Scrub Stitchin’ - Part 1

Most of us arrived at Scrub Stitchin’ on the Wednesday and when entering the room it was the neatest and quietest that it ever was for the next few days.  The fresh flowers on the table looked lovely and the goody bags this year were so pretty. 

There were some lovely quilts hanging on the walls.

Chooky,

Brenda.  The petals are 3D on this one.

Betty and Stephanie.  This quilt was made from scraps collected at last year’s Scrub Stitchin’.  As there weren’t enough low volume scraps, some of the brighter fabrics were turned over so that the reverse side acted as low volume.  The design is so effective.

By the way, we could get out our mug etc from the bag, but there was another bag inside which were instructed, on pain of death, not to open.  OK, not quite on pain of death, but I still wouldn’t have liked to have tested Chooky on this one.  LOL

Once I found my spot, it was time to set up ready to get sewing, once all the greetings had taken place, which took the best part of the day.  This area never looked so neat for the rest of the event either.

Meanwhile, Mick had set up camp on Monday, done some odd jobs for Chooky’s Mum and been to the Bowling Club on Tuesday night to play bingo and have dinner with the ladies.  He had a great time.

Back to us.

I did get some stitching done on Wednesday, but I will share that in a separate post.  Our stitching did get somewhat curtailed, as there was a power outage mid afternoon, which lasted until about 7pm.  

Anyway, Wednesday night is always one where we go out to dinner in town and the boys are allowed to tag along. This meant Mick and Tony (from NZ), as well as Mr Chooky and Mr Jules.  This year the venue was the Bowling Club.  It was rather busy down there, as they have a generator and many locals decided that the Bowlo was a good place for tea.  Add to that, they were having a social bowls night.  Mick took his and his mum’s bowls away with us, so he and Tony were able to join in.    They did have a fun night.  As there were going to be so many visitors (us Scrubbers), the Bowling Club decided to put on some meat raffles.  We all bought tickets, and Annette won two.  Well done.  Of course, I bought the ticket directly after her, and just missed out.  Oh well.  Apparently the club cooked 106 meals that night.  Wow!

On Thursday Chooky’s Mum provided nice fresh scones.  Always a highlight.  There were also some other lovely slices.  Do you like my pretty bilby mug?  I do, and it just happens to coordinate with a couple of others of this series we have at home. 

Then……..there was one big surprise on Thursday afternoon.  Sneaky Jo, who had said she couldn’t come due to Tony’s health, popped her head in the door.  What!  They had made the trip.  How good was that.   

Jo got to spend time with us and Tony got to hang out with Mick and Tony.

Once the last couple of girls arrived, we were instructed to open our brown paper bag, in which there was a fat quarter, a charm pack, a reel of Sashiko thread and a couple of Sashiko needles.  

Then Jo put on her tutor’s hat and taught us how to do Kawandi stitching.  It is a technique that comes from India.

Here are a few examples Jo had prepared before.

In my usual style, I didn’t start on the project while there, but am looking forward to trying the technique and hopefully having a completed project to take along next year.

Kate, in her usual style, chatted, carried on like a clown and had her version finished before she went home.  How she achieves so much amazes me.  She is one heck of a multi tasker.

Friday was a day of generally, stitching, chatting, eating.

And impromptu show and tell, as projects were completed, or progressed as far as they could at the time.

There was, however, one fun little activity.  Lou suggested we should all take along a  photo of us as a toddler and then we could all guess who was who.  Well, that was hard. Twenty nine of us took along a photo and in the end Di and I were equal winners and we were only able to work out ten.

This was my contribution, with my special Golly.

The weather was glorious for the entire time, other than one short sharp storm.  We were treated to some beautiful sunsets and the moon was nearly full.  I just had to take some photos.

More soon.