SCQ Brisbane

The SCQuilters in Brisbane have been busy this month - Hexagons, Applique, Hand-Quilting, Healing Hearts, UFOs, Suffolk Puffs, Booties and WIPs.



This beautiful Healing Hearts quilt with matching cushion has been made by the group for one of their friends.  Lovely work.

The Qld group meets on the 3rd Saturday each month upstairs at The Quilters Store, Salisbury, with the next get-together on Saturday 19 July.

http://qldscquiltersgtg.blogspot.sg

More retreat 2014

Here's a photo from the 2014 Retreat venue, showing some familiar faces in the foyer...

And an eye witness account from Joy:

 

The venue was great - all contained in the one building and within cooee distance of each other. The venue was excellent - a very big sit and sew room - the lighting was not the best, but trust SCQuilters, this did not deter them - all those little portable lights came out. 

The entertainment on Sat night was fabulous. The Bee Bop Dance Troupe - from a local dance school did a great couple of routines. Their ages ranged from about 5 to 16 and the little ones did a routine by themselves - just beautiful.

Excellent speakers. I especially loved the talk by Trudy Cowley & Dianne Snowdon who spoke about their book Patchwork Prisoners, a story of their extensive research into the women prisoners on board the Rajah who made the famous quilt. 

 

Some sewing or handwork was done......a lot of walking around town and environs by others, and of course lots of chatting and laughter.  There were quite a few shopping bags and parcels - this not including the shop hop purchases!

It was a fantastic retreat and I would like to thank all the committee members (there were not many of them) for all the work they did in making it such a great retreat.  

SCQ Brisbane

A reminder that the monthly GTG for the Brisbane SCQuilters is on again this Saturday 14^th June 2014 - 10:00 am – 3:00 pm ,  in the upstairs room of The Quilters Store

4/286 Evans Rd, Salisbury QLD 4107
(07) 3875 1700

Please bring show & tell, something to work on while we chat and laugh, morning tea and lunch. Tea and Coffee is provided and a $1 per hour donation will go towards the charity work that The Quilters Store organises.

If last month is an indication, this month will be another fun day.

SCQ Illawarra Group

Our girls south of Sydney have been busy too. After a wonderful Retreat recently, they went on with their knitting and hand sewing, including some incredibly tiny hexagons from Cinzia. You can see their latest adventures on their blog, SCQIllawarras.

Sydney SCQuilters

Photo by Pennie Griffiths, used with permission

What are those Sydney SCQuilters like? Very chatty, very generous, very clever, very inspirational and very noisy, according to Pennie on their blog, and that's an eyewitness account!

At their meeting this month, there was hand piecing, hand quilting, crochet, knitting, bobbin lace, applique, sashiko and hand embroidery going on, so you could add "very diverse" to the description.

You can see photos of their very happy meeting on their blog including some fabulous show and tell.

They meet 1st Saturday of the month
Blue Gum Hotel, Waitara
10am till about 3:30pm

Quilt Study Group of Australia Seminar

The 20th Anniversary Seminar for the Quilt Study Group of Australia.



20 years ago the Quilt Study Group of Australia was formed. In that time there have been seven QSGA seminars run in Australia.

To celebrate this anniversary, the next Quilt Study Group of Australia seminar will be held from9.30am to 5pm on Sunday the 6th and Monday the 7th of July 2014 at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.

Seven outstanding quiltmakers and practitioners will speak on Sunday on a wide-variety of topics including keynote speaker Di Ford, who will be talking about 19th Century Inspirations in Quiltmaking.


Margaret Rolfe, founder of the Quilt Study Group of Australia is the guest speaker at the Seminar dinner on Sunday night.

On Monday, quilts will be uncovered as four well-known quiltmakers reveal their collections.

Registration forms are available for download at

australianquiltstudygroups.blogspot.com.au

Scquilters Note: Michelle Watters is speaking about SCQuilters at this seminar - its history and role in Australian quiltmaking.