.

Julie is "Cow Paddocks Patchwork".