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Under Construction

Hi folks,

We're in the process of giving this blog a bit of a facelift, hopefully there will be a new and improved website up and running soon...

In the meantime you can still find us meeting every Thursday at the Diamond Creek Senior Citizens Centre for sewing, socialising and a nice cup of tea :)

A Blogger needed

I've really enjoyed my time writing the NOTYQ blog and hope you have enjoyed my posts. Unfortunately I am suffering from some serious health issues.  This has meant I have resigned from the NOTYQ Committee of Management and will no longer be writing the blog or the NOTYQ Facebook page.  I'll try to make it to NOTY when my health permits and look forward to catching up with all my lovely NOTYQ friends soon

Love

Melody.
PS You can catch up with me at my personal blog The House on the Side of the Hill.  Hopefully you will drop by and say hello.

Something else to visit

Days for Girls

I'm hoping to have a speaker come to NOTYQ and tell us about the Days for Girls project. Meanwhile you can support this important charity by attending this event.

The Quilt Shop

A wonderful new quilt shop has opened in Eltham

I am sure you will love it

The Quilt Shop

2/38 Bridge Street

Eltham

www.thequiltshop.com.au

03 84186770

The Patchwork Teahouse

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition. Enormous thanks to each of them.

The Patchwork Teahouse

Shop Address – 3305 Warburton Highway Warburton, Victoria, Australia 3799.

Postal Address – PO Box 530 Warburton

         03 59662400

Email: thepatchworkteahouse@bigpond.com

Open 6 days 9.30am – 5pm. Closed Tuesday.

Opening soon

Next Monday in fact

Gail Pan Designs

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition. Enormous thanks to each of them.

Gail Pan Designs

Fresh from teaching in Europe, Gail Pan spent the weekend with us at the NOTYQ Quilt Exhibition. 

Gail grew up in a home where sewing was an important part of life.  In 2003 she began designing her own patterns.  She now designs fabric and teaches internationally and all over Australia.

Gail's designs feature, stitcheries, needleturn and piecing .Gail thoroughly enjoys sharing her love of needle and thread.

Please visit Gail on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gail.pan.1
and on her blog http://gailpandesigns.typepad.com/

One for your diary

Needles and Pins

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition. Enormous thanks to each of them.

Needles and Pins

Needles and Pins have been in Warrandyte for over 20 years and in December 2000 Kaye Millsom took over as the owner. Kaye has sewn, embroidered, knitted, patched & quilted and created for as long as she can remember, so when the opportunity came along to take on a little quilt shop, selling the things she loved it was the culmination of a dream.
Needles and Pins is at the Goldfield Shopping Centre at 102 Melbourne Hill Road Warrandyte. 

Phone: 03 9844 1720

Opening Hours:
9.30 - 5.00 Monday to Friday
9.30 - 1.30 Saturday
EFTPOS is available and most credit cards are accepted.

Sewn and Quilted

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition.  Enormous thanks to each of them.

Sewn and Quilted

92 Whitehorse Rd,

Blackburn  Vic 3130

Email: carol@sewnandquilted.com.au 
Telephone: (03) 9877 1664

Sewn And Quilted - Summer School 2016

Week 1: 5 days – Monday 18th to Friday 22nd January, 2016
Week 2: 3 days – Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th January, 2016

Week 1: 

• Foundation Paper Piecing - with Carol Nicholls

Week 2: Choose from:

• Appliqué, English Paper Piecing and easy-as Clamshells – with Irene Blanck
• Domestic Free-Motion Machine Quilting – with Anita Ellis
• Foundation Paper Piecing – exploring a few more options – with Carol Nicholls

Please go HERE for more information.

Mrs Martins Quilt Shop.

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition.  Enormous thanks to each of them.

Mrs Martins Quilt Shop

Mrs Martin’s Quilt Shop

Blog: www.mrsmartinsquiltshop.typepad.com
Email: mrsmquiltshop@internode.on.net

133 Emerald Monbulk Rd,

Emerald

Victoria, Australia, 3782

Phone: 03 5968 3360

Overseas 61 3 59683360

OCTOBER GUILD MEETING - SATURDAY 17TH OCTOBER

TRADING TABLES

A big thank you to Pam for organising our guild meeting speakers for the last couple of years. I’ve taken over the job and will strive to make the speakers and events as much fun and as informative as possible. The October meeting will continue our long established tradition of trading tables.

