Sew Wot Tuesday

It was time for another Sew Wot Tuesday this week, and Jude was the hostess this time.  Carol had brought along an assortment of paper back novels which we looked through, to see if any took our fancy, and two jumped in my bag to come home.  There were several interesting items for show and tell, always a highlight of the morning.  First up was Heather, with her braid donation quilt.  This is a nice pattern, one I haven't done before.

Heather’s braid quilt

Sandra had been putting a lot of work into community (donation) quilts.  The quilt club members stitch a block or two, and Sandra takes on the job of assembling them.  There were enough of these interesting  batik blocks to make two quilt tops, Sandra had showed us the first one last Sew Wot morning.  We were all intrigued how these blocks were made, quite easy once you know how, and so very effective.

Second batik quilt top

Not so many blocks were received from quilt club members for this one, so Sandra came up with quite a creative idea of how to put these blocks together.  When this one is quilted, it will be a stunning donation quilt indeed.

Black and grey donation quilt

Carol had a donation quilt to show us as well, a pretty little pinwheel baby quilt.  I rather like pinwheel, they always look so nice. 

Carol’s baby pinwheel quilt

As for me, there was nothing at all to show.  I have a couple of projects which are almost at the finishing line, but not quite there yet, perhaps next time.  As well as chatting, we were all quite productive though.  Now I’ve finished the back of my navy cardigan, I have started on the fronts, just like sleeves,  I like to knit the two fronts together.  Sandra was knitting away on her cozy cream basket-weave cot blanket, Jude worked on socks, and Carol was knitting teddy bear ears!  Mary was quietly doing crochet, and made several small squares for a blanket, she just sat there and churned out one after another.  Heather was unpicking, never a nice job, but hopefully made easier while sitting and chatting with friends.

In came the tea trolley for morning tea.  Of my, lots of goodies here, we are certainly well catered for, aren't we.  And on the bottom of the trolley were sweet treats, a bowl of soft marshmallows, plus another of locally manufactured licorice all-sorts, we all had a taste of them too.

Morning tea time

Jude didn't have any show and tell, but she did have some works in progress she shared with us after morning tea.  “Lots of Little Houses”  was a class started at Foxs Cottage a wee while ago, made up of teeny tiny log cabin blocks.

Lots of Little Houses

And Jude had another gorgeous start, called Sunshine, a BOM quilt.  We all loved this one, a combination of piecing and applique.

Sunshine BOM, so pretty

But wait, there’s more.  Jude had made a pinwheel variation donation quilt top to use up her small scraps, but honestly, does that ever work or do you end up with even more scraps?  This is a very pretty design indeed.

Jude's donation top

It was another lovely Sew Wot morning.  Many thanks to Carol for the books, and to  Heather for sharing her freshly picked green beans, much appreciated.