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Wholly Quilts March Newsletter

 

G’day

I am totally discombobulated! My favourite sewing machine is away with Mr Fixit and it’s just like having a limb missing. Anyway it is too hot to be sewing under a quilt and the weather looks set to continue despite autumn starting tomorrow.

 

My wee exhibition at the local art gallery starts next week and the closest I have come to quilts this week is ensuring all have hanging sleeves, labels etc.

 

My teaching contract for the Remarkable Symposium in April 2011 has now been confirmed. I am teaching three new classes – the Tartan Rug, One Fabric-One Patch and Ooey Gooey Hugs (a variation on my old favourite Ooey Gooey Hearts). I look forward to catching up with some of you in Queenstown next year.

 

Lime Spritzer BoM

The first block is out there and I hear already there is a ‘lime spritzer’ party planned for later in the year for the big reveal.  Number two block will be heading out mid-month.

 

Pumpkin Patch

I think the twitch weed is winning in my patch; however I can spot at least 10 pumpkins including one hanging from the boundary fence. There are still lots of flowers and busy bumble bees so maybe others will come along.

Speaking of garden stuff I have been picking and pickling gherkins, jalapeños, tomatoes, gherkins, cape gooseberries, plums, garlic, beetroot and did I mention gherkins? All from my garden – how satisfying and delicious for the coming months!!

 

And to repeat - I have been planning my year:

Sew n Soup will start again on March 26 – last Friday of each month, $15 each from 5-ish        and you can sew till whenever. First up we’ll be playing with the Disappearing         

9-Patch block. This is a great little technique for a lap or cot quilt.

Retreats - $165 each from Friday night through to Sunday afternoon. Catering for 3-8.

Let me know if you would be interested in another open retreat where you can come by yourself and meet others.

Tuesday afternoon – open classroom ($10). Let me help solve your problems, teach you new

            techniques and push your boundaries

Classes – at my place or yours, I have been teaching for nearly 20 years. I have many   original patterns and classes and can work with all techniques and patterns showing

you lots of quick tricks and tips along the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 February Newsletter

 

G’day

 

I don’t know how many of you have caught up with my occasional blogs. They have been written under the heading ‘the gardening quilter’ but the gardening bit has proven so prolific that it is quickly becoming the cooking quilter.

I have great memories of my mother bottling and preserving all sorts of fruit and vegetables and I have to say it is almost as soul-satisfying as quilting – out of scraps you can create something beautiful.

Those that turned up for my first picnic day contributed to a lovely event that I hope to repeat in a year’s time. Catherine won the big raffle and Grace’s was the prize sunhat.

 

Lime Spritzer BoM

Last call to join this project – I have been waiting for all those ’first meetings of the year’ for you to check with club-mates and now must get numbers and full postage addresses.

Remember: The cost for lime fabric and pattern will be $2 ($20) per person per month if I do a bulk mail out (ie eight or more people) or $2.50 ($25) for individuals.

The first block and fabric will be in the mail on Monday 13 February. So far I have over 100 eagerly waiting for that delivery.

 

Pumpkin Patch

Was out there this morning pinching the ends off the vines as they had ‘turned’ on me. Pumpkins are not required in my potato patch or climbing the latticework around my garden room. One leader is almost to the top of the cabbage tree along the boundary – I suppose picking pumpkins with a ladder has been done before J

 

Quilting and summer do not mix too well but I have an exhibition coming up next month and need to produce a few more quilts to show. As a (long-retired) journalist I am used to writer’s block but this quilter’s block is a whole different matter – I can’t seem to get my head around colours let alone patterns or styles. Still I have three weeks …

 

I have been planning my year though:

Sew n Soup will start again in March – last Friday of each month, $15 each from 5-ish and

you can sew till whenever

Retreats - $165 each from Friday night through to Sunday afternoon. Catering for 3-8.

Let me know if you would be interested in another open retreat where you can come by yourself and meet others.

Tuesday afternoon – open classroom ($10). Let me help solve your problems, teach you new

            techniques and push your boundaries

Classes – at my place or yours, I have been teaching for nearly 20 years. I have many of my

original patterns and classes and can work with all techniques and patterns showing

you lots of quick tricks and tips along the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

Natalie Murdoch

--

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...