Can you spot yourself at our recent September sewing day?

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1 October 2013 Can you spot yourself at our recent September sewing day? Awarm welcome to SEWING DAY/NIGHT. There is no shop this month as it is our members Bazaar, so be tempted with the goodies fellow quilters have on sale. A big thank you to our hostess groups for SEWING DAY Creative Threads who will be looking after us and Loose Threads on SEWING NIGHT. VISITORS AND NEW MEMBERS If this is your first visit and you don t have a group, please feel free to sit at the Loose Threads table to meet us. We are delighted that you have joined us. Visitors are welcome to attend three times after which you are required to join as members in order to continue enjoying the benefits that membership provides. The West Australian Quilters Association Inc. waqaweb@gmail.com Website: waquilters.com

2 Quilt Detail: Blooming Azalea - Yvonne Skodt MEMBERSHIP Membership renewals are now due. Please forward your completed renewal form along with your payment to the Membership Secretary at Sewing Day, Sewing Night or by post to the WAQA mailing address found on your renewal form. You can also renew via and pay with your credit card. Please contact the Membership Secretary, Shari Jamieson, at waqamembership@gmail.com COMMUNITY QUILTS You can now find Sept s BOM, Bento Box and Split 4 Patch, on the website under CQ patterns. Please return these and any other outstanding blocks as we are hoping to put them together at Oct 27 CQ Bee at Alexander Craft House. We would be delighted and grateful for your help at this the last bee for There will be no BOM in Oct or Nov but we will have some UFO s and projects ready for you to take to finish off. CALLING BERNINA SERIES 7 AND 8 OWNERS Ocean Keys Sewing Centre is presenting a Bernina Special Presentation Friday 18 th October 9.30am - 12noon Brad from Bernina Special Presentation Brad will do a presentation on the new paintwork software available for the Bernina 8 or 7 series embroidery machine and afterwards a chat on these machines. Brian Burnell has been kind enough to allow his head technician Brad to come up to Ocean Keys Sewing Centre so that all you ladies in the northern suburbs that can t get into the city or down to Cannington can also have the opportunity to learn about their machines. This is an ideal time to hear from Brad who knows all about the machines and hopefully you will learn some of the workings of these great machines. A short question time will be available after the event. Even if you don t own a Bernina 7 or 8 series machine but would like to attend to see and discover what they can do you are very welcome. Do you have a favourite charity? We have quilts ready to offer for charitable fundraising. PMH, foster kids and womens refuges are in need of quilts suitable for teenagers. We are still collecting manly quilts for St Barts. CQ will be having a stall at the Oct members bazaar. We have fabric, books, magazines and a few notions for sale. Plus a silent auction for magnificent men s suiting fabric swatches. Melbourne Cup Race Day: We have a few places left for our inaugural CQ sewing racing day to be held in Palmyra,!0-3pm, with all the usual fun and silliness of a race day with lunch, raffles, prizes all the while producing community quilts. Please see Gwen or Prue at sewing day and Lesley at sewing night or Gwen at :- wacommunityquilts@gmail.com To allow for catering etc please be kind to register your interest or book your place. Cost $5.00 includes morning tea (on arrival) and lunch afterwards Snapshot of WAQA members after admiring the community quilts destined for St Barts seen in the background.

3 PERTH ROYAL SHOW 2013 Sewing Day Party Tuesday 19 th November Evening Christmas Party Wednesday 4 th December Come and enjoy an early Christmas with your Quilting friends. Prizes will be given for Best Christmas Hat/Fascinator Entertainment will be provided. Bring a plate of goodies to share with friends and don t forget those Christmas projects to inspire us all. Donations: ** small gift for a Mother in a Women s Refuge (Please leave unwrapped) ** a non perishable food item for a person in need. Thank you to all who entered items into the Patchwork/Quilting Classes in this years Perth Royal Show - an interesting and colourful display was able to be mounted. Congratulations to the following prizewinners: Best Exhibit in Patchwork/Quilting Classes: Tracey Bareli Exhibitor gaining the most points in the Patchwork/Quilting Classes: Lesley Fry Novice Class: 1 st, Tamara Kowald 2 nd, Aletta York 3 rd, Alice Dimoff Open Classes: Bag featuring a Cow Quilt, Hand Quilted: 1 st, Norma Nielsen 1 st, Wendy McPhail 2 nd, Lesley Fry 2 nd, Kaye Gauci 3 rd, Val York Quilt, Predominantly Applique: Quilt, Traditional 1 st, Lesley Fry 1 st, Tracey Barelli 2 nd, Megan Byrne 2 nd, Lesley Fry 3 rd, Philippa Thomas 3 rd, Philippa Thomas Highly Commended, Kaye Gauci Highly Commended Wall Hanging or Small Quilt: Lynley Davey 1 st, Tracey Barelli Kerry Moore 2 nd, Hilary Arber Kaye Gauci 3 rd, Kaye Gauci Patchwork/Quilted Article Miniature Quilt 1 st, Ross Elliss 1 st, Kasia Shegedin 2 nd, Hillary Arber In addition, Kaye Gauci received a Special Judges Commendation for her excellent stitching on her entry in this Quilt Traditional Class Lesley Fry Perth Royal Show Representative QNEWS: The QNews databate will be updated during next month. If you would like to have the QNews ed please advise Sheila at waqaweb@gmail.com. It is anticipated that the QNews will be available on line in the very near future. We encourage ALL MEMBERS to come to both parties and celebrate Christmas with your Quilting Friends.

