December Meeting

As always, our December meeting was our Christmas party. A great chance to catch up with friends, have a chat and eat plenty.

We had a sewing-themed Christmas quiz devised by Grania Preston which caused plenty of head-scratching on the night.

Our challenge was to make a "One Hour Basket" by Kelby Sews. A free pattern and tutorial to make the basket is available at

https://www.craftsy.com/sewing/patterns/1-hour-basket-tutorial/236408

The One Hour Basket challenge was won by Imelda O'Grady.




Our shop on the night was Fabric Matters. Thanks to Wendy for travelling down to Limerick with her shop.


There was lots of Show and Tell on the night.


Here's 1 of two quilt tops that Suzanne Pass whipped up using fabrics that a friend had given her.

Here's  a lovely child's train quilt that Deirdre Treacy has made.

Frances Shanahan made this lovely baby quilt and matching One Hour basket .

Deirdre Treacy also showed this fabulous log cabin quilt in a straight setting. Lovely use of light and dark fabrics here which really shows of the log cabin pattern.

Here's another amazing quilt by Imelda O'Grady.

Here's a quilt made by Claire Lynch

Christmas Meeting 2010

A very pleasant evening was had at the December ‘Christmas Party’ Meeting on Friday 8th December. Our numbers were low, but the recent bad weather may have been the reason for that!

Everyone very generously supplied an impressive spread, while the hall was decorated with – what else? Patchwork decorations of course!

This month the challenge was to use the fabric square handed out a few months ago to produce something festive. We had a good response to this and the winner was Cecilia with a lovely set of festive hangings.

Loretta gathered in the groups submissions for the ‘Dream Catcher’ exhibition and we had a chance for a sneak preview of some of the finished (and unfinished!!) pieces – good luck to all those who will be finishing off as I write!

The High Plains quilt was on display too – a lucky change of date by the group in Colorado means that the quilt will not be required until the spring – giving us all a chance to see how beautifully it is coming together under Meg’s expert hands.

Theresa provided us with a shop, Chris wore his Santa Hat – all in all – a very festive evening!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Quilting!!!

Rebecca