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Queanbeyan Quilters Inc.
A social group who often make quilts for family, friends and the community.
Wednesday 17 January 2024
Friday 18 August 2023
New Committee and Technique nights continue
Recently we held our Annual General Meeting at which all positions were deemed vacant. A bit of shuffling and interest by newer members and all the positions were filled.
President - Bryony De La Motte
Vice President - Christine Ashley
Treasurer - Chris Gillespie
Secretary - Di Challen
Committee - Monika McKinlay, Cassandra Philpot, Amanda Pratt and Narell Smit
If you would like to join an active group of quilters to share your skills and enjoy social occasions, come along to the club on any Friday night or on the second or fourth Thursday morning of the month.
Thursday 25 May 2023
Save The Date!
After much crystal ball gazing and finding out when the next AQC in Melbourne is on, we have settled on the dates for our next biennial Quilt Exhibition.
Queanbeyan Quilter's next Exhibition will be held over the weekend of 27 + 28 April 2024, with our special catered Opening Night being held on Friday 26 April.
The club is now working hard on the raffle quilts, gearing up to make our own quilts, to make gorgeous items for the Sales Table for you, and try to organise a seamless, smooth and attractive event that everyone will enjoy.
Thursday 20 April 2023
What a great club
One of the marvellous things about our club, and there are many, is that we share things and join in. Examples include putting on a major exhibition with just a few people going beyond, making really interesting blocks of the month to put together for gift quilts, donating goods to go to worthy causes, making lovely items for sale, sharing techniques and quilting knowledge: and the list goes on.
Tuesday 1 November 2022
October meeting and other matters
Firstly, it's great to have you come to read our occasional blog and see what we are doing. A little earlier, we had our Annual General Meeting and changed up the Committee a little.
President: Bryony De La Motte
Vice President: Liz Hendrickson
Treasurer: Marianne Haslam
Secretary: Chris Gillespie
Ordinary Committee Members: Monika McKinlay, Cassandra Philpot, Amanda Pratt, Narell Smit
The club is in good shape and there are many ideas for activities into the future. The membership is very involved in the running of the club, from the way meetings are run to the way the Exhibition happens. Fortunately that is only every two years so there is plenty of recovery time.
Meanwhile, at the October meeting there was a special guest who brought a sampling of her beautiful batik fabrics. Elaine White from Treasured Textiles is always getting in new stock to augment her attractive collection so it was great to see her.
hey will be used to make gift quilts for our vigorous Gift Quilt Program.
Wednesday 8 June 2022
May meeting and other quilts
Hello there! The months rush by, so much to do and so little time to make quilts we all say. On the fourth Friday of every month we manage to get together and share a little of our creations to our very supportive group. May's meeting was well attended and we had special visitors.
Our President Bryony De La Motte was very pleased to make a presentation of several quilts to representatives from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Michael and Kathy. These quilts will go to Ukrainians who have been displaced by the ongoing war in their homeland. Like many in Australia, they both have relatives still living in Ukraine. Michael gave much credit to Poland for the support being shown to displaced persons especially taking them into their own homes. Although there are only a few here in Canberra region now, more are expected to arrive.
Wilma Cawley represented the Makerie shop and gave a talk about Jacquie and her journey in quilting and how she came to decide to open her shop in Gungahlin recently. It is now full of about 5,000 bolts of fabric along with knitting supplies, counted cross stitch, threads and books, as well as a large friendly workshop room. https://www.makeriebyhand.com/
Then on to members showing off their wonderful works. Here is a small selection.
Saturday 12 March 2022
March Technique night at the club
Hello to everyone who makes their way to our occasional blog page. We are all very busy these days with preparation for our quilt exhibition. We still manage to get together for our stitching mornings and evenings and on the second Friday of the month we do try to run a Technique Night.
This month's volunteer was Monika McKinlay, who demonstrated very ably the making of a 2 or 3 in one cutting/block holding/pressing caddy. Certain requirements such as cutting mat of required size, thin plywood to give the construction strength, fabric, batting and a hot glue gun with lots of glue sticks!