Please let me know by October 12th if you would like to book a trading table for our October Guild Meeting. Priority will be given to NOTYQ members but if there are spaces left we will make them available to others with priority given to groups raising funds for other non profit groups. Cost 10% of sales

Please remember YOU MUST BOOK YOUR TABLE

Please email Melody at melodymatilda@gmail.com or send me a text message to 0433 565 936 to book.

ILLUMINTION SOLAR

Jackie very kindly arranged for Illumination Solar to visit for the October Meeting and I, for one, think their solar lights and chargers will make great Christmas presents for some of my family members who are tricky to buy for.

You can read about their products at http://www.illumination.solar/

B & S MOBILE SHARPENING will also be visiting.

Have all those blunt knives, scissors, chisels, plane blades, secateurs, hedge clippers, axes,pinking shears, overlocker blades etc, (sorry, no saws),sharpened for the special price of $5.00 per item. All work guaranteed.

Your items to be sharpened, plus THE CORRECT MONEY, must be wrapped in a plastic bag and
left in the box at the sign in table at 10.00am or given to Melody, Marg or Anita on Thursday 15th.
If you can’t make it on the 15th, or at 10.00am on the Saturday 17th, please give them to a friend
to deliver. Please make sure each individual item has your name and phone number.

A Display

When Leanne Beasley visited we had a display of members’ versions of her projects and many members said they really enjoyed this aspect of the day so I plan to introduce something like this at each guild meeting. So for our October Meeting PLEASE BRING ALONG YOUR FAVOURITE PIN CUSHION (limit of three per member). They can be made by you, a gift or even purchased...just make sure your name is pinned to the bottom so every little treasure goes home with right person.

The November theme will be BAGS and the December theme CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS.

The next Social Media Giveaway prize will be drawn at the guild meeting too. Would you like to enter? Just leave a comment on our blog

http://notyq.blogspot.com.au/

or a comment or ‘like’ on our Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/North-of-the-Yarra-Quilters-Guild-586616181350670/timeline/

one entry per comment or like.

There will be the usual door prizes and raffle and lots of fun with your quilting friends. Please wear your name badge and don’t forget your mug and lunch.

Free Cooking Class

ASIAN COOKING - DEMONSTRATION AND TASTING

Friday 30 October

Experience the art of Asian cooking and treat your taste buds with a delicious tasting.

Time: 10.30am-12.30pm

Venue: Hurstbridge Community Hub

50 Graysharps Road, Hurstbridge

Booking: 9433 3799 or living.learning@nillumbik.vic.gov.au

No fee.

Dawn McDonnell | Centre Coordinator

Living & Learning Nillumbik

18 Bishops Road

Panton Hill 3759

9433 3792

dawn.mcdonnell@nillumbik.vic.gov.au | www.livinglearningnillumbik.vic.gov.au

Jemima's Creative Quilting

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition.  Enormous thanks to each of them.

Jemimas Creative Quilting

is located at 84 Cimberwood Drive Craigieburn

the shop hours are Tuesday – Wednesday 2.00 – 5.00pm

Thursday - Friday 10.00am – 6pm

Saturday 10.00am – 4.oopm

They are closed on Sunday and Monday

You can contact them on 9308 2699

Gemelli Girls

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition.  Enormous thanks to each of them.

Gemelli Girls  & Sew Jo 

You will have a chance to see lovely Jenny and Jo at our next guild meeting as they are having a Trading Table.

Patchworks Unlimited

We were so lucky to have a multitude of wonderful traders at our 2015 Quilt Exhibition.  Enormous thanks to each of them.

Patchworks Unlimited

  The Shop is located at

25 Pascoe Street

Pascoe Vale

Victoria 3044

Australia

Phone

61 3 9300 4011

Enormous thanks to Christine

On behalf of all NOTYQ members I would like to give an enormous THANK YOU to our quilt exhibition conveyor, Christine MacDonald, who did a brilliant job coordinating everyone's efforts to make our 2015 Quilt Exhibition absolutely brilliant.  I know she worked really really hard to ensure everything ran smoothly.  Thank you lovely Christine.

Here's Christine with our major sponsor, Kate from Kates Sewing Centre.

More winners

The Raffle Winners

We had some wonderful raffle prizes again this year. The proceeds of our raffle will be donated to Banksia Palliative Care
The winners were
1st prize – Quilt Mary Wylie of Werribee

2nd prize – 5 piece bag set Wendy Burgoyne

3rd prize – bed runner Shirley Rappell of Doncaster East

Congratulations to all the winners.