Friday, February 19, 2010

February 16th, 2010

On Tuesday nine of us gathered. Although it was a warm evening, the overhead fans kept our high ceilinged room pleasantly cool and we agreed air conditioning was unnecessary.  

We welcomed two visitors, Del from Bathurst and her sister Liz and hope they will come again.
Also present were Candice, Carole, Jennifer, Emma, Esther, Evie and Kate.

The Photography Group were in the other room as they have now accepted our right to the room with adequate lighting and presented us with a box of chocolates as a peace offering for previous misunderstandings.

The usual pleasant evening, sewing and chatting and once again Evie brought a new book from her library for our inspection.

Annabelle, Esther's daughter made a delicious Banana cake which we enjoyed. Here is the recipe - thankyou,

BANANA CAKE
 

pre-heat Oven: 175 C
Bake time 35-45 mins (until skewer comes out clean)
Greased cake tin (bundt tins work best as they bake through the middle)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup caster sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract and / or fresh lemon zest

2 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
2/3 cup butter milk
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

3-4 mashed ripe bananas

Method:
Prepare all ingredients.

Cream the butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla with a beater on medium speed.

Continue beating and add mashed banana until incorporated.
Add flour and butter milk alternatively until all beaten in.
Fold through chopped nuts.

Bake for 35- 45 minutes until skewer comes clean. When done, remove from oven and cover cake tin with a flat plate or
dish to prevent drying out.

Dust with icing sugar or drizzle with icing sugar (1 cup icing sugar to 1/4 lemon juice mixed until smooth)

 
Peace Chocolates from the Photographers

Below are the works in progress from our Show and Tell
 
  
 Mt Egmont block from Liz's Postcards from New Zealand quilt
 
Another of Liz's New Zealand postcards.
Carole's hand appliqued baby quilt featuring delightful animal faces.
Emma's Sassy handbag
Jennifer with her Unchained Butterflies.
Candice's Sudoku - a 9 patch, 9 patch. It is made with 9 oriental fabrics, but as the colours are similar it is a little difficult to distinguish in the photograph.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

January 19th, 2010

There were eight of us at the first meeting for 2010, including two new faces. Rather than ramble on I will just post the Show and Tell Quilts. In future, I can see I need to take notes as by the time I came to post the report of this meeting my recollections were pretty hazy! So I will just apologise for the vague descriptions.

Candice and her green fairies
Emma's chocolate Box of Chocolates top. We all thought Desley would approve of this quilt!
Emma's Christmas Angels
Detail from Christmas Angels
Another detail from Christmas Angels
Emma'a afternoon tea quilt mad for the 60th birthday of a lady who has a collection of lovely cups and saucers.
The label of the afternoon tea cloth.
Emma' 3D Tree
Evie's enormous quilt. The accent blue just lifts the whole quilt so much.
Esther's Red Delicious cushion featuring flowers and cherries from Red Delicious.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

December 15th, 2009

This was our final meeting for 2009 and as is traditional we celebrated Christmas - lots of yummy food and interesting Kris Kringles. Also we did not clash with Rotary which was a great relief.

Emma chooses a Kris Kringle watched by Annie and Di.
Carole and Val managing to do a few stitches.
Emma sorts out the accounts and Jennifer smiles for the camera.
Jennifer, Shelley and Barb
Pixie and Carole
Val sewing, Di and Annie relaxing.
The stable door backing of Matilda's Peppermint Ponies Quilt.
 Detail of the quilting on the stable doors. If you peer closely at the large version of this photo, you might make out a hoof or two near the centre and a head in the top left corner.
Jennifer with her version of a Caryl Bryer Fallert design.
Detail of the quilting. Jennifer is very proud of the way the line of the swan's neck follows the line of the feathers.
 Another detail showing Jennifer's beautiful quilting. This time on her Iris quilt.
Sorry Jennifer, I don't remember the name, but the border is Jinny Beyer fabric.
Jennifer's Mariner's Compass
 Jennifer's version of Ramona's Carrum Downs Mystery quilt.
Carole's Bosnaville
 A detail of some of the really cute houses.