Our "Round Robin" projects travel far

I love this photo of my "Round Robin" quilt top on Eileen's gorgeous wingback chair.
A few years ago about 11 members of our club made these quilt tops, each secretly adding a border to every quilt in the circle.
I chose a Christmas theme for mine and was thrilled at the final presentation to see all the lovely Seasonal fabrics and cheery colours the girls had used in it.
Well of course I put it away planning to quilt it in time for Christmas....didn't happen.
Then I won a PIF gift from Eileen at Robin Hill Quilts  and she offered to quilt a top for me. I was blown away by such a generous offer. So into a postbag and off to USA where Eileen photographed and posted it's arrival on her blog. It looks so at home on her lovely red and white plaid chair. I'm so excited about this, Eileen is a magnificent quilter. How lucky am I?

Patch Day Out

The road to Keith's farm.

The farmhouse sits in lovely gardens.

As usual there was plenty to eat but a few flies (it is the country, after all)

so the wrappings stayed on for the photo.

Now here's a happy group.

Some days are just perfect aren't they?

Today we went to Keith's farm to share lunch, chat and indulge in a little hand sewing. The weather was divine and Keith's garden, a delight. How can he maintain such a beautiful garden AND look after his farm. Green thumbs for sure.

While we strolled around the lawns, took in the magnificent views across to the ocean and soaked up the sunshine, Beth's husband, John went off to help Keith with the sheep work. That's a change for a man of the sea like John.

When we gathered on the wide verandah for lunch, recipes were exchanged and quilting projects admired. It was lovely to meet Keith's Mum and her friend Anne who had driven up from Perth to share the day.

Thanks so much Keith for inviting us to your beautiful property and special thanks to Ros who did all the planning.

A truly fabulous day.

This Saturday

"Sunrise in Dongara"


Are you planning to come along to the Club Friendship Day on Saturday 29th August?
We have been invited to Keith T's farm to enjoy a quilty day of chatting and eating.


If you need directions on how to get there, send me an email ASAP. This property is gorgeous and if the weather is kind to us we can be guaranteed a fabulous day. Dont forget to bring some hand sewing and a plate to share for lunch and afternoon tea.


Arrive at 11am to be sure not to miss any of the fun.
Hope you can make it.

Coffee & Cake

Any one for coffee and cake? This is my favourite sort of baking...no calories!

Don't you love Christmas in July?

This is the scene before us as we arrived for our meeting last night.

The tables had been set with all sorts of delightful decorations, themed to colour, a tree stood in the corner and supper of a beautiful Christmas cake and some of the most delicious shortbread you could ever eat was laid out in the kitchen for later..
Helen had volunteered to do the preparations and she certainly did herself & us proud. The scene as we arrived was like a fairyland of lights twinkling and sparkling against the dark wintery sky. I heard that she had corralled her lovely son Shaun to help with the heavy work and along with Sue N, Yvonne and Loris, this team of clever people produced an amazing display. We are lucky to have so many creative and sharing people in our club.
We were all asked to bring along our Christmas "Chantelle" and a few were actually organised enough to have some. Some good ideas for future projects there!
Thanks Helen and team for putting this on for us, we all appreciate your magnificent effort.

Ugly Quilt Contest

Voting is over for the Ugly Quilt Contest. I think I came second (which may or may not be a good thing).
Thanks to those who voted for me, I really appreciated the support from my friends and it is nice to know I've probably won a prize as I'm not lucky with raffles.
See you on Thursday night with my Row x Row blocks all done and ready to swap.
Sue xx

Just a little reminder

We are now smack bang in the middle of the school holidays and before we know it, August will be here and the club members will be looking for the next newsletter. So if anyone is able to write about some of the things they have done since May, I'd be delighted.
I'd especially welcome a little report on the friendship day with the Geraldton club ladies. Deadline is July 31st and you can email me or drop it into me at work .
Otherwise it will be a lean old newsletter with lots of white space or worse still, pages of my incessant babble. Now that's something to avoid.
Thanks for helping out with this....cheers from Sue