'Twas the night before Christmas,

And the quilts were not made.

The threads were all tangled, the cookies delayed.

The stocking weren't hung, the pantry was bare.

The poor weary Quilter, was tearing her hair.

Stacks of fat quarters, tipped over in streams.

Visions of Log Cabins, had turned into dreams.

When what to her wondering eyes should appear,

But a bus full of quilters with all of their gear.

They went straight to work with just a few mutters,

Sorting and stitching and brandishing cutters.

The patterns emerged from all of the clutter,

Like magic the fabrics arranged in a flutter.

Log Cabins, Lone Stars, Flying Geese & Bear Tracks

Each quilt was a beauty-even the backs.

Her house how it twinkled, her quilts how they glowed.

The cookies were baking, the stockings were sewed.

Their work was all done, so they folded their frames,

And packed up their needles, without giving their names.

They boarded the bus, and checked the next address.

More quilts to be made, another quilter in distress 

She heard one voice echo, as they drove out of sight,

Happy quilting to all and to all a good night! 

~Author Unknown  

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at Sunbury Quilters see you in 2024

Another retreat done and dusted, we started with 8 attendees but due to illness we ended the retreat with 5 but we all had a productive time with lots of fun and lots and lots of talking. Below are some of our events and produce from the weekend.

Rosie visited Blackforest Quilting and picked up two of her quilts she had completed earlier, great job of patchwork and quilting.

                                      Cheryl  working on appliqué pieces and  Rosie working on her   Heart strings quilt

                                                                      Lunch on Sunday

                                            Robyn and Jan Relaxing and researching something.

                                        I couldn’t decide if this was Rosie’s or Annies block  but it is beautiful

                                                               Ann McW’s Indigenous Quilt

               Robyns Cushion pattern she is turning into a quilt by repeating the block beautiful hand piecing 

                                                                  Jan’s Quilt in progress

                                     Anns second indigenous quilt this one for her caravan.

Already looking forward to the next retreat but not until next year. 

Tuesday 19th September.

Today we had our Hands on Hands day with Leanne from Petals and Patches. What a fantastic day it was with lots of concentration happening and of course the usual chatter and lots of laughs with it.

11 ladies took part in the workshop.

Liberty Teacups Mug Mat

Everyone concentrating 

                                             excellent tutoring from Leanne from Petal and Patches 

Looking forward to show and tell in the coming weeks. 

Thank you to to all that attended and to Robyn for organising 

 

Tuesday 8th August

 I wanted to trial the blog as it has been very badly behaved and uncooperative. Yes I know it is probably the user.

This couple of photos came my way from the recent retreat

                                                                      Scrabble Queens

                                                                      Masterchefs

Congratulation all for another successful retreat.

I would like your support and patience with the blog. Great thanks to Anne for volunteering for the blog.  She took the photos tonight but bear with us while we iron out the gremlins

 Well another successful retreat over and done, what a fun filled four days we had.  Lots of projects done, some interesting conversations and the problems of the world we solved lol. Not to forget the yummy food consumed all weekend.  Below are the projects worked on and completed. 

Sandra working on her Gail Pan Embroidery

Jan Produced This beautiful quilt she is going to keep for herself beautiful work Jan fully patchworked and quilted over the retreat

Di worked on her chandelier quilt. Another stunning quilt beautiful colours 

Ann worked on this monster quilt with Kaffe Fasset fabrics it is a King  Bed quilt made for her daughters friend.

Cheryl worked on this project which she has had for a few years, it is now completed.  We all loved it.

Cheryl also completed her pin cushion just before she left for her cultural visit to the Ballet. 

Rosie brought along a completed quilt top to show us

Rosie worked on her Kilmore Quilters challenge quilt.  Beautiful work Rosie

Mary got this quilt back from Kerry the quilter so she quickly completed the binding 

Mary also completed this quilt top 

Exercise class for sore backs after long days at the machines
Some serious iPad words with friends gaming happening here.  

As you can see a good time was had by all. Robbie was there our Helping hand for all working out measurement,patterns and the never ending unpicking

I have to apologize for my tardiness in posting the blog but better late than never, I have included below some of the beautiful work our members have been working on over the past month.  

Fiona made this  quilt  for a family member and gifted  recently a beautiful job.

Just love the colour choices in this 

Work still being completed on our Sashiko.  

Sandra brought her Candlewicking quilts along for us to see unfortunately the photo did not do it justice but I can assure you it was beautifully done.

Caroline one of newest members brought in her current blocks she is working on as show and tell.

Cheryl showed us her compendium of small projects she is working on at the moment.

Sandra also had some small projects from a recent workshop she attended to show

Janice once again stunned us with her amazing work on another shawl.  Beautiful work Janice

Some more completed Sashiko projects after our workshop.
 

Fiona had one of her first ever quilts she made for her daughter with her as show and tell last night .  

Thank you Ladies we are always interested in what you are doing no matter how small or big.. if you are out and about and see something that may interest us send it thru and we will tell the other members.

27th June was our Hands on Hands day out with a workshop to show us how to do Sashiko.  It was a fun morning, with lots of laughter, chatting and snacking.  As you can see from the photos lots of concentrating was also happening. Hopefully we will see some finished samplers next Tuesday .   

20th June some belated show and tell.

Sheila brought along some more of her stunning fabric Art work this time inspired by their trip to Norfolk Island.  She is doing one for her Sister in laws and fellow travellers.

 This is a quilt we Robyn and Ann didn’t have a pattern for,  at our recent retreat so we sat down and drafted one.   Almost completed just the binding to finish.

 

 Apologies for the delay. Google locked me out and then sent text messages everywhere for me to recover it. Finally I am back in and now to update the blog. Life just gets harder or technology is getting beyond me. Once I finally got in it I couldn't access the photos! Nothing would upload!!! Maybe it is me. Any volunteers for blogging

                                                         

This is the Nutcracker I was going to give a friend for Christmas but I never finished it. So I am ready for next Christmas! It is a Helen Godden pattern which was fun to do, the character is painted and then quilted.

Margarets, Heartstrings Quilts custom quilted by quilted by Kerri at Macedon.   Many of us have made this quilt but it is just lovely. Margaret should be very proud of this one

                                          Ann Micaleff s quilt for her granddaughter who loves turtles. 

This is another one of my quilts. I completed it a while ago but have never put it on the blog. It is a Mandala quilt. The pattern was by Rachelle Denneney. It was a block of the month which took me most of last year. I quilted it myself on a domestic machine. It looks destined to live on the couch.