4 PLEASE NOTE CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH Sewing Day: 10am - 3pm Tuesday 15 th October Stirling Adriatic Club, Jones St Stirling Quilt Detail: The Farmers Wife Sampler - Val York DEAR JANE GROUP - Leader: Jan Reid waqaweb@gmail.com Our next meeting is one week earlier (October 13th) than usual due to hall bookings. If you are interested, come along and be inspired by some amazing quilts and works in progress by this enthusiatic group of ladies. Cost $5 tea, coffee and biscuits provided. Jan Reid and Ellie Cross LIFE MEMBERSHIP Congratulations to Bev McGrath who received Life Membership at the recent AGM, presented to her by immediate Past President Barbara Daniels on behalf of WAQA. Sewing Night: 7.30pm pm Wednesday 16 th October Stirling Adriatic Club, Jones St Stirling Committee Meeting. Thursday 24 h October: 7pm Alexander Craft House. Hexagon/Crazy Quilt Club. Friday 25 th September 11am 3pm Wembley Downs Uniting Church House Applique Junkies Sunday 3 rd October Contact: Rebecca waqaweb@gmail.com Roleystone Friendship Day Wednesday 13 th November 10am pm Roleystone Country Club Wygonda Rd Roleystone Contemporary Quilt Group. Friday 11 th October 10am - 3pm Speaker: Helen Rhodes. Friday 8 th November 10am 3pm Alexander Craft House, Clyde St, Menora facebook.com/waquilters facebook.com/stitchedbound. Dear Jane Group Sunday 13 th October 12 midday - 5pm Alexander Craft House, Clyde St, Menora

5 WAQA COMMITTEE President Sheila Pye Vice President Phil Thomas Correspondence Sec Lesley Fry Minutes Secretary Judy Campbell Treasurer Moya Streek Membership Sec Shari Jamieson Editor QQ Mylene Pypjers Workshop Convenor Dawn Trainor Publicity Officer Norma Nielsen ACQ Rep Stephanie Knudsen Librarian Jean Wills Committee Officer Dianne Phillips Association Archivist Norma Nielsen Association Historian Phil Thomas Buyer of Books Liz Burrowes Library Cataloguer Thea Williams Challenge Quilts Meg Cowey Community Quilts Gwen Parry, Prue Linge Contemporary QG Stephanie Knudsen Country Liaison Jan Reid Country Librarians Judy Clayden, Katie Hill Royal Show Rep Lesley Fry Hostess Group Co-od Day: Wendy Blackmore and at Night Trish Yensch Insurance Liaison Dianne Phillips Judging Convenor Stephanie Knudsen Keeper of the Goods Eleanor Shapiro Assistant Librarian Lisa Repsevicius Retreat Convenor Carol Brady Small Groups Co-od Robyn Grubb S and B Exhibition Stephanie Knudsen Mail Clerk Lesley Fry Teacher Accreditation Jocelyne Leath Valuation Convenor Robynne Vallence Website Author Phil Thomas Qnews Editor Sheila Pye waqaweb@gmail.com Quilt Historian Margaret Manson QuiltWest Convenor Marion Steed quiltwa@gmail.com

6 Any notices for the QNews must pertain directly to WAQA activities. Notices for members charitable events may be included if space permits and at the discretion of the management committee. Please send submissions to with 'newsletter' in the subject line. All submissions are subject to editing. You are receiving this because you are a financial member of WAQA and have supplied your to us. If you no longer wish to receive notices from WAQA via , please contact me. Sheila Pye QNews Editor