31st July

Hi Everyone, 

On a cold and wet day it was lovely to see all your smiling faces at quilting today. 

Show News Update. At our Show meeting last week the committee discussed the number of quilt entries per member, the charity we are supporting to come and talk to our group, formal invitation to the judge and times required for judging. We also discussed the timing for opening the show and presentation of prizes. Suzie is looking into the rosettes, Christie gave an update on some kitchen issues that were experienced last year. Updates were given on Publicity, Lighting and Stage Sales - these were on track for HHQ holding a fabulous Show.

Debbie U was working on her slow stitching 

Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. The numbers are now closed so that the catering and cost of the retreat can be finalised. Narelle will send you an email next week. 

QuiltNSW

QuiltNSW has sent Raffle tickets for our members to purchase they are $2 per ticket and the raffle will be drawn at the Quilt Exhibition in September.

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Show & Tell

Grace completed this quilt for Community using some fabric from Deidre - the donation that keeps on giving and featuring a fractured nine patch design.

Alison made 4 Baby quilts

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 11th September Show Committee meeting @ 1pm - next week

Reminders

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

11th September Show Committee meeting 1pm

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy

24th July

Hi Everyone,

At quilting today we were warmed by the sun shining through our windows which made our sewing tasks enjoyable with plenty of conversation.

If you wish to attend our mid week retreat in September please inform Narelle as she would like to finalise the numbers of people and the cost for us to pay. However if you are unable to attend both days we can accommodate by you telling us which day you will be attending. Narelle will work out a discounted price for you. We would love to see as many members attend as it is a fun time to socialise, sew and have a laugh at the silly games we play.

Thank you to all the ladies who have been busy making Baby quilts for Little Wonder @ RPA - we have filled the required number of quilts for Father’s Day. Now we are focusing on World Prematurity Day - 17th November, and we ask that each quilt has a touch of purple in it.

QuiltNSW

QuiltNSW has sent Raffle tickets for our members to purchase they are $2 per ticket and the raffle will be drawn at the Quilt Exhibition in September.

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. Come and enjoy the fun at our Retreat.

Show & Tell

Ros made a Baby quilt

Jenny made 2 Baby quilts

Narelle made a Baby quilt

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 24th July Show Committee meeting @ 1pm - next week

🧵 Start planning - if you haven’t already - the quilt/s you will be entering in the show.

Reminders

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy

17th July

Hi Everyone,

Today at quilting we were busy with various projects, sorting out cupboards and fabrics for Waggas. It is a joyous occasion when we can welcome back members who have been unable to attend quilting over the past few weeks. To Vita who came to check us out today and volunteered herself to help with the Wagga fabric sorting, welcome to Hunters Hill Quilters.

The hand quilting of our Raffle quilt has been completed and we are now up to the selection of choosing the binding fabric. Great work ladies. Don’t forget to add your name choice for our Raffle quilts to the list and next week we will be holding our Quilt Show meeting at 1pm.

Alison has busy creating a draw string bag to sell at our show next year. Could this be our next workshop?

Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. Come and enjoy the fun at our Retreat.

QuiltNSW

QuiltNSW has sent Raffle tickets for our members to purchase they are $2 per ticket and the raffle will be drawn at the Quilt Exhibition in September.

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Show & Tell

Carolyn made the top of the quilt and Grace completed it with hand quilting

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 Raffle quilts - we need to start the process of names for our quilts. See Grace with your suggestion.

🧵 24th July Show Committee meeting @ 1pm - next week

🧵 Start planning - if you haven’t already - the quilt/s you will be entering in the show.

Reminders

July

24th July Show Committee Meeting @ 1pm

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy

10th July

Hi Everyone,

Although it is school holidays we had a wonderful attendance at quilting today. We welcomed Jan to our group who I met at Darling Harbour and celebrated Grace’s birthday with a cake for morning tea. 

Happy Birthday Grace

Thank you to everyone who helped with our latest donation of fabric and other items we received today. We are grateful our community thinks of us when sorting out family members fabric collections. We hope that Days for Girls and the Sewing Basket also benefits from our windfall. Marie made the comment today that she had nearly finished her stash of Japanese fabric but I was happy to pass on some more to her today from our donation - keep those placemats coming.

 Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. Come and enjoy the fun at our Retreat.

QuiltNSW

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Show & Tell

Suzie made 2 Baby quilts

Sheila made a Baby quilt

Robyn J made a Baby quilt

Jenny made 4 Baby quilts

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 Raffle quilts - we need to start the process of names for our quilts. See Grace with your suggestion.

🧵 24th July Show Committee meeting @ 1pm

🧵 Start planning - if you haven’t already - the quilt/s you will be entering in the show.

Reminders

July

24th July Show Committee Meeting @ 1pm

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy

3rd July Community Day

Hi Everyone,

Today at quilting was Community Day and we had a visit from Marie’s (former member) husband Alf  who was avid reader of our blog to Marie and saw that today was Community so he came with a quilt top Marie had made and we are going to finish so it can be donated to a good cause. I will post a picture when we have finished the quilt.

