Last Quilt Club Night of the Year

There was a great attendance at our December Club Night, with some faces which I hadn’t seen for a while putting in an appearance.  Our guest speaker for the evening was Diane Southey, owner of Village Books and Crafts in Palmerston North.  Her talk was all about “Modern Quilts”, the new quilting movement sweeping the world.  Modern quilting is defined as the use of bold colours, high contrast, improv piecing, and lots of negative space to show off our creative quilting.  Diane then showed us slides from Quilt Com of some of the prize winning quilts.  And to show us that perhaps we are already making our own versions of modern quilts and not realising it, Diane had several of her own quilts to share with us. Her talk finished with “Do what you love, and enjoy your quilting”.  Great sentiments indeed.

Quilts by Diane Southey

Understandably perhaps, there wasn’t a great deal of Show and Tell.  No doubt all the Christmas goodies made have been wrapped up, ready to gift.  I loved this version of a Christmas Tree, stitched by Sheryl, it certainly looks very “modern” to me. 

Cheryl’s Christmas Tree

And another Sheryl had made the Plus quilt for her daughter, goodness me, it’s huge.  Perhaps they are not pluses, but crosses, maybe?   Made to fit a Californian King bed, we were told.

Cheryl’s quilt for her daughter

And of course, there was a Christmas theme to the evening.  Members brought along many  donations for the Food Bank and the basket was overflowing.  I’m sure there were many more goodies deposited here as the happy quilters entered the hall.

For the Food Bank

There was entertainment galore.  Pass the Parcels did the rounds with two lucky members having their hands on the parcels with the final wrapping to come.  Then we had a game of Bingo, and the raffles were drawn.  The girls from Foxes Cottage gave us all a Button Challenge and little brown paper bags were handed out to us all.  That looks interesting.

Button Challenge

Supper was rather festive and extra special too.  Bowls of strawberries and cream were eagerly consumed, hot savouries were passed around, followed by my favourite, Christmas Cake.  So delicious.  As the meeting drew to a close we were reminded to collect a parcel from the Fat Quarter swap on our way out.  Mine was beautifully wrapped, and contained an interesting yellow fabric, one I hadn’t seen before.

Such pretty packaging

Such a busy night, with all sorts of things arranged for our final meeting of the year.  Many thanks to all the Committee and helpers for making it so special.