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!

Sewing bags

Photos needed here also.

Another successful sewing day.  Everyone managed to successfully make their sewing caddies, proving that sometimes my ideas do work and my instructions aren't totally hopeless ... this project is going to be published in Patchwork and Stitching early in 2008.

FABulous Me

Got to admit these are pretty FABulous self portraits.  Will need to do a make up day so that we can have everyone's self portrait here!

The plan here was that we would each design an A4 sized self-portrait and vliesofix it all in one day.  Afterwards people were to quilt and embellish it as desired.  Because of other

commitments only three of us turned up for the day and we managed our tasks sufficiently well enough that the resultant quilts were published in Down Under Quilts in 2007.