Jo's Pinwheel

Jo remade the top of this quilt for her grandson BJ. It was one of his beloved quilts that had worn through and he didn't want to part with it. So Nan came to the rescue. Jo made the top and quilted it to his existing quilt.

BJ was delighted with the outcome.

Dora

Jo has made this colourful Dora quilt for one of her Grand daughters. It is a single bed size and I'm sure that any little girl would just love it.

Embroidery and Quilting

This quilt is a combination of work by my Mum [Pene] and my Grandma [Madeline McLaughlan, late of Boolboonda].
When Grandma was unwell and in the Monto nursing home she was still able to do the embroidery she had been taught and did as a girl. Her eyesight was still great [thanks to Mum insisting she have cataract surgery], her hands steady and her mind sharp. She fell in love with the primitive-style drawings that were easily done with lines of slip stitch and then embellished with the odd flower worked in other stitches.

Mum drew the designs onto calico for Grandma to work. After they were stitched Mum collected them together and sewed them into the quilt you see above. [Click on the picture to see it bigger]. This will be given to one of my uncles or aunts.

The embroidery kept Grandma active and engaged when she was in the nursing home and she managed to do enough calico patches that Mum will be able to make 3 quilts from them. The others will be different colours. Grandma did all these blocks in similar tones of embroidery thread but the others included more colour.

I really look forward to seeing the rest finished too.

Congratulations Mum - it looks great!

by Eldest Daughter

Here we are pinning a quilt ready to have quilted. When finished this quilt will be raffled.

Irish Chain

Di is working on her Irish Chain quilt. This is Di's first "real" quilt.

She is very proud of her achievements and loves to show them off.

This is Rose.

Rose has made this scrappy quilt for her brother-in-law's 50th birthday.

She added a personal touch with beer labels appliqued on the underside.

Happy Birthday Brother-in-law.

Red Herrings

This quilt is call Red Herrings and I made it for my dad.

I found this pattern on the internet when I first started patchwork.

It was one of those patterns that went in my "one day" list. Well that day came after we held our Biggest Morning Tea Show & Tell back in May of this year. After seeing some exquisite quilts I desided it was time to move forward. 120 squares to make 30 blocks and less than 3 months to have it finished by the 16th August 2008. I did it with 10 days to spare.

My only problem was what if Dad hated red? He doesn't! He loved it and I love him! Happy Birthday Pop!

This is Di.

Di has never sewn before so she started with a scrapy quilt and did a wonderful job. This photo shows how proud she was when she stitched her first square.

Jo's Work

Jo has made a bag and a cot quilt for her great grand daughter.

Angels and Roses

When my daughter was young my mother made her this really lovely calico and lace angel. When my daughter left home she left her angel behind. She now hangs on my bed knob.

As she has aged the thread that the angel's hair was made out of has slowly changed colour and is now a nice, gentle ginger that tones with the layers of lace that make up her dress.

If you talk nicely to my mum, she might run a workshop and show you how to make your own angel.

The other thing I have done is crochet a wrap with a string of Irish Roses on each end. The thread was a baby weight made from Merino and Bamboo and was the softest and smoothest yarn I have ever worked with. The colour doesn't show well - it's a light khaki and suits my colouring really well.

Hope you like it...

Primitive Country Farm

by Maria

Boolboonda's BIGGEST Morning Tea

The Biggest Morning Tea for Cancer is the Biggest Morning Tea for Boolboonda

Organisers for the Biggest Morning Tea held at the Boolboonda Memorial Hall on Saturday 24 May 2008 were pleased with the community response that saw over $520 raised for the charity event.

Organiser Mrs Pene Mahoney said that approximately 62 people attended travelling from Childers, Bundaberg, Gin Gin, Mount Perry and even Toowoomba to support the Australia-wide fundraising effort.

Boolbonda did it a little differently and combined the usual tea and scones with a sausage sizzle overseen by the menfolk and displays of various handicrafts created around the district. The usual morning tea went for most of the day as everyone socialised and enjoyed themselves.

The walls of the rustic hall were hung with quilts and hand-beaten cow-bells were displayed along with hand-made dolls created by an artist from Oakey.

Ms Judy Honour was the guest speaker and talked about her experience with cancer while Ms Julie Tracey from Toowoomba gave a presentation on her traditional block quilts.

Fellow organiser Mrs Maria Bywater said that the support of Mr Scott Wallace who donated 6kg of sausages and the donation bags of fruit rolls from Brumbies, Sugarland was greatly appreciated. Wonbah Winery also supported the event with door prizes of wine.

‘It’s the support of locals that help make this sort of thing the huge success today has turned out to be’, Mrs Bywater said.

The organisers, the Boolboonda Hall Quilters, would like to thank those who made the donations and everyone that turned up and supported on the day.

The start of something new...