Merry Christmas

Hi All
It is Christmas Eve here and we have just had the internet connected up at our beach house today so we feel a bit more in touch with the rest of the world again.  We thought we would get a head start on the summer holiday by spending a few days before Christmas at the beach but unforunately we have had high winds and rain thanks to the tail end of Cyclone Evan that did a lot of damage to Samoa and Fiji.
I hope you all manage a little sewing time over your busy holidays and wish you all a safe and happy Christmas and New Year.
I am looking forward to seeing what arrives back in my letter box later in January.  Can you all note the change of address that I included with my fabric, this is different to the original address sent out at the beginning of the round the world quilting bee.
Catherine

Wichtel

Having a lovely time with Susan, we even had a few minutes to sew a little bit.

Cheers

Susan & Vreni xx

Merry Christmas

Ladies,  A quick note to wish you all a Merry Christmas from Havelock North New Zealand. I hope you all have a nice day with family or friends be it white, wet, windy or warm. I'm hoping for just warm! I had my family Christmas get together last weekend.  Russell's family are coming to us on Christmas day. But this Saturday we are finally (6 months later) celebrating Russell's 50th with our NZ friends at an 80's party here at our house.  The first visitors arrive tonight, more tomorrow and Sat. In July we celebrated with overseas friends in Thailand in a joint event with Jackie's husband, Pete, who is a great mate and turned 50 the day before Russell.
Susan and friends - have a great quilting bee together. You'll have fun making Catherines block like we did.
Merry Christmas, Joanne.

Hope all the New Zealanders are safe and dry. We have seen the aftermath of the Auckland tornado on the TV.

Sorry for the delay on my sewing -lots of grandparent duties and trips to mothers!

Sorry Vreni, I am a little behind with your block but it will be on its way soon. The wonky log cabin looks very summery just what we need here -our local stream was a raging torrent on Wednesday and roads were closed.

Thank you Joanne and Lucy for my blocks and the gizmo J. That is going to be useful as we are layering a redwork(ish) quilt on Monday at the sewing group. I just have one more block to come and then i will put it together. I hope to add sashing in between but will have to try and get a close match as i don't have enough background fabric. The one I used I bought in Singapore so it must be at least 8 years old!!

Happy quilting everyone!

Mx

December is on its Way

Hi All
Just wanted to let you all know that my December block fabric is on its way.  Susan is travelling to the UK via Singapore in mid December and so she is hand delivering Vreni's and then she is going to post Margaret's when she gets to the UK.  Susan has mentioned that Wendy, Jennie and Karen are going to have a day quilting together with Susan and she too has all your fabric so maybe you can all do my block together then.
Jackie, Liv and Jenny your fabric went in the post yesterday.
Susan, Joanne, Lucy and myself completed our blocks when we were at Maretai so I already have some completed blocks ready to go.
My block I have chosen is the wonky log cabin and it will be a beach theme with a centre block to start from.  I have had to send a reasonable amount of fabric so you can decide the placement, width and wonk of the strips that make up the crazy log cabin.
I have included all instructions but if you are unsure don't hesitate to e mail or we could all blog about it.
You may think this is early as you are still completing Vreni's block but we take ownership of our house tomorrow and move in on Monday and if I didn't get it out now it would be January before you would see it.
Have fun with it and make it crazy.
I also would like to thank you all for a fun year of quilting, it has really kept me motivated.
I also wat to wish you all an early Merry Christmas.
Regards
Catherine
Here are pictures of a couple of blocks in the making and there are more photos included with the fabric.

Vreni's Block from Susan

 

 

Hi Vreni

 

Thought I would send you a picture of the block I made for you. It looks rather boring now that I have seen Jackie and Catherine's but I must say I rather enjoyed making this. I didn't use a pattern or anything just saw a picure of a similar block on the internet and decided to give it a go. After the first square I wasn't sure whether to carry on as getting the points in just the right places to match perfectly was a bit worrying without proper measurements and dimensions. But I didn't have to unpick any of it so I am very happy. It is slightly bigger than you asked but I thought you could cut it down when you get it.  Am really looking forward to seeing you next month and will bring all the Kiwi blocks with me  =)

 

Susan x