I attended my quilt club''s monthly stitching day on Saturday, its always a nice relaxing kind of day. Morning tea is provided and we take a packed lunch along. One or two of the members take their sewing machines, but I don't bother, it's much too difficult for me to unhook my machine from the cabinet, and it is so heavy to carry into the hall. So it's always a hand stitching project for me.
We hadn't been in the hall long, and had barely got settled when we heard an extremely noisy "whup, whup, whup" overhead. It was a large grey helicopter and we watched as it hovered then landed right on the large grassy area outside the hall. What on earth was happening? It seemed there was a Search and Rescue taking place, several people with high vis jackets and back packs ran across to the helicopter and climbed aboard. It took a while for them to be buckled up, and eventually the helicopter door closed, and it took off into the sky. That was an exciting start to the morning.
Excitement out the hall window
We finally settled down and got on with our sewing projects. The iron was plugged in for those who wanted to use it, and there was the hum of a sewing machine. A couple of the ladies took advantage of the rotary blade sharpener which the club has purchased, so they had newly sharpened blades to work with.
Busy working
Elaine was slicing away, cutting strips for an African quilt, she is making this in memory of her recent African Safari holiday. And Jude was busy cutting out pockets for the Advent Calendar she was making.
The start of Jude's Advent Calendar
What was I doing? Doing more slow stitching on New Zealand Land and Sea panel. I hadn't worked on this project for a while, but that's OK, it was always going to be a long term project. I spent some time happily stitching around a large whale. Oh look, there's a giant squid swimming close by.
Hello, whale
The helicopter arrived back, and the Search and Rescue team disembarked. As there was no ambulance waiting for them, and no one offloaded on a stretcher, we presumed it had been a training exercise. We stopped for lunch then back to our various projects. Susan had a finish, this lovely blue and green donation quilt. Simple but very effective, an ideal combination for donation quilts, I always think.
Susan's quilt
We finished our stitching day at about 2.00pm, and all helped tidy and pack up the equipment, before heading off on our way. I do enjoy these stitching days, working away in a comfy room, with pleasant company. And it is always so interesting to see what the other ladies are working on too.
13 comments:
Sewing with a group of friends is a wonderful way to spend the day. I love how you are quilting your panel quilt. So many interesting critters! The helicopter certainly added some excitement to the day. Gail at the cozy quilter
That certainly livened your day up! Nice projects your group are working on. I really like the blue and lime colours together in Susan's quilt.
These occasions are why most of us quiltmakers are who we are - for the conviviality being together, and working on similar sorts of things. It is, of course, always nice to see what others are making - perhaps find some inspiration for one's own creations - and catch up on everyone's latest doin's. Your hand-stitched piece is coming along nicely, but I sure understand about it being a no-rush project. We all have at least one of those in our UFO arsenal, right?
That does sound like a lovely day, with a little excitement thrown in! Your space for getting together looks really nice, too. I loved the peek at your land and sea panel - your stitching is beautiful, Jenny!
the helicopters can quite loud aren't they! interesting to watch. One day back when Mike was in the Little Rock hospital after his surgery Melanie and I were taking a walk outside to stretch and wake up a little bit while he was sleeping and we going around a parking lot where a sidewalk was all of a sudden the noise alerted us of one near by and it got so windy - we hadn't realized we were very close to where the emergency helicopter med flight came in at and stayed to watch it. They unloaded a patient on a stretcher and 3 personal got off with the patient pushing the patient to the hospital ambulance entrance - it was interesting.
Thanks for sharing the various stitching projects. We live a few miles from a local airport so there often are helicopters overhead. We do worry when they start circling though. It usually means there is an accident on the nearby parkway or some kind of fugitive.
Sounds like an exciting and eventful day with the sewing club. I am glad to hear that all was well with the Search and Rescue. It is so much fun to see the projects in the works. The sea quilt looks fabulous. Have a lovely day, Jenny. Hugs.
It seems you had a pleasant stitching day on a very nice place, love the whale. panel.
Happy Stitching Jenny.
Great to see all the lovey works in progress.
I really enjoyed that! The helicopter was a bit scary, but there you go.
That sounds like an exciting day with the helicopter coming! I love your sea quilt sewing :)
You are so very lucky to have people to stitch with. Love the sea quilt, it is coming along nicely.
God bless.
Lots of excitement for everyone.
Looks like you get good numbers at your sewing group.
Lovely idea to have a blade sharpener for everyone to use. Very smart.
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