My christmas class project is all finished - thank you Raewyn for your great teaching and encouragement.

I tried stitching in the car on the way to Auckland Leeanne and discovered I could cope for short periods - thanks for the tip, more stitching time and a finished project. I am happy.

Happy stitching fellow Sample Sisters,  take care sister 'B'

Round Robin Finish

Feels good to have finished!
2010 Row by Row Round Robin with ten lovley ladies contributing to the qult in their own special way.

Thankyou ladies I love it.

Travel Bags

I feel as if this is a rare finish!!  Little drawstring bags for our Canadian friends coming next week, full of goodies for them to enjoy as they travel around our beautiful country.  So fun to make.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! 

 

 

Quilt completed in time for the birthday, hurray

 

   Great way to use up the 'left overs' - thanks Kerryn

This is nothing to do with quilts but it is one of my climbing roses by the clothes line.It sure brightens up the morning as I hang out the washing

 

Thank you to all my Sample Sisters for your help, advise and encouragement

I couldn't have put together this quilt without all your support

 

Have a great Day Sample Sister 'B'

I did it & it's still 2012!!!!!

A close up of one of the blocks so you can see the beads!

 I was thinking of bringing it on Monday for show & tell, what do my sisters think??

over & out from Sample Sister 'L'

Xmas

Just pinned nearly a finish.

Thanks Raewyn, I love it!!
Hopefully a finish tonight.....

no quilting.................

I just HAD to clean & sort my studio before I started the next quilt, the dust bunnies have taken over!!
Anyhow I found this in my sorting.............

How cool is that? I will bring along to our next get together.
I guess there will be no surprises as to what I will be working on..............Beads!! More beads!!

Sample Sister "L"

The 70th birthday quilt top is complete!! I am so happy to finally have all the blocks together. Thank you Kerryn for convincing me I should go with the flying geese sashing. Even though there was some cursing as I pieced the 200 flying geese required, plus the 25 corner stones, the outcome is much nicer than if I had just done plain corner stones.

Now it is our master quilters turn to add her magic touch. I am really looking forward to seeing what Leeanne comes up with. I know she will make the quilt 'sing'

Take care, Barb

Looking for a photo I found this one of a display at the shop, a few years back.

Have a happy sewing week Sample Sisters!

Hugs from Sample Sister 'L'

Finally.......

Hi gals,  finally logged on!  Just saying helloo to all!

The find of today

I found a gollie pattern to add to our selection in a small town on our travels  yestersay. There were only about 6 shops in the town and one shop had knitting, sewing, embroidery and patchwork supplies. Everything was in boxes and on the floor, shelving was an unheard of concept I think. I found the pattern in the botton of a box. By the look of it the pattern may have been in the box for several years! There was also some very interesting material on display. The bolts were all wrapped in plastic and when I said I would like to make a purchase the shop owner who was well into her 80s suggested that unwrapping the plastic and measuring out the material was really in the too hard basket! Needless to say I walked out of the shop empty handed except for my $3 pattern which by the way has the material to make the appliqué gollie included!

Sorry there is no photo. I managed to work out how to take a photo with my iPad but downsizing it was beyond me. I will have to show you on my return.

Take sister B

For sister B

A great get together tonight but missed our chief executive who always keeps us focused and on track.  A decision was made, well as good as a decision as we can all make together, to start a golly quilt ... but not until next year!! - a decision that kind of made sense as A will be overseas next month and then D is going off to the South Island for a month or two.

A good selection of ideas to start with!!

Sister K (and all the other noisy sisters in the background!!)

I found her..!

I found the pattern I want to use for my ROW of gollies.....

Isn't she cute?!
A Lynn Hyland pattern from a quilt magazine.

How is everyone else getting on with inspiration for your Golly quilts?

See you all next week!

Raewyn.

A big thank you to my friends

A  big thank you to all the special friends I have met in the past 2 years through my love of sewing. Everytime I look at my new cushions made with the lovely material you gave me for my birthday I will remember fun times with special women.

The last of my small projects completed!! Now there are 4 quilt tops waiting to be put together on my return.

All packed ready to head off on our adventure over in south West Australia. It is now a matter of waiting for the spray contractor and the fertiliser spreader, both of whom are chasing each other round the orchard at present, to complete their tasks. We are very lucky that at last we have a nice fine day and the orchard floor has dried out enough for heavy vehicles.

Happy sewing, I look forward to catching up with you all on my return

sister B

Finally a photo

Think I have it sorted!
My computer is a bit old........hmmmmm
Something finished!
Cheers

Sister KJA

world's biggest toilet bag?

The toilet bag is all finished Di - are you sure you made the big size!! This is huge, Brian wants to know why I think I need one so big. I sure will need a big suitcase to fit it in. I have suggested I take a near empty case so I can bring lots of goodies back home!! 

Hope you all having a great week, cheers sample sister B

Gollies finished!!!

Just kidding!.........

Is this the same pattern as yours Kerryn?

Sample Sister " L "

I've been thinking....

As soon as I saw this picture I knew what I wanted to do for my version of the Gollies quilt idea.

Yes a row-by-row!!

AS I see things I like I can do a row of them, rather than making a whole quilt of each.

(Unfortunately there are no instructions for this, only the photo).

What do you think?!

Raewyn.

it's legal!

 Yup the boy got his Learners yesterday! You should have seen the grin on his face. Do you think I'll be grinning after a few lessons?

Ok back to quilting, just thought I'd share :-)

Sample Sister " L "

spools - almost completed!

Done and Dusted

Whoopee my sisters wall hanging is finished!! Sorry about the photography but just thought I would share it with you all. Also I am learning how to blog. Won't tell you how long it has taken to get this far!!

Anyway it is fun to learn new things and know that I can trip up amongst friends.

Thanks for all your help Raewyn.

I am looking forward to the Gollie challenge and will no doubt be kept up to date after you all meet next month

Take care,sample sister B

Hi fellow Sample Sisters.
Cant wait to start my Gollie quilt
Sister D

UFOs galore!

Well I am all signed up now to blog for the first time - thank you Raewyn :)

I am enjoying an evening of sewing with friends and am working on one of two UFOs that I brought along - did I really think I would get them both finished!

Gollies Galore

Who said I need to make another golly quilt when I already have one made!!

Sample Sister K

Hello

Made it - all signed up.

Having a great time at the monthly Sample Sisters get together. Lots of chat and not a lot of sewing so far!!

my plans.....

This is what I might work on at our get together.....did I say might? Anything can happen between now & then my friends!

Sample Sister " L"...................:-)

Yay!

Awesome up and Running!!

hello!

I finished the wee pencil case I was working on last month. I look forward to our next meeting.

Bye for now,

Sample Sister "L".............:-)

Lets get started!

Here it is, a blog for a group of friends who like to sew, patchwork and quilt. We call ourselves the Sample Sisters. Some of the sisters are new to this blog thing so I think that as well as having fun with our stitching and our chatting, we can have fun with the blogging. I invite the Sample Sisters, and you all know who you are, to have a go at writing a first post...keep it simple and we can discuss technicalities when we meet :-).
(Give me a call or flick me an email if you need help to get started !)
Happy stitching!!
Raewyn