Lunch with friends.....

 It has been a while since I have posted on this blog........I haven't even posted any photos from our Xmas in July party.....and today I'm writing about our Xmas lunch that we had at the shop yesterday.....most years for our Xmas lunch at a local cafe, but this year we decided to extend our class and everyone brings a plate to share..........there were 11 of us and most of us bought at least two small plates of food to share.......wow....what a feast we ended up with....

some of the food for lunch

What a great group......where is Renarta.....she has the wine...

The Thursday ladies are a great group, we enjoy each other company and although not everyone can come along each week just about everyone turned up yesterday........Julie suggested this we make pillowcases for kids with cancer for our Xmas sewing day......what a great idea....everyone came loaded with bright happy colourful fabrics and we made 13 pillowcases........Cindy had started making some cases before class and finished 7 cases.......so we have 20 pillowcases to send off to a Children's Ward in Brisbane next week......

Pillow case sewers and Kim

Cindy's cases

Other cases

Patsy

Debbie

Cindy

Patsy, June and Pat

I asked the ladies to bring in some Show and Tell ......as I have been away for a couple of weeks June and Lynne have inspired each other to finish their quilt tops for yesterday......OMG.....they are beautiful.........these two quilts are all hand appliqued and hand pieced.....and both will be hand quilted.......I'm impressed.....how about you.......

June and Lynne

June is going to quilt here cream background with black thread and on the black applique she is going to use orange thread......nice....can't wait to see it finished........Lynne and June have inspired me to finish mine now....

Following are a few photo of more show n tell from the ladies.....enjoy

Pat's beautiful star quilt

Lynne's Thangle quilt top

Libby's jelly roll quilt

I really love going to class on Thursday.......we have so much fun.......

I hope you enjoyed looking at the photos of our lunch......we all had a great day.........looking forward to 2013.......

Happy Stitching - - - - - - -Cathy