Sit n chat!

 This is what we’ve been getting up to lately at Saturday Sit n Sew!

Here’s Judy with an old favourite.  She’s completed all of the hexagons and is just sewing the rows together.  Judy was offered much advice on how to do the borders and, of course, within a group of quilters there was a large number of suggestions!  

Gail is working on a beautiful Dresden Plate with a difference wall hanging for a friend.  She’s worked out  how to perfect it now so is going to make another for herself!

Scraps for Di!  She’s been sewing this quilt for some time so I suspect it’s going to be BIG!

Annie C is working on this lovely project from the book 101 Fabulous Small Quilts.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture of the part she’d sewn wrong.  Oh hi Annie, didn’t see you there!

Here I am planning quilts.I’m going to make three teenage friendly half square triangles quilts.  I love graph paper!  I’ve since finished the top on the one I’m working on in that picture and have started the other on that page. Why, oh why, did I decide to do THREE half square triangle quilts???  I’m beginning to dream of half square triangles!

Here’s Kate sewing little itty bitty blocks together to make a border for a medallion quilt.  Annie C showed her how to “Pop” the seams in the middle so that they lay flat.  There are lots of videos available if you want to give it a try.  And Kate showed us how she uses paper as a leader instead of fabric when you need to prevent your machine from eating your fabric!

These tiny knitted cardigans were made by a friend and Mary is busy sewing buttons on them.  Mary later did some of her own knitting.

Debbie is making a medallion/round robin style quilt for her granddaughter. The border she’s working on now features half Dresden Plates.

Here are Karen, Carolyn and Andrea having a chat.  Karen is working on Judy Newman’s French Medallion quilt. Carolyn is sewing a Dahlia quilt and Andrea is knitting socks!

Ooh show and tell!  Everyone gathers around whenever a quilt or a quilt top comes out of a bag!

This one is Karen’s.

Andrea made this Sew Together bag.  She enlarged the original pattern.

Di completed her California Laundry Basket quilt and here it is posing with Annie’s slightly smaller version.  Are any of you going to sew the new Laundry Basket mystery?

Gail made this lovely quilt for her granddaughter.  She quilted it using an orange peel design.  I love this quilting design as it’s almost like sewing straight lines and yet you end up with circles!

Here’s Annie’s Mysolation quilt.  It was a mystery quilt a lot of people completed during lockdown.

And for an extra bonus here are a couple of shirt challenge quilts!  We’ve seen Kate’s Drunkards Path quilt before but here it is with Aunty Pam and the ladies of St Mark’s Church Op Shop, Balannaring where Kate’s shirts came from.

I previously showed you what I thought was Anne Mc’s shirt challenge.  It turned out to be the back!  How lovely was the back?!  Well, here’s the front!