Hardanger experts

Two of the ladies who come to Wednesday stitching love hardanger. I must admit I don't understand that as I always have difficulty getting the counting correct. I do love the result though. This is Gwen's work in progress.

This picture includes her lovely silver thimble container. 

This beautiful red tablecloth is being worked by Marion. She is weaving with gold thread. Marion and Gwen are so clever!

Wednesday morning social stitching

Here are the Wednesday morning social stitching girls at Hobbysew. We have about 15 ladies who come most weeks to chat and "sometimes" stitch on their own projects. They are doing all sorts of needlework and it is a lovely time of socialising as well as stitching. It is very motivating to see the different things they are working on.

Marilyn made this lovely quilt for Val who has had a special birthday recently. 

Jan is working on a stitched butterfly.

Donna is working on the most exquisite wool blanket. She is very innovative and creates the designs herself. We look forward to seeing what she will add next.

Najelle's beautiful stitching

Yesterday at Hobbysew, Najelle showed us her finished angel table mat. It is so beautiful as is her stitching. It is a pattern by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched . 

Not only is she a lovely stitcher but she wears very fancy shoes to work!!!! 

Be Attitudes Quilt

This quilt is the "Be Attitudes" Quilt designed by Nancy Halverson of Art to Heart. I love her designs and have a large collection of her books, especially the Christmas ones. I made this last year as a sample for Hobbysew as they sell it as a BOM. It was fun to make with pieced backgrounds and blanket stitch applique. The fabric is one of Nancy's ranges called Williams Inn and it is such nice fabric. I am using it for my "Your Home or Mine" quilt as well. They are definitely my colours!

Sharing Buttons

A few weeks ago, some of my Wednesday night girls made the little evening bag in class and a few had them to show. They looked really good and I hope they bring them to show us another time. They needed a decorative button to complete the bag. It was lovely to see that last week, Sue and Margaret brought their pretty buttons to share with some of the ladies that needed one. Here they are.

 

It is so nice to share and help each other. The ladies were also swapping squares to help make their starry quilts as scrappy as possible.

Another picture of my class

Here are Barbara, Carol and Margaret showing off their star blocks.

Lovely ladies on Wednesday night

Thought I'd share a few photos of my lovely ladies of the night. These girls have been coming to my classes for a long time and we have a really good time on Wednesday nights at Hobbysew. Most of them were working on their Starry quilts last night but several were doing other things as well.  We do a lot of chatting, share ideas and enjoy each others company and occasionally we stitch!

Here are Danielle,Sue and Margaret hard at work. Danielle is working on her canvaswork, Sue on a stitchery and Margaret is decorating a lovely hand towel for her daughter, who is getting married soon.

Margaret and Carol worked on their star blocks and Carol was very excited to complete one. I am not sure she was too pleased to realise that she needed to make about 40 more! 

Margot and Linda chained lots of squares together for their borders and Judy completed a star block too.