don't we look young

Calendar

14th April -  RR's -  cutting and sewing strips for Hidden Wells

2nd May - retreat 

11th to  16th June - Sydney Quilt show

7th July - QQ's - probably handwork and finishing off Wells

20th to 24th August - Rosehill Stitches and Craft

12th to 14th Sept - Indulgence

29th Sept - basting quilts or Melitta's

6th Dec - FAB Xmas lunch

5th Jan 2009 - FAB day

January 17th

Well wasn't it a great day. Chris was totally surprised ... doesn't the quilt look gorgeous!  I received a delightful thimble bead ... can't fit any more beads on the bracelet now.  Cheryl also managed to select all of the fabrics for her Hidden Wells quilt and we have planned all of the dates for our whole year!  Talk about organised!

Thanks everyone for a top day.

January 17th

Remember to bring 40cm of your busy fabric for the retreat quilt.  I will need to get active and calculate how much of other fabrics we need to bring.  Shall put up some photos and fabric requirements for each..... check back soon

Tie Quilts

Another 'bright idea'.... I had collected what seemed like thousands of ties after writing to the Sun Herald 'You Asked' column. 

Where I expected enough ties for say three or four quilts I received enough for about twenty quilts.  As a group the FABs made two or three and Gerringong Quilters also made several.  The rest of the ties were packaged into a kit and sold at the Gerringong Quilt Show.  All proceeds went to Children's Medical Research.  I still have about twenty ties which I plan to do something  with ..... soon

Journal Covers

As you can see everyone was hard at work.  This was actually a very busy day as we also made a Blanket of Love Snowball quilt.  Chris enjoyed making the blocks so much she went and purchased a lovely kit using the same blocks in old fashioned soft lemons and pinks .... which will be finished in 2008!

Melitta's 50th - photo needed

For the next baby of the FABs Melitta also received a Girlz Stuff quilt.  Since it had been necessary to start all of the quilts around the same time and Melitta had only been quilting a short time it was difficult to decide what type of fabrics she would tend to favour.  The decision was simplified by the fact that all of my country fabrics were in a bag for RR's quilt, while the soft or florals were in another bag for MM's quilt.  This left either dull and boring civil war fabrics, horrid novelties, leftover bits and pieces or brights.  It was decided that as Melitta is such a happy person brights were the way to go.  This was a fun combination to work with as most of us hate working with brights and yet the final result is gorgeous.