Wonderful weekend...

I hope you have had a wonderful weekend! I'm just back from solid sewing time with friends, food and frivolity!!

I finished putting the scallops border on my vintage-look Jane A. Stickle quilt and gave it to Mum for quilting (borders not shown, it's just good to have a photo of the whole quilt top).

I finished piecing together the red white yellow cherries quilt top - silly me! I didn't take a picture yet!

I machine quilted and bound the Celebrate December wallhanging - it really is finished!

I sewed the label on the group Charity quilt.

I have nearly finished the French Collection Stitcheries (working on the last one).

I pieced the backing fabric for the 2007 Mystery Quilt and gave it to Mum to quilt. There was room to spread the quilt top out for a photo of the whole top. How is that red border?

Jo made a Disappearing 9-patch using the Lucinda's Needle fabric.

Di finished stitching her Christmas tablerunner. The little pictures are tres chic!

As the December quilt is finished, this means I have room on my list of four projects to work on:

red white yellow cherries baby quilt (needs quilting)

Kaffe and Liberty tumbling blocks (needs binding)

Civil War hand-pieced hexagons (until I get a quilt from Mum that needs binding)

French Collection stitcheries (quilt top needs piecing, waiting for fabric)

The list of four seems to be helping... now I just need another retreat weekend to finish a few more things!! LOL!!

Charity Quilt

My quilting group alternate each year between holding an exhibition and making a quilt for charity. This year we wanted to contribute to the "really local" community. The Kuwanis group run many programs that support youths in our area. As a fundraiser they are holding an Art Show in September. Our quilt will be a major prize in the raffle. The quilt is titled "Heritage Sampler: Celebrating Our Past" designed by Lori Smith. It was a great choice for a group quilt - beginners pieced the half-square triangles in the border while intermediates pieced a block, needle-turn appliqued a block or pieced the top together.

Here is the quilt ready for the binding. The longarm quilting was donated by Deep Creek Quilting in Carisbrook,Victoria.

We need to attach the binding, photograph the quilt and have it valued so the value can be printed on the raffle tickets.