Tablerunners by Sue
Country Sew N Sews
- Country Sew N Sews
- Wee Waa, NSW, Australia
- Meeting every second Thursday in our local CWA Hall. We are a small but diverse group of people who enjoy having patchwork as a reason to meet. We love to have visitors and enjoy catching up with anyone who might be interested in what we do.
Showing posts with label Christmas Luncheon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Luncheon. Show all posts
Thursday, December 4, 2008
2008 Christmas Luncheon Show and Tell
We had a lovely time at the Cuttabri Wine Shanty where we celebrated Christmas with a luncheon for the last meeting of the year. Show and tell was great and here are the pictures
Tablerunners by Sue
Tablerunners by Sue
Friday, September 12, 2008
September Newsletter
Hi Everyone
Can you believe it is September already!!!! Lots to do before the year ends!!!!
Great to see all those members returned from tripping around. Looking forward to seeing the photos and hearing the stories.
Xmas Luncheon.
We do realize that it is still a few months from Christmas but plans take time to put in place so we are asking if you have any ideas or preferences for what you might like to do to celebrate the close of the 2008 Patching year.
There are a few suggestions in place already and your comments are invited.
1.How do you feel about a weekend luncheon this year? We usually have our function on a patchwork Thursday but we have so many members who are presently working during the week, we are wondering if a Saturday or Sunday would be a better option.
2. Is there a particular place you would like to go? Or, alternatively is someone eager to invite us to their place?
3. Catering or do it ourselves? If you would like a catered affair what/who do you suggest?
4. If we go ahead with a weekend perhaps we should set a date soon so we don’t get caught with everyone else’s parties…….any preferences?
Well that’s all the heavy stuff out of the way……..let’s talk about gifts.
Most years we bring a gift for under $10. This year a suggestion was made that instead of trying to buy something we go to our scraps and stash and make an ATC (artists trading card) which is essentially a piece of work about postcard size. It could be a miniature quilt or a piece of fun. On the back we might write in pigma pen “Merry Christmas 2008 Country Sew N Sews” and all sign. They get dropped into a box and we get to blindly pick out another person’s work to keep.
The idea is to have some fun with fabric. Create something that is small and quick, we don’t have to spend anything on it and if we have fun with it then it says something about ourselves. We then give it away with Christmas spirit…….
What do you think? Let us know if you are interested in doing this.
Borderlicious
The challenge is travelling along really well. As expected some of us are so organized it hurts and the rest of us are taggin along behind.
Kathie has pulled out all the stops with a Mariners Compass centre!!!!! You go girl…..the rest of us are trailing in your wake!!!!!
If you didn’t get the email the rounds are as follows:
Centre
Border 1 Stars
Border 2 Flying Geese
Border 3 Applique
Border 4 Folded Fabric
Border 5 to be drawn in October
Border 6 to be drawn at the Xmas luncheon
Quilt to be finished for the next quilt show hopefully scheduled for Sept 2009. Perhaps we could include what we have completed in show and tell at Christmas.
Blogging
Understandably not all of us have a computer. However, for those of us who do have a computer with an internet connection “blogging” is a really fun way to keep in touch with people who have similar interests.
A Blog is a place on the internet where you can share interests. Really the only way to explain what a blog is, is for you to have a look at one. So, if you have a computer with an internet connection please look at the following sites:
http://clubquiltnarromine.blogspot.com/
http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/
http://kerryswainscottage.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Club Quilt Narromine is the Narromine Patchwork Group, Chookyblue is a lady from a not so far away town and is in constant contact with Club Quilt Narromine, mostly via the blogs and Kerry Swain runs Cottage on the Hill at Nundle.
You might also be interested in our local Alana Galagher’s blog. This is where she displays her cardmarking.
http://alanagalagher.blogspot.com/
Once you have visited these blogs the question to ask is – would you be interested in having a blog for the Country Sew N Sews? We could all have the ability to add items of interest, photographs and such. It would be a way for the travelers and less frequent attendees to keep in touch with what the rest of us are doing. Also a way for us to find out what they are doing.
There are various options to consider with this including privacy issues. The blog can be set up so that only our members have viewing and/or editing access or we could have an open door policy, or a level of somewhere in between the two. My (J.O.W’n) preference is for viewing access to be open and editing access to be limited to our members, provided we are mindful not to use full last names on the site. This gives us the opportunity to interact with the myriad of patchworkers around the world who also blog.
