January 25, 2014 | Posted in:member activity

This long weekend Canberra Quilters are running a “retreat at home” in their premises at Cook. Members booked a table so they could have an uninterrupted block of sewing time.

Here are some images from Day 2:

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Tricia (rear), Liv (middle) June (foreground) all using Bernina machines for their projects

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June is stitching her applique

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Jill is putting on the final border

 

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Tricia cutting strips

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Tricia- Oh no!

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Jenny sewing some blocks

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Jenny ironing the next lot of fabric she is using

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Jan getting the colour contrast she wants

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Jan trimming the block components

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Andrea sewing a bag

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Berys getting the colour contrast and strips right

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Liv is sewing quilts for our Blankets of Love program – these are the small memory quilts

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Blanket of Love #1

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Blanket of Love #2

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Blanket of Love #3

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Blankets of Love #4

 

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  1. More on the Australia Day long weekend Sew-In - […] the previous post on this topic you saw some of the people in action and what they were working…

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