MPPI Quilting Adventures Blog – November 2013
This blog has been a long time coming. The best Secretary ever filled in for me whilst Drew and I were overseas – a bucket list to Canada, Greece and the UK including London, Ireland and Scotland spending quality time with family and friends. Thanks Margaret – your contribution to the blog has been excellent.
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| Lake Ontario, Toronto Canada |
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| Porto Heli, Greece |
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| River Thames, London UK |
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| Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Kilkenny Castle, Ireland |
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| Oban, Scotland |
We arrived home at the end of September
2013 and got back into the MPPI duties with a vengeance. Naturally the whole group has been as busy as
ever producing Calico dolls for the hospital and comfort quilts for a variety
of nursing homes, hospitals and organisations.
We have a very generous and prolific group of quilters within our club.
During this month we had the opening of the
Christmas Exhibition of the Johnston Collection to which many Art and Craft
Guilds from the Mornington Peninsula have contributed. Between us all we decorated “Fairhall” with
“Tales of Christmas Treasures” inspired by the Collection. MPPI decorated the
Yellow Room with a beautiful Christmas dining setting including mats, bonbons,
napkin rings, a table runner, another beautiful table runner on a dresser, a
gorgeous quilt made by our very artistic Coordinator Lyn Wright, a bowl of
fruit, an interesting swag for the fireplace, a delightful Applique wall
hanging and various colourful Christmas cards made of cloth.
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| Christmas Cards |
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| Christmas Dinner Table |
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| Mantlepiece Swag |
It’s now time to brag about the MPPI Bi-Annual Quilt
Exhibition held at Toorak College in Mount Eliza on 16/17 November 2013, the
profits from which will be donated to the Mornington Peninsula Youth Enterprises.
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| Welcome to the 2013 MPPI Quilt Exhibition |
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| Margaret Roberts with Sarah Simcock, Exhibition Coordinator |
The theme this year was “Under the Sea”
and more creativity was produced from a
large team of our members in the form of marine style decorations , challenge
blocks and postcards, as well as a variety of large quilts and small Comfort
Quilts displayed in the big gymnasium
hall.
The place was buzzing all weekend with
visitors and a number of traders selling their wares. All the traders donated a percentage
of their takings to MPPI for our charity.
Present were Bob and Dot from Jarrah Lacky,
Designer and Manufacturer of needlework
stands and accessories as well as beautiful beading jewellery www.jarrahlacky.com.au - thanks for
all the donations Bob.
Lynda Sibbald of Mornington Wool and
Patchwork Centre, a regular contributor to our events. www.woolandpatchwork.com.au
Jennifer from www.embellishalittle.com with her
cute buttons.
Sarah from www.sewmaterialistic.com.au with
quilting fabrics, patterns and creative kits.
Annie of Designer Stitches www.designerstitches.net with
amazing French & Shadow Trapunto.
Jennifer Stockton of Mount Eliza Needlework
with very interesting embroidery and fun kits.
Lloyd and Ethel Walton with their lovely
variety of woodturning items.
Catherine Clark and Marian Parker from
Tasselart www.tasselart.com.au
And last but not least our own Lyn Wright of
Snugglelyn with a huge range of new arrivals of kits and fabrics.
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| Dot and Bob from Jarrah Lacky |
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| Lynda Sibbald of Mornington Wool and Patchwork |
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| Jennifer from Embellish A Little |
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| Sarah from Sew Materialistic |
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| Annie of Designer Stitches |
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| Jennifer of Mt Eliza Needlework |
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| Lloyd and Ethel's Woodturning items |
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| Catherine and Marion of Tasselart |
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| Margaret and Lyn of Snugglelyn |
Apart from all the fabulous quilts
throughout the hall we had an exhibit of our finished “Confetti Naturescape” quilts
that we made during the Noriko Endo Workshop back in April 2013. This exhibit created a huge amount of
interest from the public and we are very grateful to the Shire of Mornington
for The Smarty Grant, which enabled us to have a wonderful workshop that taught
us all a new technique. These quilts and
the technique will be introduced to various local schools which have a
“Textiles” course on their curriculum and will also be displayed in the
Mornington Library early in the New Year for the general public to enjoy.
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| Noriko Endo Confetti Naturescapes |
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Just around the corner from the above was an MPPI Trading Table with a whole host of items such as soft toys, pin cushions, napkin holders, bags and many other goodies for sale for christmas.
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| MPPI Trading Table |
Walking around all this creativity is awe
inspiring but also makes you feel hungry and thirsty. Of course another team contributed to an
appetizing array of tea/coffee, scones, yummy sandwiches, sweet slices and cold
drinks. The tables in the café were full the whole time.
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| A family enjoying a cuppa in the Cafe |
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| Nancy whipping the Cream for Scones |
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| Emerald and Joyce - happy servers |
Of course no such event can occur without
the raffles. First prize was a donation
of a sewing machine by Janome, two charming quilts made by our members from the
Challenge Blocks of the 2011 Exhibition, a lovely hamper from Made in Japan in
Mornington, another hamper consisting of summer and beach products donated by members
of MPPI and two vouchers from the Sports Injury Clinic in Frankston.
Congratulations to all the winners.
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| MPPI members selling raffle tickets |
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| Sandra Fisher our new President drawing the Raffle winners. |
The last of our visitors left the building
by 4.00pm and packing up and cleaning began with many husbands and members
coming to help.
Thank you all for a very happy and
successful event.
The next event will be our Christmas break
up lunch at the Dava Hotel and with 105 coming we should have a lot of fun and
yet more raffles and door prizes.
I shall blog again following the Xmas Lunch
and that will be our last one for MPPI Quilting Adventures as Margaret and I
have now finished our Tenure as President and Secretary.
It’s been fun and thank you to those who
have been involved and acknowledged this blog.
Ciao from Kathie and Margaret
