Oast Quilters UFO Day

 Oast Quilters hold a UFO day twice a year. Slowly people are plucking up courage to meet together and socialise. I think there were 10 of us yesterday and there was quite a lot of conversation  between all of us. And there there was cake and cheesecake too.

Anyway here's what we did though I've missed a couple as one went early and my table companion had packed up.

I assembled my giant nested circles from the Daisy Aschehoug workshop. I plan to add to the sides.

Marcia with lots of tiny
Batik units.

Heather working on a 
complicated bee block

Jenny's Tula Pink blocks

Ingrid's strip units

Deborah blanket stitching applique blocks

Yvonne is holding a quilt sandwich. Fabrics are 
from her daughter's baby clothes and the quilt is for
her granddaughter: three generations.

Sylvie was making disappearing nine patches. I expected one of the usual arrangements but I really like the jumbled effect of this layout - an idea for the back burner. Being all blues is helpful.

First outing of the New year

 After the lovely time indoors over the twelve days of Christmas it was so enjoyable for five of us to get together in a lovely small village hall (it used to be be two school classrooms) to sew and chat. 

I took advantage of the floor space to set out my giant nested circles to my liking and I pinned numbers on the blocks as an aide memoire for when the time comes to sew them.

Giant Nested Circles taught by Daisy Aschehoug. 

We also admired Maggie's wholecloth quilt which she has expertly quilted on her long arm. It will go to the South African house.

Detail

Binding a perfect choice

She also brought my Carnival Ride (mostly) quilt back for me quilted and ready to bind. I asked for Chinese Porcelain for the quilting pattern and it looks lovely and just right for this quilt.

Carnival Ride block with lovely "Chinese Porcelain" quilting

Since bringing it home I've attached the binding.

I never got round to QOTC (Quilt of the Crosses) EPP piece as I spent the rest of the day tacking my jelly roll strippy in preparation for Carolyn Forster's Big Stitch quilting workshop for Oast Quilters on the 23rd. It is and looks quite insipid but is in fact very pretty.