The girls from Narromine tell me their members were very shy about their site in the early stages but as they got to see it develop with pictures of their work they now really enjoy the entire process.
What do you think ladies? Are you keen enough to give it a go?
There is already a trial blog set up for us and this newsletter will be posted on it. Hop in and have a look and consider what it might be like to run something of our own.
Can you believe it is September already!!!! Lots to do before the year ends!!!!
Great to see all those members returned from tripping around. Looking forward to seeing the photos and hearing the stories.
Xmas Luncheon.
We do realize that it is still a few months from Christmas but plans take time to put in place so we are asking if you have any ideas or preferences for what you might like to do to celebrate the close of the 2008 Patching year.
There are a few suggestions in place already and your comments are invited.
1.How do you feel about a weekend luncheon this year? We usually have our function on a patchwork Thursday but we have so many members who are presently working during the week, we are wondering if a Saturday or Sunday would be a better option.
2. Is there a particular place you would like to go? Or, alternatively is someone eager to invite us to their place?
3. Catering or do it ourselves? If you would like a catered affair what/who do you suggest?
4. If we go ahead with a weekend perhaps we should set a date soon so we don’t get caught with everyone else’s parties…….any preferences?
Well that’s all the heavy stuff out of the way……..let’s talk about gifts.
Most years we bring a gift for under $10. This year a suggestion was made that instead of trying to buy something we go to our scraps and stash and make an ATC (artists trading card) which is essentially a piece of work about postcard size. It could be a miniature quilt or a piece of fun. On the back we might write in pigma pen “Merry Christmas 2008 Country Sew N Sews” and all sign. They get dropped into a box and we get to blindly pick out another person’s work to keep.
The idea is to have some fun with fabric. Create something that is small and quick, we don’t have to spend anything on it and if we have fun with it then it says something about ourselves. We then give it away with Christmas spirit…….
What do you think? Let us know if you are interested in doing this.
Borderlicious
The challenge is travelling along really well. As expected some of us are so organized it hurts and the rest of us are taggin along behind.
Kathie has pulled out all the stops with a Mariners Compass centre!!!!! You go girl…..the rest of us are trailing in your wake!!!!!
If you didn’t get the email the rounds are as follows:
Centre
Border 1 Stars
Border 2 Flying Geese
Border 3 Applique
Border 4 Folded Fabric
Border 5 to be drawn in October
Border 6 to be drawn at the Xmas luncheon
Quilt to be finished for the next quilt show hopefully scheduled for Sept 2009. Perhaps we could include what we have completed in show and tell at Christmas.
Blogging
Understandably not all of us have a computer. However, for those of us who do have a computer with an internet connection “blogging” is a really fun way to keep in touch with people who have similar interests.
A Blog is a place on the internet where you can share interests. Really the only way to explain what a blog is, is for you to have a look at one. So, if you have a computer with an internet connection please look at the following sites:
http://clubquiltnarromine.blogspot.com/
http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/
http://kerryswainscottage.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Club Quilt Narromine is the Narromine Patchwork Group, Chookyblue is a lady from a not so far away town and is in constant contact with Club Quilt Narromine, mostly via the blogs and Kerry Swain runs Cottage on the Hill at Nundle.
You might also be interested in our local Alana Galagher’s blog. This is where she displays her cardmarking.
http://alanagalagher.blogspot.com/
Once you have visited these blogs the question to ask is – would you be interested in having a blog for the Country Sew N Sews? We could all have the ability to add items of interest, photographs and such. It would be a way for the travelers and less frequent attendees to keep in touch with what the rest of us are doing. Also a way for us to find out what they are doing.
There are various options to consider with this including privacy issues. The blog can be set up so that only our members have viewing and/or editing access or we could have an open door policy, or a level of somewhere in between the two. My (J.O.W’n) preference is for viewing access to be open and editing access to be limited to our members, provided we are mindful not to use full last names on the site. This gives us the opportunity to interact with the myriad of patchworkers around the world who also blog.
The girls from Narromine tell me their members were very shy about their site in the early stages but as they got to see it develop with pictures of their work they now really enjoy the entire process.
What do you think ladies? Are you keen enough to give it a go?
There is already a trial blog set up for us and this newsletter will be posted on it. Hop in and have a look and consider what it might be like to run something of our own.
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