Thursday 17 October 2013

Here we are again,

 We have just had the october meeting and , my goodness arnt you all prolific!!!
Onca again, some people remembered their name badges.........
Annette and jane working hard.

Christmas presents are being worked on.

That Baltimore block looks difficult.

Joan is working on her book.

Some chocolate muffins were made very welcome.

Lorraine is making a lovely birdy quilt, shes drawn the blocks herself.

Judith has been very busy.

lovely Christmas tree...

Janes pages for her silly hearts book are amazing, those embroidered paisleys are really beautifull.


Jane has included a lot of little gifts from the other people on the silly hearts book class. 


I think this is really clever, and I definitely want to make one.

All wrapped up- cool huh.

this is a lovely American cot  panel and Julie has finished it really well, lovely work.

And so goodnight for now, the next post will tell us what to bring for the next session in November.

Monday 7 October 2013

HELLO AND WELCOME......

Welcome to Grantham stitchers first post on our new blog.
At our last meeting we suggested that we all wear name tags to aid our failing memories.Add caption

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 Annette showed us her lovely denim bag, cant believe she hand embroidered denim, fingers of steel.
Frankie has brought her lovely snowman blocks.Add caption


as I am useless and cant read my own writing I don't know who brought this beautifully stitched bag.Add caption

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nice blocks, Pam.Add caption
another lovely bag.Add caption

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Julie is working on her travel cloth.dd caption


The mile a minute is still going on and Frankie showed us the Sharon Pederson method of joining quilt as you go blocks.......Add caption

Annette and Lynne.....talking.....Add caption






suggested challenge for next year, decorate a shopping bag.

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that's it for our first post, will try to add gadgets now..