Thank you to the ladies who volunteered at the Craft & Quilt Fair last week. It was encouraging to see how well we were received at the show with many people interested in quilting and the different techniques used on our quilts.  We welcomed Michelle to our group today who I met on Saturday at the show and we look forward to welcoming more new people to Hunters Hill Quilters.

🥳 Happy Birthday to the ladies who celebrate their birthday in July 🥳. I hope you enjoy your special day.

One of the Community quilts worked on today

Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. Come and enjoy the fun at our Retreat.

QuiltNSW

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Show & Tell

Beryl has made a quilt using Japanese fabric

Alison’s friend Annie made a Baby quilt 

Robyn S made a Baby quilt

Alison made 2 Baby quilts

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 Raffle quilts - we need to start the process of names for our quilts. See Grace with your suggestion.

🧵 24th July Show Committee meeting @ 1pm

🧵 Start planning - if you haven’t already - the quilt/s you will be entering in the show.

Reminders

July

24th July Show Committee Meeting @ 1pm

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy

26th June

Hi Everyone,

We had a smaller group of ladies at quilting today owing to the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair where we have been asked to feature Hunters Hill Quilters. The setup for the fair was yesterday and we were allocated a generous amount of space in the exhibition hall number 4. Thanks to Grace, Heather and Debbie for all your work on the setup and also Peter for driving us to the venue with all our goodies. Our aim is to attract new members to our group so if you are coming to Darling Harbour for the fair this weekend please visit our stand and say hi. We would love to see and talk to you and take the opportunity to take our promotional handout card.

Kathy is also at Darling Harbour so don’t forget to stop at Material Obsession as there is always something tempting to purchase.

Our 2026 Raffle quilt is a work in progress being hand quilted

It is with sadness to report that one of our fellow member’s husband has passed away this week.  To our dear friend Iris we send our deepest sympathy to you and the family on the passing of Colin.

Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. Come and enjoy the fun at our Retreat.

QuiltNSW

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Show & Tell

Robyn S made a Baby quilt

Narelle made a Baby quilt

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 Start planning - if you haven’t already - the quilt/s you will be entering in the show.

🧵24th July Show Committee meeting @ 1pm

Reminders

June

25-29th June Craft & Quilt Fair at ICC Darling Harbour Sydney - volunteers required for Saturday 

July

3rd July Community Day 

24th July Show Committee Meeting @ 1pm

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy

19th June

Hi Everyone,

Another productive day at quilting today with a visit from Teresa a fellow quilter from the UK who is visiting her family but just needed a day of sewing. It was a pleasure to meet you Teresa and thank you for providing the delicious chocolates which we all enjoyed. We wish you and your husband safe travels home to the UK. Teresa has made her grandson Theo a beautiful cot quilt which I am sure will take pride of place in the home - see photo in Show & Tell.

Our other visitor was Alex - Gill’s daughter who called in to see us. Alex will be sending out an invitation to each member via email for the Celebration of Gill which will be held on Saturday 2nd August in the afternoon. Please keep an eye out for the invitation as Alex will need to know numbers for catering etc and don’t forget to check your spam folder.

We are all ready to go to the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair next week and look forward to having a fun time and hopefully encourage new members to our group. Thank you to everyone who has organised artwork, printing, transporting and setup of quilts and those who have volunteered to help during the Fair days.

Mid Week Retreat

Our mid week Retreat is at North Ryde RSL Club, 27-41 Magdala Road, North Ryde on Tuesday and Wednesday 9th - 10th September from 10am - 5pm. Come and enjoy the fun at our Retreat.

QuiltNSW

Quilt NSW Exhibition 2025, Thursday to Saturday 18 - 20 September 2025

Grand Pavillion, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, 9:30am to 4pm - Free Parking

Show & Tell

Teresa made this cot quilt for grandson Theo

Robyn S completed a Baby quilt

Jenny completed a Baby quilt

HHQ Quilt Show 2026

Show date 14th - 16th August 2026 at the Hunters Hill Town Hall 

Hours 10am - 4pm

🧵 The Raffle Quilt is currently being hand quilted if you would like to volunteer your quilting talent please see Grace or myself.

🧵 Start planning - if you haven’t already - the quilt/s you will be entering in the show.

🧵24th July Show Committee meeting @ 1pm

Reminders

June

25-29th June Craft & Quilt Fair at ICC Darling Harbour Sydney - volunteers required for Saturday 

July

3rd July Community Day 

24th July Show Committee Meeting @ 1pm

August

7th August Community Day

September 

4th September Community Day

9th-10th September Retreat at North Ryde RSL Club

25th September HHQ Birthday Party - bring a glass with you to share some bubbles 

October 

2nd October Community Day

November 

6th November Community Day 

December

4th December Christmas Party

2026

January 

15th January First day back at quilting after break

August

13th August Set up day for Quilt Show at HH Town Hall - for all members

14th - 16th August Quilt Show at Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexander Street Hunters Hill

Until next week.

Happy quilting, Sandy