Braidwood Quilt Event - Deadline approaches for entries

This year, a local Braidwood business, Cortona Resources, is offering an acquisitive award of $1,000 for an art quilt at the Braidwood Quilt Event with the theme

"We are Australian".

As well as this acquisitive award, there is the usual $200 prize for viewers' choice at the indoor exhibition (the main competition, which is open from the official opening on the Friday night, to the end of the day on the Sunday), plus an additional $200 prize for the viewers' choice winner of the outdoor exhibition (the Airing of the Quilts which is held on the Saturday only). There are some other cash prizes on offer as well, plus the usual other kinds of prizes for various categories.

The deadline for receipt of entry forms is Monday October 24, 2011, and the quilts must be received by Monday November 14, 2011.

The actual Braidwood Quilt Event runs from the evening of Friday November 25 (6 pm for the official opening, till about 7:30 pm), to Sunday November 27. If you'd like more info about categories, entry fees, etc. go to the website www.braidwoodquiltevent.org.au or email Jill (the Braidwood Quilters president) on dunvegan@activ8.net.au

You can also phone Jill on (02) 4842 2626, or June (vice president, and owner of the Braidwood Quilt Shop) on (02) 4842 2355.

Wonderful Wednesday Meeting on 19/10

A message from our meeting co-ordinator Jacquie...

The next meeting is in the Community Hall at the Cook Hub, starting at 9.30pm
This meeting starts our lead up to Christmas with a Christmas Fabric Lucky Dip.
So parcel up about a fat quarter of Christmas Fabric from your stash and bring it along. In exchange you will get some fabric that another member could do without and then the fun begins.

You will have a month to incorporate this fabric into something to bring along to the WW Christmas meeting on 16 November.
We will have a fundraising competition at the November meeting.  No exchanging of gifts this year we are going to raise some money for a local charity.
You will be displaying the item you made incorporating the Lucky Dip Fabric. This item must have wadding but need not be a quilt. It could be a stuffed animal, a tea cozy or perhaps a Christmas Tree decoration – whatever you feel like making.
There will be prizes for the best ones.

ROWmakers meeting today- final ingredients revealed

Joanne West reports on today's meeting...
We had another very enjoyable meeting this morning. The design walls were full again. By my count, it looks like we'll have about 30 quilts to show off. I think that's fantastic!

I'm glad we finally have the INGREDIENTS for the final row. To make things easier, I came up with a bit of a twist this time. We chose two ingredients from each list - but YOU ONLY HAVE TO USE ONE OF EACH..... YOU CHOOSE!!!!!

From the first list the INGREDIENTS are : BASKETS or BIRDS/ANIMALS (You choose which one you'd prefer).

From the second list the INGREDIENTS are : PINK or BLACK (Again, you choose which one of these two you prefer).

The ladies who chose these were Helen Percy, Mary Robertson, Pat Kenna and Pam McNamara.

I hope this makes it easier for everyone to finish. At the end of this post I'll include a complete list in case anyone is not sure.
Next month our meeting will be on Wednesday 9 November. As well as our usual show-and-tell we'll have a Share-a-Technique session and a discussion of the guidelines for next year's challenge. We'll also be discussing arrangements for our Christmas party on Wednesday 14 December. If you'd like some input, be sure to come along. Also, feel free to bring along any friends who may be interested in joining us next year. And don't forget that the design walls are a great resource for anyone wanting to arrange their rows (with free "expert" advice thrown in).

 Have fun finishing your rows and bring them along next month.

LIST OF INGREDIENTS

1. DIAMONDS/HEXAGONS and PURPLE

2 .CIRCLES/CURVES and YELLOW
3. STARS and STRIPES
4. BUTTERFLIES/BUGS/BEES and ORANGE
5. FLOWERS/TREES/LEAVES and GREEN
6. HEARTS and APPLIQUE
7. WORDS and BLUE
8. BASKETS or BIRDS/ANIMALS and PINK or BLACK