It was great to see so many happy quilters at the Vintage Car Club rooms attending All Comers Day. Dianne, Kath and Jane spent some time stitching the hexagon flowers onto the raffle quilt, and Lynn joined in a little later.
There were all sorts of projects being worked on around the hall. Sewing machines were humming along, hand stitching was being done, applique flowers were being traced and cut out, and fabric squares were being cut. Marjorie was stitching the diagonal rows together on her very graphic black and white with a touch of red rail fence blocks.
Marjorie’s rail fence
Margaret was busy machine quilting her 18 year old grand son’s quilt. He had quite a say in this project, and went along to the quilt shop with Margaret to chose his own fabrics! Susan was also machine quilting, working on a pretty pink and gold star quilt for Thimblelinas.
Margaret and Susan were machine quilting
Madalyn spent most of the day tracing and cutting out applique flowers. These were to go on the border of her kitty cat quilt, she said. Later in the afternoon the flowers were all laid out and pinned in place, and looking gorgeous.
Madalyn’s cat quilt
What else was happening? Both Jackie and I were hand quilting, Jackie’s quilt was a colourful Laura Birch panel. And I was Big Stitch hand quilting my NZ Botanical quilt.
Two hand quilting projects
Gillian was working on a quilt for her and hubby’s 40th Anniversary, a Double Wedding Ring quilt in shades of green with cream.
Gillian’s 40th Anniversary quilt
I packed up and headed for home at 3.30pm, after working on two of the three projects I had taken along. I had a lovely day doing some slow stitching, and catching up with other club members. Thanks ladies, for your company.
Jenny Benton
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