Merchant for July Meeting

Sue of Country Dawn is coming to our club meeting this Saturday, so remember to bring some spending money!

I was checking out her website this morning and noticed she has a lot of fabrics that would be great for pictorial quilts like skies, stones, trees etc. Also there are some really cute novelty fabrics too. 

She will being bringing a selection of fabric to sell. But if you are looking for something special check out her website and then flick her an email so she can bring the fabric you want over with her. 

Crazy Block Class

Well this time I remembered to take some photos of the class.
Some photos are taken with my camera and then my cell phone when my backup batteries were dead!
Also thanks to Donna who let me use her camera in case my cell phone photos didn't come out.
It was the first time I had used my cell phone for photos and they didn't come out too bad so that's a good save next time my cameras batteries die.    ;-)
I really enjoyed tutoring so hopefully I'll get to do it again.
Here are a few photos I took of my students work.

We did some Silk Ribbon Embroidery.

We practiced Bullion stitches.

 made some Iris's

Aren't these Spider Web Roses beautiful?

Love that curved blanket stitch it adds a lot of movement to this block, and the ribbon flowers look great.

Silk Ribbon flowers and Buds

Donna's concentrating hard, I don't think she knew I took her photo!

Tric bought her own magnifying glass / light to class and we were all jealous

Here's Lynne as well as doing the class, Lynne looked after us all by setting up the tables, sorting the tea breaks and cleaning up. Thanks from all of us Lynne, we all appreciate the hard work you put into organising classes for the club.

Looking Forward to Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the second half of the Crazy Block class I have been teaching. I'm really looking forward to it and hope it goes well. When I taught the first class I was so busy I forgot to that some photos! Not like me at all.
I will try and do better tomorrow. Lucky Marie took a few photos last time so here's a little montage of them.

Here we are discussing stitches and I'm demo-ing some. Hope that's interest on their faces!

Sun Rise and Milton

I thought I would share these photos I took just after sun rise the other day. The colours were glorious, not sure if it's because of volcanic ash (from Chile) or not, but I have been enjoying them anyway. 

from my deck over looking Whangarei 

from the kitchen window looking over the banana palms

As it was a 'red sky in the morning' day, I thought it might get stormy but it didn't.

OK I promised some photos of Milton in the last post, so here they are. Milton comes from Morrinsville, so it  is quite a drive up to Whangarei, but lucky for us he doesn't mind.

To bring all his batiks he has an enormous trailer.

You can see we had plenty of colours to pick from.

It was much easier packing up as there was only half the fabric to go back, the rest of the fabric is hiding in stashes around Northland now  :-)