Fashionable Bursary Recipient

Sarah Armstrong was awarded a $500 bursary from QCWA. She is from Mt Morgan and is studying textile, clothing and footwear at MSIT in Brisbane. She has put the award towards fees, a pattern making text book and purchasing an industrial sewing machine.
The photo shows her modeling her fabulous creation at the 2nd year fashion night.
We wish her well in her studies and hopefully we will see more of her lovely work in the future.

"Love and Care" project

This project will be adopted in 2011. It is to make a 40" square child's quilt with a pieced front and poly fleece back - no need for wadding. The quilts will be given to a child, as soon as possible when they have been removed from their home by the Department of Child Safety or the Police.

FUTURE CHALLENGES

The challenge for 2011 is a Table Runner up to 1.5 metres. You may like to depict the UN Year of the Forest
2012 - any article with the theme"Recycle It"
2013 - "It all started with an Ohio Star" star to be 30cmx30cm

PLEASE NOTE A COOL CHANGE

The venue for the workshop in January has changed to Sunset Lodge, Emu Park. Details will be in with your requirements list.
Hope you can come.

For women in need

Committee member Sara Faddy with SCOPE representative Anita Turner with some of the donated items from conference 2010


Sunshine Coolum Organisation for Prevention and Education - this organisation helps women and children in refuges on the Sunshine Coast.

Coolwaters workshop 2011

COOL WORKSHOP AT COOLWATERS

Check below for details about the workshop. Register soon as the class fills quickly. (Double click over page to enlarge.)

Members of Nambour North Coast Division made blocks for this banner. It can be re pinned to run horizontally.

Goodies for sale

Here is a sample of some of the lovely items donated to the sales table at conference.

As you can see we donate items to a variety of causes, we always need more!

State Conference 2010 Piecemakers' Display

The challenge to make a bag using black, white and one other colour proved very popular. There were many entries as you can see below.

The winner of the viewers' choice was Pam Strange, pictured here with her lovely bag

Some of the other entries

And some more

A little look at what's been happening in March

The Moggill girls have started on a their New Year sampler quilt.  Everyone seems very keen to get going on this project.

Start gathering your black, white and one other colour material for the challenge bag for Conference.

FIRST DAY BACK AT PATCHWORK

A big 'Thank You' to Pam Strange for all the hard work she has put into presenting this blog to us in the past.

She is a tireless worker for CWA and in particular, the Piecemakers Committee.  Pam is always available with advice and help for those who need a helping hand.

Moggill Piecemaker have been hard at work, over the Christmas break,  and here are some examples of their hard work.  Well done girls.

Coolwaters Patchwork Weekend

On the Australia Day weekend the Queensland Piecemakers again hosted the Coolwaters Patchwork Workshop. Ruth bravely undertook the task of tutor to 23 ladies, in 3 entirely different levels of proficiency. Not an easy job, but Ruth in her usual calm, totally organised fashion, managed extremely well.

The workshop was held over two day, with the out-of -towners staying on site at "The Lodge". We had a wonderful weekend of patchwork, mixed with lots of laughter, loads of eating, enjoying making new friends and catching up with old friends.

A recipe for a very good time.

The comradre between us all was fantastic.

Those who were a little more confident than the others, were more than willing to become personal tutors to the not so confident.

We all worked happily together.

Joy managed to produce what seemed like dozens of cakes, slices and other delicacies for us to feast on, for all the morning and afternoon teas, we shared.

Stay tuned for more details!

Workshop Quilts

The beginners class worked on a nine patch project.

Kath was very proud of her new found talents.

The advanced class worked on strips and curves.

Christine thought she would do a Christmas theme for a change!

The intermediate group worked on a strip overlay. 

This is a completed intermediate project.  A great effort for one weekend.

SHOW AND TELL

We were lucky enough to have some clever patchworkers amongst us, who shared some of their finished projects.

It was a great pleasure to have been a member of this Workshop Weekend. 

We all certainly came away very enthused about Patchwork and the new skills we had mastered.

HANDOVER OF BLOG

This photo and article are per courtesy of the Country Life taken at Conference time with Mug Bags and one of the Challenge quilts. From the New Year I am handing over the operation of the blog to another committee member from Piecemakers and I wish Shirley all the best and I hope she enjoys it as much as I have. Good Luck Shirley.

BURSARY WON BY RHAMAN DONOVAN

This is an extract from Rami's email who was the winner of Piecemakers 2009 Bursary.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. I was very excited to meet you at the "Inside Out Fashion Parade" and very honoured to win the award. The $500.00 has come in very handy and I have been able to get a computer to help me with my studies.
This year is going to be a scary but exciting year. Half way through the year I will graduate from my course and hopefully land myself a job in the fashion industry. My main passions at the moment are children's wear and swimwear.
I would really like to have my own swim wear label called Rurue. Your support has really helped. I am so grateful to everyone from State Piecemakers.

We, as Piecemakers, wish her every success for her future.