Gunning Patchwork Weekend

Time to enrol - make sure you get your enrolment in by ANZAC Day to qualify for the early bird booking discount.

Click on ENROLMENT for the forms and information on costings etc.

Some of the quilts require pre-cutting this year - so make sure you are happy with doing that before you enrol in one of those quilts.

Looking forward to welcoming old friends and new back this year,

Peta, Margaret and Maree

PS Remember the black and white blocks from last year?  Here is what they look like stitched together.  They are off to be quilted and will be the prize for this year’s raffle.

**Extra photos have been uploaded in the past few days.** - 2 February

Nomination as the Australia Day Community Event for 2010 was indeed a great honour.  Imagine then, how delighted Margaret and I were to receive the award at today’s presentation. Here is a photo of us with Mayor, John Shaw and Australia Day Ambassador, Marie Kay.

The Gunning Patchwork Weekend has grown in numbers and popularity over our eight years of events and while Margaret, Maree and I do work pretty hard at making it a success, it is because of your continuing support that we keep running GPW every year.

The Upper Lachlan Shire, and Gunning in particular, is a wonderful place to live and raise a family and we are so proud to be responsible for the GPW.  We see it as one patch in the quilt which is our wonderful community.

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

Here is another snap of Marg and I with those shiny awards:

Time to replace the cutting wheels, sharpen your pencils and gaze at your stash, because planning for the GPW 2010 is nearly complete.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be adding photos and information to the various 2010 project pages (check out the fabric painting which already has photos), working with Margaret on the raffle quilt and planing a great new block challenge for you.

Some exciting news for us, the Gunning Patchwork Weekend has been nominated as Upper Lachlan Shire’s Event of the Year.  The winning event will announced on Australia Day - so keep your fingers crossed for your fave patchwork event!

Looking forward to a ‘best-ever’ event this year. Hope to hear from you soon.

Here is a sneak preview of the fabric painting:

Phew! another weekend over - and didn’t we all have a wonderful time?

Lots of kind comments, terrific thanks from our participants and even finished finished a few things ourselves.

Planning is underway for GPW 2010 - mark 26 and 27 June 2010 in your calendars now - we are planning a doozy!

Early bird bookings closed on Anzac Day. There are no more places in Machine quilting, Reverse quilting or Easy Peesy Geese. We will start mailing out course requirements after May the 15th.

There is still time to register for The FAT Quarter. FAT Quarter stands for Finish And Talk - there is no formal tuition - just the companionship, a warm space and the food. We have lots of people coming along to finish off a project.  Check out the link on the right for more information.