Wholly Quilts

Wholly Quilts September Newsletter

 

G’day

I love getting feedback and comment on my newsletters – it is always great to catch up with your news too. Thank you.

My local club has just had an extremely successful exhibition in Thames. It really is a craft that brings us together and was great seeing quilting friends from all over the Coromandel.

Lime Spritzer has two more blocks to go. Already I am seeing some amazingly different colour combinations. I definitely will be repeating this again next year so keep a watch. In the meantime I have designed (well sort of) our next Project (see below).

By the way, no longer are we ‘just’ sewing we can now claim to be working on our PhD (projects half done)

 

Pumpkin Patch

Spring has well and truly sprung, the weeds are riz and I have to say there is nothing nicer than getting the good earth under the nails.

The seed potatoes are happily chitting on the verandah (no, that’s not sitting though it’s not such a bad thing to do in the sunshine J – it is sprouting). Last year I grew potatoes for the first time and came Christmas my son wanted new spuds for the pot and they were all fist-sized. Not your usual little ones! Going to plant several different breeds this year to see how I go.

It is gratifying to see that all my citrus trees, passionfruit vines and the tamarillo have survived the winter frosts. And those weeds … they thrive

Oops – just listened to a rural radio programme while having my lunch and the ‘moon man’ with his long term weather forecast reckons we are not yet finished with the cold wet stuff.

 

Christmas Project

Okay – I have finally found the design mode button and have been working on the Christmas Project.

Initial details are that it will run for a minimum of twelve months (=$60 to participate); it will include piecing, appliqué and some embroidery though I envisage that most of the stitchery will be on the finished wall-hanging sort of similar to crazy-patch embellishment.

The finished size is approximately 50 (long) x24 inches.

Part one will be ready for sending out mid October so you have a month or so to register with me. Everyone that signs up will receive a monthly email pattern in PDF format (or snail mail if that is a problem).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

Natalie Murdoch

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Wholly Quilts

Ph 07 867 3085 or Cell 0210 2231 678

9 Church Road, Mangatarata

RD6 Thames 3576

http://nataliemurdoch.co.nz

http://WhollyQuilts.co.nz

http://patchnat.blogspot.com/ - my blog, where you can read the latest news that may or may not make the newsletter...

 

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Wholly Quilts August Newsletter

 

G’day

Have you ever stopped to think how quilting has changed your life? Maybe it hasn’t but personally I have found it The Most effective (and productive) method of group therapy!

It was brought back to me recently when I received a text message from someone I went out with way back and I mean way back – like 40-something years ago. Yes I was there and can remember the 60s or almost most of that decade!

Alan had tracked me down and phoned for a catch up then a couple of days later I received the following text:

‘I heard about someone who made quilts most of her life. She said the rest of her life she just wasted time. Strange.’

I couldn’t see anything strange about that at all!! When I told him so he said that the first time he met me I was knitting. Knitting! Quilting! Hands working on a project to warm! Sometimes everything changes – sometimes nothing.

 

Pumpkin Patch

If you get amongst the plants in the garden, and you have to when the pruning needs doing, you can see the promise of yummy things to come. Spring is so close to springing that I can savour those little green buds. About the only crops left for eating right now though are the green ones that have survived the frosts. It is those cold mornings though that heads you back to quilts and quilting. Meanwhile the promise of the bright yellow daffies and blooming lavender brightens my days.

 

Projects

I am always amazed at the different interpretations put on quilt patterns. Colour choices and method executions always personalise our quilts and create the variations. It is good to see.

I know I have been promising you a new Project now that the Sampler is finished but life and family have overtaken me this month. I am working on it and will take it with me to Nelson where I am off to in a couple of days.

My big sister has just undergone breast surgery – please keep up with your checks and mammograms for yourselves as much as family and friends. It seems that Karen has been fortunate in that the lump was found early enough.

 

Regards

Natalie Murdoch

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Wholly Quilts

Ph 07 867 3085 or Cell 0210 2231 678

9 Church Road, Mangatarata

RD6 Thames 3576

http://nataliemurdoch.co.nz

http://WhollyQuilts.co.nz

http://patchnat.blogspot.com/ - my blog, where you can read the latest news that may or may not make the newsletter...