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Member Spotlight – Meet Kate

Hurrah! We have a new committee! And are in the process of drawing the Wonky Star challenge which was sponsored by Handcrafters’ House and Sew Sweetness. But it’s definitely past time for a PMQG Member Spotlight, so before we make that post, let’s … Meet Kate. Tell us a little bit about yourself – where you are from,…

July meeting

A year ago, we were meeting at new VP Membership Karen’s house and deciding to formalise as a Guild, with Bob the farting dog keeping us entertained throughout the evening. (This is Bob). A year later, we’ve almost outgrown our first hall and are trying out our second. We welcomed Elizabeth, Di, Kerrie and Sue…

Wonky Star challenge

Time is running out to get wonky! Our Wonky Star competition closes on 21 June. Why get wonky? There are wonderful prizes on offer from Handcrafters’ House and Sara at Sew Sweetness You can make anything at all and Sara is offering members 20%  off her patterns with the code emailed out to you! Kate has made a head…

Fussy Cut Critters and Bugs

FUSSY CUT Design by Susanne Woods Refer to Page 78 and 79 in MODERN BLOCKS I have used a theme of Critters and Bugs keeping the background consistent i.e. white fabric.  Any “animals; birds; bugs and critters are welcome – they need to be small to fit into the 2 ½ inch squares.    The…

Pouch Demo requirements

Hello everyone. I will be doing a very basic demo of “how to add a zip to a pouch” on Sunday 26 May at the meeting. If anyone would like to make their own too, here is what you will need to bring along. See you all on Sunday Gina

Wonky Star Challenge

Star light, star bright, first wonky star I see tonight! Join in our Wonky Star competition!  It’s easy and we have wonderful prizes on offer provided by Handcrafters’ House and Sara at Sew Sweetness . Here’s what you have to do: Check out the Modern Blocks book we are using for our BOM (Page 128 and 178 for…

Retreat part 3 – the products!

Here is the final post about our PMQG Shoalwater retreat – what we made when we weren’t eating, drinking, having massages or shopping… There was a LOT of sewing time and we made good use of it! Sheila and Beryl were prolific in their finishes. Carla deserved that big smile for this quilt top. Cat,…

Retreat Part 2: the people…

What a happy bunch of quilters we had at our Shoalwater Retreat! There was plenty of eating. As well as day visitors, McKenna visited us from the roaring 40s… Or sometime around then with her vintage machine and (saturday night) vintage hairdo. Some people preferred to keep a low profile…  Others couldn’t stay out of…

Retreat – part 1 – the venue!

The inaugural Perth Modern Quilt Guild retreat was held at the Sisters of St John of God Conference Centre Shoalwater, which is about half an hour south of the city of Perth. We arrived to find our wonderful conference organiser, Danielle, had been hard at work. Can you spot where we needed to go? No?…

Dates for the diary!

It’s just under a week till the inaugural PMQG sewing retreat at Shoalwater and those going are super excited… The hardest decision is, which project to take… If you’ve missed out, it’s time to put our Spring Into Spring Retreat into your diary NOW. We have booked August 30-September 1 at The Wine Tree in Dwellingup. Wine and…

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