Last weekend we had a really fun special afternoon tea.
A friend of Michelle's (Robyn) was kind and energetic enough to coordinate the remaking of Michelles lovely Christmas quilt that got stolen and we met for a hand over...
Now the quilt has been needleturn appliqued and stitched, then hand quilted by people all over the world and country. Blocks were sewn overseas and sent back and the quilt travelled many miles so as many people as possible who wanted to could participate. All done sneaky so Michelle didn't know anything about it ....
Here is the group of us before Michelle came in... it was quite a 'bloggers' meet though of course there were plenty of non bloggers too.... perhaps you recognise some of us?
Robyn, who coordinated it all is the one holding the beautiful box with the quilt in it...
... she was a little bit emotional about it!!!
... not the original quilt with all her own hard work but I think it is ultra special for different reasons...
I didn't take too many pictures.... and I'm pretty sure you have seen a lot of different ones around blogland....
... this little group of us are quite international, interstate....
What fun sewing on a collaborative project such as this...
I pulled out a UFO this week to work on..... a table runner that I stitched a few years ago. I don't even remember the name of the pattern and it has been sent to me by another blogger. Once I had stitched it and cut the borders I passed the pattern on....
I got as far as sewing the borders on ready for quilting. (the original pattern had patched blocks for the borders)
... I have kitted it up in a bag with some wadding and backing and fabric for the binding ..... I will keep it for next year but at least some progress has been made!
The runner pattern also had little stitcheries to be made into door hangers. I didn't do as many log cabin rows and have instead made them into tree ornaments....
... used up a few Christmas scraps ...
... so that's a UFO with progress made .... and 4 little UFO's finished!!!
Righto, Gotto Go - more UFO's and more ornaments to sew....
