Still Swapping

Our club paper bag swap with Club Quilt Narromine is alsmost over. There is just one parcel left to arrive and sadly it appears to have been swallowed by the big bad PO. Sorry to all our loyal hard working posties but we have to blame somebody. While talking about this  I suddenly realised it's been a while since I did a catch up post of these goodies. Here's a few to feast your eyes on.

I've pinched some pics from clubquilt's blog. Sorry Peg!
Here's the lovely box Rosemary sent to Fiona.

The gorgeous Christmas wall hanging from Karri to Linda.

This fabulous folder from Dale to Loris.

and the quirky bag from Loris to Dale.

Two special goodies from Pat to June.

There are still a few to show and of course the lost one to cry over.

A lesson in quilting

The Patch invited Lesley Finch to visit us yesterday. Lesley owns Finchs Nest our LQS, if you count 70kms away as local! The purpose of her visit was to let us absorb as much of her knowledge of free motion quilting as we could and we weren't disappointed. A whole day with Lesley had us all stitching swirls and feathers, zigs and zags all over the practice quilts we'd pinned up ready.
Pay attention girls, we are ready to begin.

Gather round and see what you'll be doing by the end of the day.

Set up your machines just so!

This is how to mark your design.

See it's so easy.

Now quilt away........Lesley did emphasise the need to practice lots, persevere, plan ahead and  RELAX!

We had a great day, thanks so much Lesley for sharing your know how with us all.

Big things are going to happen this Saturday

It will be busy this Saturday when a bunch of us from the Patch gather to learn some new tricks.
Lesley Finch from Finches Nest is coming to show us some quilting pointers. We have her for the whole day and are bound to learn heaps.
We've all been busy preparing our practice quilts. Plain light coloured fabrics all marked out and pinned up ready to go.
Two more sleeps WooHoo!

Friends

came to share in a Friendship Day yesterday.

The Patch was so pleased to invite quilters from Geraldton and Mingenew clubs to share the day with us, Sandi drove the bus full from Gero.

There was food to feast on and plenty of "Chantelle" to feast our eyes on too.

The display was a treat with quilts hanging from every available thing and the chantelle was a source of inspiration for everyone.

Some of these quilts are prizes to be raffled and some are winners at quilt shows. Some are much loved favourites and some newly finished projects.

Dorothy and Jocelyn are cousins. They remember visiting this house as children and Dorothy brought along a photo of herself taken in 1935. She was standing under this exact tree 75 years ago!

Then after a lovely day of friendship our visitors piled back onto their bus and we waved them farewell.

The Patch is getting a new Roof

So for the time being we're gathering in the local hall and hand stitching

Lots of hands and lots of stitching, knitting, tracing, laughter and photography!

Badges

Here's an idea to take up.

Mary and I were getting a few too many quilt club badges to keep track of .
We've made  weeny little quilts to pin them to.