Christmas time again!

It hardly seems possible but we're almost at Christmas again!

Our groups are having their end of year parties and what a lovely time they've been having!

The Sydney SCQuilters had their last 2015 meeting on Dec 5 and as usual, there were all kinds of high jinks. Pennie has reported in full on their blog, of course! Annie sent around a tin to collect Gold Coins for the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Foundation and she reports that $100.00 was collected which will buy:-
2 x Dress Nightgown and Bedding - $60.00
20 x Pairs of Rubber Slippers for patients with no shoes - $40.00   
Well done, Sydney SCQuilters!

They had a lot of fun with Pennie's infamous Christmas Quiz and she's kindly listed the questions and answers on the blog, for our information.

And of course, there was show and tell. This beautiful Christmas quilt was made by Heather. Isn't it gorgeous?

Sydney SCQuilters - June Gathering

I'm sitting here sweltering in humidity while typing this.  I know where I would rather be...

...the Sydney SCQuilters gathering at the Blue Gum Hotel for their June get-together. It must be chilly weather -  look how warm and cozy they all are!  The best kind of day for sitting inside to chat, quilt, knit, eat and have fun!

Head to their website and you can see many more photos of them and the work they are doing.

Sydney South Get Together

Sydney South Get Together 10am Saturday 23rd May.

Amelia Kates
86-188 Princes Highway,
Beverley Park New South Wales.

A few Scquilters have planned to meet at Amelia Kates for Devonshire tea, stitching and a yarn. Would anyone else like to join us? This patchwork, gift and tea shop is situated in a beautiful historic sandstone building at 186-188 Princes Highway, Beverley Park New South Wales. Devonshire tea is $10.50 - I need to give them an idea of numbers so please email me on quiltfanatic73@yahoo.com.au
Some parking is available on site or park in the side street – Lacey Street. Walking up Lacey St to the Princes Hwy turn right along the Princes Hwy and Amelia Kates is a few buildings along on that side of the road. I am really looking forward to putting faces to names.

Strip Piecing Presentation by Trudy Brodie

Well known quilt maker Trudy Brodie will give a presentation about Strip Piecing, which she frequently uses in her quilt making. Similar forms of piecing, such as Lattice and Log Cabin, will also be featured.

Please bring along your own strip pieced quilts, such as log cabins, jelly roll quilts, string pieced quilts etc., to share.

Saturday 2nd May, 2pm - 4.30pm
In the Meeting Room, The Glover Cottages, 124 Kent Street, Millers Point, Sydney

Entry - $5 for members of the Quilters' Guild of NSW, $10 for other guests.
Afternoon tea will be provided.

Sydney SCQuilters

Lisa's hand stitching

The Sydney SCQuilters had another wonderful meeting last Saturday. There was great food, as usual, lots of handwork including knitting, applique, hand piecing, crochet, embroidery and hand quilting. They really are a talented bunch!


Cath's show and tell

For more details of their meeting, check out their blog.

The Springwood Community Quilt Show is looking forward to celebrating its tenth year in 2015.
 
The show aims to display the quilts of the Blue Mountains and to raise money for their designated charity, the Blue Mountains Rural Fire Service.


When?
24-26 April 2015.

Where?
Springwood High School
Grose Rd
Faulconbridge NSW 2776

 
The guest quilter for 2015 will be Rhonda Pearce.

Contact
Ph 33.6853 150.55 or website or email

 

Quilt Show - Eastwood Quilters

Don't miss the 2015 quilt show from the Eastwood Patchwork Quilters Inc!

When?
Friday May 1st until Sunday May 3rd 2015
10am - 4.30pm

Where?
Brush Farm House and Eastwood Corrective Services Academy, Eastwood, NSW.
(Click here for a map)

This is always an interesting show from a bunch of talented ladies and there are lots of goodies for sale in the trading area. In addition, there will be four shops, Cottage Quiltworks, Kim Bradley Creations, Quiltsmith and Wabi-sabi Designs.

The cafe serves yummy morning and afternoon tea and lunch.

The proceeds of the charity raffle quilts will benefit Cord Blood Research (Inner Wheel Australia) and Christian Community Aid. Tickets are now on sale from any EPQ member and representatives of the charities.

For more information, see the Eastwood Quilters website.

Sydney Scquilter's Gathering Report

Remember this meeting is on the first Saturday of the month.
See reports at http://sydneyscquilters.blogspot.com.au/
Churn Dash Challenge this month.

Sydney SCQuilters group

The final meeting for the SCQuilters Sydney group is their Christmas Party at the Blue Gum, Waitara on Saturday1st December.
All SCQuilters are welcome - it doesn't matter if you haven't been to The Blue Gum before, doesn't matter if  you aren't even from Sydney...

Time...
From 10am till we are sewed, eaten and chatted out!
Usually around 3pm to  4pm.
Where...
The Blue Gum
55 Pacific Highway, Waitarahttp://www.bluegumhotel.com.au/index.php

Lunch...
Available at the Bistro with Coffee and Drinks available at the Bar.

