Sussex Vale Quilters' Guild

We got together to sew a quilt top that will be the raffle quilt for the 2016 quilt show.  Here's Joyce Bean  doing some pressing....notice the staging behind her...it's relatively new and really snazzy.  The church hall is used for a lot of musical evenings and this makes for a great venue. Ann, Judy, Ethel and Jean all working their little hearts out sewing and cutting and matching and making it all work. It's great to have an assembly line atmosphere when putting together a top and even greater when many hands help out. Sandra, Helen, Marilyn and yours truly had this station. You can see the new chairs the hall has and are they ever comfortable. They just spoil us so much.... Sheila and Vera are getting the table ready for the lunch crew plus a place for the workers to eat their own lunch before the meeting.  Cheryl is busy working away on her scrappy nine patch...hers has coral grouting and spring/summer flowers in the patches...really pretty and so feminine

 Now that I figured out how to transfer pictures on my ipad to my computer you can have a look at what happened at the Villa Madonna this year.  Here's Jean Thompson's table runner...the fabrics in this are wonderful... Ethel decided she needed some insanity in her life and made this amazing table topper out of teen-tiny half square triangles.....she was still smiling after putting it together so I guess she's still with us... Carolyn, Joy, JoAnne and Pat  busy working away...  Marilyn got a few projects done and started a hand piecing one just for fun. Bet you didn't know there was a wine party on the go.  Here the girls are sampling the various wines that came along for the trip and  the tasty dip the cooks made just for us.  Talk about getting spoiled.  Marilyn cutting out her hickory nuts and Muriel walking by on her way to the library where she had her squares spread out.....you can see the black and white (and a little red) quilt below.

Gillian loves making this Sweet Sixteen bag  so much she made some more. This one has the nine patch incorporated into it ....it looks smashing! Here are a Mommy and Daughter combination of the same pattern.  I think she is having some fun. Marilyn found this really neat cowl pattern that has three layers that are different lengths and lay on top of each other to form the cowl.  AND the wool is soft and a little fluffy.  Here's her Scrappy Nine Patch...all quilted by Agathe and looking amazing.  Susan brought in this quilt with appliqued squares...wonder where she got those squares????? A sweet wall hanging from a kit that she got at the Chinese Auction...an original pattern by Joan Smith. This quilt of Susan's has "Frozen" characters on it. I recognized Olaf for sure.  Bet it is for a grand daughter....then again, maybe it actually is for Susan herself.  Hugs and Kisses.....no not for you...it's the name of the pattern for this quilt.