It's that time again, and the Sew Wot ladies met at our home this time. It was nice to welcome Mary again, who hadn't been able to join us for a few weeks.
Welcome, all
It was a fine but cool morning, with a nippy wind blowing. The heat pump soon got things warmed up inside. Jude received a couple of late birthday gifts, a pretty kit for a purse, and a big bucket of Liquorice Allsorts, purchased from our local RJ's Factory shop.
Although Mary had been unable to join us for a while, she certainly hadn't been idle. Her knitting fingers have been busy and she showed us what she had been working on. Four pairs of socks, and three pairs of thick cozy slippers.
Mary has been very busy
Mary had also brough along her brown and cream quilt top. The main body of the top had been stitched, and Mary added machine applique motifs to the borders when she felt well enough for a stint at the sewing machine.
Mary's quilt top
We can always count on Carol to have some knitted donation toys to show us. These three had the cutest sleepy face expressions, and will be going to the Neo Natal ward for babies.
Carol's knitted toys
And I showed my recently completed pirate quilt top, now layered up and pinned and ready for quilting.
Here come the pirates
Helen had brought along her hexagon quilt to show Jude, who had expressed an interest in doing something similar. Not for me, all those tiny pieces have to be hand stitched together. This technique holds no fear for some, as both Mary and Helen have made a couple of these quilts already, and Helen is working on another now.
Helen's pretty hexagon quilt
We all had our knitting out, and sat and chatted away. Helen and Jude told us about their recent trip up to the Quilt Symposium in Cambridge. Gemma had a fine time checking out the ladies, sniffing their bags, and then decided to settle down next to Heather.
Carol, Heather and Gemma looking on
Of course we had morning tea
After a couple of date changes, we finally settled on a date for our Christmas break-up lunch which suited everyone. Our diaries are starting to fill up with pre Christmas outings. It was a lovely morning, so nice to host my Sew Wot friends again.
10 comments:
I made a quilt like Helen's some years ago - it is called Lucy Boston's Patchwork of Crosses - I no you don't enjoy the hand work but it was fun to do, hers looks lovely
Lovely to have been the hostess for this Months Sew Wot GTG.
Beautifully knitted projects and lovely quilt . My favourite is the Lucy Boston one.
As usual a delicious spread. Did you save some for Robin?
Quite a productive bunch of ladies! I’m not a fan of hand piecing, but I do admire the projects that others create.
I love all the projects you ladies have been working on and it would be lovely to sit knitting and chatting with your friends.
And what was Gemma gazing at from her perch by the needles and wool I wonder...............lovely pic, thanks for sharing your friendly meetings, they're so good to see. The Lucy Boston quilt is lovely. Elaine
A sewing and knitting meeting like this is wonderful... unfortunately I don't have any around me.
It's great that you're waiting with your birthday present... I would have done the same (it's not my turn until February) - so I'm looking forward to Santa Claus and Christmas :-)))
Kind regards to you.
You are a very productive lot. Great projects.
Lovely to see what you have all been up to. I love Helen's version of Lucy Boston's Patchwork of the crosses, it is beautiful. I made a blue version a couple of years ago.
sounds like a lovely day - Love the Lucy Boston quilt..I enjoy hand sewing but dont think I will make one of them.
A delightful morning as always. I won’t be making the Lucy Boston Quilt either, just admiring from afar.
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