Messages of Love

Messages of Love

View the St. Peter’s love quilts and Celebrate South Africa

Saturday – Sunday, January 12 - 13, 2013
At the Fish Hoek , Civic Center

       Exhibition of the love quilts of St Peter’s Church

Tea/coffee and snacks offered

9:00 - 3:00pm both days

The St. Peter’s Love Quilt Project is working with The St. Francis Outreach Trust in Simon’s Town, to make special quilts for AIDS orphans.  This project has reached out to schools, churches, scout troops, and others who create art squares with beautiful messages of love to the children in South Africa.  The art squares teach about equality and the power of supporting children in need.  Quilters from around the United States have volunteered to make quilts incorporating the art squares. All funds raised from this event directly support the quilt project and the orphans in South Africa.

December meeting

This Saturday (8 December) from 9am - a fun UFO day - a time to sit and sew - if you'll be there at 12:30 for lunch, bring a plate of snacky eats.  If you can only come at 2pm, no problem - get the penultimate Block of Month - and don't forget we'll be drawing the raffle for the gorgeous group quilt we made.

Have you seen the blog that the Bloemfontein group has?  Oranje Quilters' Guild!

November meeting

This month's meeting this Saturday starts earlier at 1:30 pm as we have a full programme of Applique techniques. If you have samples or quilts with Applique, bring them to share.
  

Guild meeting reminder

Don't forget it is the Good Hope Quilters' Guild quarterly meeting tomorrow.

more details at :  http://www.goodhopequiltersguild.org.za/

Planning...

Last night, Simmy, Glenda, Mary, Tracy, Carol and Karen were busy planning the next year's meetings... lots of inspiring and exciting things in store for the Group... don't miss November's meeting.

Popped into Stitch n Stuff today and was so excited to see all the new material they have got.....mmm cant wait to get started on a quilt for my sister for christmas!!!

Just had a minor panic attack!!!Ive just realised how close Christmas is and how much work I still need to do for all the gifts Im making......

How to add to this blog

We have a person keen to add pictures to this blog, yay!

And this is what I wrote to her;

From within the blog I need to invite you to be an author.  I think you should get an email from Blogger with some sort of verification, just follow that.  If you don't get it let me know!  (I was doing a test to remind me, but the email hasn't arrrived yet.)

UPDATE:   The Blogger xxx has invited you to contribute to the blog: Creative Quilters.
To contribute to this blog, visit:   and a web-link is sent to you.
You'll need to sign in with a Google Account to confirm the invitation and start posting to this blog. If you don't have a Google Account yet, we'll show you how to get one in minutes.
To learn more about Blogger and starting your own free blog visit http://www.blogger.com.


Then on this blog page at top right hand-side "Log In"  "Sign In".

You should then see somewhere an orange block with a pen (if you hover over says "Create new post") > click on it.

Then you can add a Title, some text in the bigger box, and there is a row of buttons, one is to add image.

Once you happyish about it, click on "Publish".

If you click on "View Blog" whilst signed in, there are editing icons on the blog.

If any of this doesn't work, I'll do some screens shots and email them to you.

Happy quilting and blogging.

October meeting

We had a great meeting on Saturday, with two visitors.  No photos were taken!  The Applique demos have been held over until November. 

A few of the group have been invited to be authors on this blog.  If you would like to contribute let me know.

Some news

It's just past mid-winter - and on Saturday it is our "Christmas in July" - and boy the weather the last three days has been really wet and cold.  If you are attending, don't forget what to bring!

We've done six blocks of the month - maybe this should go on until everyone has contributed :)

Who is going to be the next to add to this blog?   If you don't know how, contact me and I will show you that is easy!
 

Keep warm, Karen.

Patchwork Bag Demo. 18th February

Here we are. Are you ready ?

88 squares needed....say 4" squares.
The best bags are made up of several [lots] of different colours and patterns.
Thin batting...say 1 mtr.

4 large buttons.
2 strips fabric...3" x 18"
2 strips batting....3" x 16"

Sewing needle, thread, scissors,etc. See you at the Meeting.

Changes...

This blog is now readable by anyone.  If you belong to Creative Quilters (in Cape Town) and wish to add to this blog, contact Karen!

At the meeting yesterday we promised to put something here, but I can't remember what!  Please let me know.