New Patchwork Class

Great News:
You are invited to a new Patchwork Class at Sussex Neighbourhood House. This is class is for anyone who wants some support, guidance or encouragements with their patchwork and quilting. Brand new beginners will learn the basics, while more experienced patchworkers will be helped to keep going in their craft. Enrolments are essential, so please contact Joanne on 9354 2210 if you'd like to sign up.

Quilters' Circle - 4th May, 2009

The Quilters' Circle meets at Sussex Neighbourhood House every 1st, 3rd and 5th Monday from 1:00 to 3:30 PM. We work on our own projects, while enjoying conversation and company. The group is not a class, but help and advice is always available. Anyone is welcome to come and join us. Here's what we did today.





















Today Joy showed us some tips for needle-turn appliqué, demonstrating on this handsome butterfly. The spots on the blue strip will be added to his wings later. There are several butterflies on this piece. Joy also brought along some blocks from a blue Baltimore Album quilt she is making. Here's a sample:



Isn't that beautiful?



Marie was quilting her lovely 1930s hexagon quilt:






The quilting is a meandering line through the hexagons; you can see it in the green block. On the right-hand side you can see a little of the border, which has appliquéd stems, leaves, and hexagon flowers. It is a very cheerful quilt.





Marilyn was cutting sashing strips for her lap quilt. The 9 blocks are all done:






Aren't they lovely colours?













Vireya worked on an appliqué flower for a mystery block-of-the-month quilt, "Red Delicious" designed by Esther Alieu. She is not making it all in red, as you can see. The pattern for the petals is cut from the wrapper of a ream of photocopy paper. The plastic coating on the back can be ironed onto the fabric, then easily removed. Vireya is an appliquér with L-plates.







Between the sewing, we looked at magazines, admired lovely Japanese fabric, gave border advice to Leigh, and met the drummer who will be entertaining people next Monday for Neighbourhood House Week. A great afternoon all round. Please feel welcome to come along and join us next time.



Please forgive the strange spacing here - this is the first blog post I've ever done, and I had trouble getting the photos to behave!

Making it Personal

I posted from the Neighbourhood House office yesterday. It was a bit of an occasion--in a busy, friendly kind of way. Let's just say there were half a dozen staff and volunteers working at half a dozen different tasks in a space the size of a lounge room. Despite that, I had several people willing to check over and cheer the "first post" of the Quilters at Sussex Blog.

Of course there were memories shared about the "Carers". I learned that the wall hangings include photos of carers' families from our community. I'll be looking for more information about that soon. Meanwhile, I'll invite you to have another look at the first photo in yesterday's post. You can see the Sussex Quilt hanging on the wall further up the hallway. That was made as a Neighbourhood House Week project a few years ago and includes a block contributed by each group and class from Sussex. More details later.