Friday Night - Work tomorrow

 Well it's that time of the month again, I have spent the evening getting ready to teach Lesson 3 of the 6 month Beginner's course tomorrow, 1/2 way through the course already, I don't know where the time goes, but I do enjoy teaching. I just love the look of delight on students faces when the penny drops and they GET IT! We'll be working on 1/4 square triangles, making  Ohio star or Judy's Star blocks in the morning then after lunch we will concentrate on joining the blocks together, plus hand and machine quilting so plenty for them to get their heads round. These are the two sampler quilts that my classes are based around.
They are both made using Quilt As You Go methods, which is the method I prefer to use for my Beginners Courses.

Sampler Quilt 1

Reds, Yellows & Greens

Reds Yellows & Greens has narrower sashing strips because it was made for a Group Challenge at Westbury Park Quilters. The Quilts had to be only 1metre in size so I reduced the sashing to 1" to make it the right size. We were each given a paper bag containing three pencil crayons and were challenged to make a quilt using only those three colours (or shades of them)  My crayons were Red, Yellow & Green hence the title of the quilt, it all worked out very well in the end as those were the colours I was using for my teaching samples, which meant I did not need to buy any fabric for the challenge :-(
I have to get my machine all packed for taking along to demonstrate, make sure I have everything I need for the lessons, and  find something for my lunch its snowing here, so a nice bowl of soup sounds favorite. I hope the roads are OK in the morning.
Must dash!
Bye for now

Fun at the Party!



The scarves

Well! what a great time we all had at Clock Tower Quilters Christmas

party on Saturday, I was late arriving due to an appointment with my Mum,

when I got there everyone was in high spirits, we had invited a lady who

sells scarves, bags and Jewellery which is hand made by villagers in

Kathmandu, Nepal, (where she lives with her Nepalese Husband)

Wendy who is English sells these items while she is here visiting

family and the proceeds go back to the village where it is used to support

the village school  and a hospital for Children with Childhood Cancer/

Leukaemia. Everything looked wonderful and it was difficult to choose
what to buy in the end I decided on two scarves, two pairs of
earrings, and an embroidered bag. The scarves are so soft and
have the feel of Pashmina silk, I plan to use some items as

presents but the bag, is for me! I just love all the embroidery. I felt
this was a good way to help the cause of supporting the hospital and
giving the villagers a chance to earn some money for their families.





Bag Back

Bag Front



Embroidery Detail







The earrings



 When we stopped for lunch, the table was 'groaning with all the delicious food. Everyone brought many homemade delights for us to sample and we all ate far too much! After we had eaten it was time to exchange our gifts (see mine below) I'm pleased to report that the Sofa caddy I made was received with great delight by Mollie, who was amazed that I had her colour scheme exactly right. Of course having eaten all that food  not much sewing got done after lunch.

Secret Santa

And this little chappie is my gift, isn't he just the cutest, He was made

for me by Kerry who does everything by hand and I have pictured

him in his place of honour on my mantle-shelf he has a little sack of

'goodies' including a tree, a teddy bear, a gingerbread man, a hobby

horse and two teeny tiny gifts all wrapped with love, I can't wait to

put him out at Christmas and introduce him to the Santa I made last

year which will also sit on my fireplace.

Well I had better go I hope to finish Eli's Elephant today while DH is

off helping a friend with a bit of work in their garden, I just wanted to

show you all my 'goodies' from Saturday.
Byeee!