St Mark’s Quilters in March

Our March workshop was certainly a busy one, with many of us working on bright scrappy bed-sized quilts for victims of the summer bushfires in Tasmania.

We’re using Amanda Jean Nyberg’s pattern from her book Sunday Morning Quilts (you can buy it from Amazon using my Search box on the right), and having a ball trying out different colour combinations.

Some are quite nicely colour co-ordinated, like Di C’s here.

This quilt’s blocks are being made from a jelly roll.

Another jelly roll beauty.

Others are just a gorgeous, exuberant riot of colour, using scraps from our SMQ offcuts box.

Doesn’t this finished quilt just make you smile

We’re never short of smiles at SMQ workshops. Here’s Moo binding a quilt for “The Marcia”, the kindy for autistic children that we support.

Perdita’s aqua and red kindy quilt was taking shape.

Gail helped Amanda to get started on quilting her latest little Blanket of Love.

The biggest smile of all came from Margaret, who was celebrating her 87th birthday, proving that quilting has no age barrier.

Happy birthday, beautiful lady!

To complete the smiles we even enjoyed an encouraging iphone Facetime chat, face to face, with Linda in Florida. That kind of technology makes me smile.

Such excitement! How can we top that in April?

{Maybe by being able to share some good news about Linda’s post-operative results. We’re all praying for this}

  Di