Just after Easter, I thought that it would be a good idea to have a Xmas in July party just for something different........as there are just so many party in December........I had also organized to have the outside of the Studio painted in June and it would be nice fresh and clean........well... we have had so much rain the painter is about 2 months behind in his work and I am about the same.......the idea of digging around looking for Xmas decorations was not so appealing at the beginning of this month....so I sent out a email saying how disorganized I was and we would have a social day instead.......the ladies came along and we all had a lovely day even the sun came out for a little while
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| Joan, Barb, Ellen and myself |
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| Margaret |
all the ladies bought a small plate of food to share....we had home made Sushi, meat ball, chicken salad sandwiches, homemade cakes, slices and quiche and a little vino...it was a little feast
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| some of the yummy food for lunch |
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| Lynne and June |
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| Pat and Patsy |
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| Margret |
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| Heather and Margaret |
and the ladies bought along some show and tell.......
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| Patsy showing her cushion top to Barb |
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| June, Lynne and myself showing off our applique |
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| Lynne's thangle star quilt top |
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| this a the backing for Lynne's star quilt |
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| Barb's wall hanging of her beautiful Geisha Girl there are so many different techniques in this piece |
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| Patsy showing her Bargello table runner |
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| Margaret showing her convergence quilt with the under water scene and mermaids |
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| Sandra with her ( wip) wall hanging from the Helen Godden workshop....this piece is called Princess Sea-anna |
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| Joan showing her beautiful work |
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| Ellen bought along her felting to show us.... |
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| Margret and Joan looking at another piece of Joan's work..... |
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| Ladies looking Sandra's piece with the African animals on it |
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| Kaylene checking out her photos |
Jens set up a small table for the ladies to have a go at doing a jigsaw that I bought last year when we were on holidays in the USA......a couple of the ladies were hooked...it was amazing how much they did........there are 1000 pieces and finished it is 16" x 11"........
The day was also a way of starting another challenge for
those who wanted to........it is a silly game that we
played.....it like musical chairs.....but you have a piece of ugly
fabric......and everyone's idea of ugly is different....anyway.....we stand
in a circle and when the music starts you pass your fabric around until
the music stops..........then we snip the fabric and then rip it in
half........you then keep one piece and get ready to pass the other
piece around...and keep repeating this so that you end up with 7
different pieces of fabric ranging from a half meter to a square about
4''sq....... we then have 12 months to make something with these
fabrics.....where you can add one more piece of fabric......you can dye,
paint, stamp your fabric and add as much embellishment to it as you
like.....
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| these are the fabrics for our new challenge.......they are not as scary as last time.... |
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| Heather's piece from the Xmas 2010 challenge |
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| Sandra's piece from the 2010 Xmas challenge |
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| these are some of the challenge fabric from 2010 |
I hope everyone has had a great weekend with their family and friends
Cathy xo
That looks like so much fun...love the idea of the challenge.
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