CQs Christmas

CQs have finished this year with breakups for the Night Owls on Tuesday night and the Friday Group last week.  We did mug rugs for our Christmas swap.  On Friday we had a competition for the best decorated table (my table won for the second year in a row!) - all at my table dressed up as elves and yours truly as Santa (or should I say Mrs Claus) and the table was decorated with toys, toys and more toys.  It was great fun and we sang our version of a White Christmas (Quiet Christmas).  We also had a competition for a decoration made out of recycles items.  I had made a decoration from pieces of an old quilting magazine with the folded pieces mounted on an old CD.  Elileen who won the comp had made the same decoration using pages from a telephone book - it was huge - as they say, size does matter!!!

CHRISTMAS

Something new for 2013 - a table centre ....

CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWAP

These are pics of the two stockings I sent and the two I received from my swap partner in New Mexico.

CACA November Fair

I have been busy  making this for the Fair this weekend.  These are a few things I have made .....

Table Runner

I purchased this Judy Niemeyer pattern at the Show and Tell morning at Peachester.  It is a foundation paper pieced table runner and I am pleased to have finished it.  I quilted it - free motion - I think I am improving with this; however I know it would not win any prizes - I can live with that!  It is 17" x 51" and the colours are sharper than the pic shows.
I have also put a pic of another mug rug.  CQs swap at Christmas breakup is a mug rug - any design, not necessarily Christmas theme.  I am making a few more as samples for them.

Finished - PHD

A couple of weeks ago at our Night Owls Group, I mentioned I had never finished my first piece of patchwork, explaining that the binding was not long enough and I discarded it into a box.  One of the group suggest I get it out, unpick the binding and redo it.  Well, I did.  My placement started in about 1981, is now finished, complete with its very own 'age spot'!  I showed it at S&T last night and all were impressed, particularly with the small hand quilting stitches.

Free Motion Quilting

In my quest to improve my FM quilting, I purchased Helen Godden's DVD and worked through her exercises.  I completed the dragonfly project.  Still a long way to go!!!!