New Committee and Technique nights continue

 Recently we held our Annual General Meeting at which all positions were deemed vacant. A bit of shuffling and interest by newer members and all the positions were filled.

President - Bryony De La Motte

Vice President - Christine Ashley

Treasurer - Chris Gillespie

Secretary - Di Challen

Committee - Monika McKinlay, Cassandra Philpot, Amanda Pratt and Narell Smit

During our meeting, we have Show and Tell, we display the recent Blocks of the Month, we get news of club doings and discuss future activities and then we have supper with a cuppa and have a chat.

On the second Friday of the month, we generally have a Technique Night. This time Cassandra gave a demonstration of measuring, cutting, pinning and sewing on borders so that they lay flat. She also demonstrated her method of adding measured mitred corner borders. She also showed how she makes her hanging sleeve, which will be required on all quilts going into the various shows coming up.

If you would like to join an active group of quilters to share your skills and enjoy social occasions, come along to the club on any Friday night or on the second or fourth Thursday morning of the month.

Save The Date!

 After much crystal ball gazing and finding out when the next AQC in Melbourne is on, we have settled on the dates for our next biennial Quilt Exhibition.

Queanbeyan Quilter's next Exhibition will be held over the weekend of 27 + 28 April 2024, with our special catered Opening Night being held on Friday 26 April.

The club is now working hard on the raffle quilts, gearing up to make our own quilts, to make gorgeous items for the Sales Table for you, and try to organise a seamless, smooth and attractive event that everyone will enjoy.

If not before, see you in April at the Exhibition!

 

What a great club

One of the marvellous things about our club, and there are many, is that we share things and join in. Examples include putting on a major exhibition with just a few people going beyond, making really interesting blocks of the month to put together for gift quilts, donating goods to go to worthy causes, making lovely items for sale, sharing techniques and quilting knowledge: and the list goes on.

Starting with our Red White and Black block of the month that ran last year, the tops have been assembled by several members, all in different styles. Our long arm quilters will quilt them over the coming months. Then the quilts will be added to our Gift Quilt program.

A very recent evening saw two members who have been overseas to India and Bali together on fabric hunting and collecting trips. Christine held the audience captive with stories and information which accompanied her excellent slideshow.  Maryanne added extra information and presented samples for everyone to touch and also provided some lovely Indian sweet treats to have with coffee. They enthusiastically shared their shopping experiences and had plenty of 'eye candy' as show and tell. A really great evening was had by all.

Sandra gave a well-attended workshop on how to do foundation piecing on New York Beauty blocks. Club members are now making a number of blocks to add to the centre piece shown here for a very important quilt in our calendar: making the raffle quilt for the next Exhibition 12-14 April 2024.

In January we started our new Shapely Block of the Month. Each month, we pick a shape and a colour and members all make blocks using that criteria. A small piece of common fabric is given out to everyone participating; the block is 12.5" (12" finished) square but because the red white and black quilts showed the half size blocks to such advantage in their layouts,  6.5" blocks for this BOM are encouraged too!