R.S.V.P.... A.S.A.P. Please...
Email me privately, so we have an idea of numbers for seating.
Bring along (not compulsory):

A Gift to Recycle and Swap...
One that you already have and wish to recycle. (It¹s become a tradition of
the Sydney SCQuilters to swap unwanted gifts, the weirder the better but
something that is in good condition that you have received, never used and
is too good to throw out! Some very weird and wonderful gifts have surfaced
over the years, but some treasures have also surfaced as well... And
continue to surface.)
Sewing and Show and Tell...
Bring lots to show, this is the last Show & Tell for 2012, after all ,so there will be lots of photos taken to put on the blog http://sydneyscquilters.blogspot.com/.

July at the Blue Gum

Quilting by Marianne

Sydney SCQuilters had a small group this month but there was the usual mix of chat, great food and quilts.

As usual, there was a great range of handwork on show - as well as hand quilting, members were embroidering, appliqueing, hand piecing, making hexagons, knitting and crochet. Not to mention some fabulous show and tell. 

For details see the Sydney SCQuilters blog.

 

Sydney SCQuilters

Photo by Pennie Griffiths, used with permission

What are those Sydney SCQuilters like? Very chatty, very generous, very clever, very inspirational and very noisy, according to Pennie on their blog, and that's an eyewitness account!

At their meeting this month, there was hand piecing, hand quilting, crochet, knitting, bobbin lace, applique, sashiko and hand embroidery going on, so you could add "very diverse" to the description.

You can see photos of their very happy meeting on their blog including some fabulous show and tell.

They meet 1st Saturday of the month
Blue Gum Hotel, Waitara
10am till about 3:30pm

Quilt Study Group of Australia Seminar

The 20th Anniversary Seminar for the Quilt Study Group of Australia.



20 years ago the Quilt Study Group of Australia was formed. In that time there have been seven QSGA seminars run in Australia.

To celebrate this anniversary, the next Quilt Study Group of Australia seminar will be held from9.30am to 5pm on Sunday the 6th and Monday the 7th of July 2014 at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.

Seven outstanding quiltmakers and practitioners will speak on Sunday on a wide-variety of topics including keynote speaker Di Ford, who will be talking about 19th Century Inspirations in Quiltmaking.


Margaret Rolfe, founder of the Quilt Study Group of Australia is the guest speaker at the Seminar dinner on Sunday night.

On Monday, quilts will be uncovered as four well-known quiltmakers reveal their collections.

Registration forms are available for download at

australianquiltstudygroups.blogspot.com.au

Scquilters Note: Michelle Watters is speaking about SCQuilters at this seminar - its history and role in Australian quiltmaking.

Sydney SCQuilters

It was cold and grey this month but lots of SCQuilters turned up to the Blue Gum for a sit and sew and chat and munch. As always, there were people sewing hexagons, but there was also some applique, stitchery, some crochet and even a few bindings being sewn on.

Blocks by Jackie

For more words and images, see the Sydney SCQuilters blog.

Sydney SCQuilters meets on the first Saturday of the month at the Blue Gum in Waitara in the northern suburbs of Sydney.

Sydney SCQuilters meeting

The Sydney SCQuilters also had a great meeting this month. Good food, good company and lots of  interestingwork being done. Check them out on the Sydney SCQuilters blog.

Sydney SCQuilters

A couple of dozen SCQuilters, a couple of Friends and a couple of little people... made for a lovely fun day at the Blue Gum Pub today.

Photos up on the Sydney SCQuilters Blog now!

Sydney SCQuilters

The Sydney SCQuilters met last weekend and a very busy day it was! Some members brought along stage 1 of their Mystery Challenge quilts to share. Stage 1 was applique, stage two is diamonds.

Check out their activities on their blog.

Gatherings and Groups Today Pt 3

A long-running SCQuilters group in Sydney is the Sydney Scquilters group or SYDSCQ for short. This group began meeting in an airy room at the back of the Pennant Hills Hotel back, in the early noughties. The pub was chosen for its proximity to Craft Depot, a large quilt shop which shares a carpark with the pub. However, in 2007, the pub remodelled, making the room into an outdoor smoking area, and the group moved to the Blue Gum Hotel in Waitara. They aren't really heavy drinkers! The pubs offer clean, airy premises, with food, at a very reasonable price.

The group has had a blog http://sydneyscquilters.blogspot.com/ since 2006, regularly showing photos of their quilts, sometimes their food and with occasional guessing games organised by clever Pennie, the coordinator.

They even got reported in the local Northside Magazine! http://sydneyscquilters.blogspot.com/2011/06/here-we-are-in-northside-magazine.html after some reporters came to visit the group.

The group meets 1st Saturday of the month 10am till about 3:30pm and issues an open invitation to SCQuilters everywhere to come and visit them.