Still at Scrub Stitching

Saturday at Scrub Stitching is typically a full and fun day with some 'scheduled' events.

We usually have our annual photoshoot. Helpful and click-happy husbands Mick and Tony were the photographers this year - 

Those who blog — 

Sue and I photo bombed this group of lovely ladies (Chooky, myself, Janice, Sharmayne, Lou, Jenny and Sue) —

Two travel buddies —

(I'll come back and replace these photos if I find some that aren't as glare-y!)

After lunch on Saturday we have Show and Tell, which I will put into a separate photo-heavy post.

And Saturday night is dress up night with some fun, a nice meal, and a gift swap.

We're given a theme early enough that we can organise our costumes but not so early that we all spend weeks making them!

This year's theme was Winter in the Warrumbungles - the Warrumbungles being a mountain range/National Park nearby. It also is a Dark Sky Park (limiting the amount of lights, etc, allowed at night).

Sue and I decided to be the starry starry night sky, with simple black capes which we sewed stars (snowflakes actually - take your pick) onto.

Always fun to see how everyone has interpreted the theme (Kylie, Lou with the snowballs and Lianne )—

Christine and Sharmayne —

Miranda (Elsa), Harriet and Tina —

Sue and Chooky —

Mary, Di and Miranda —

Jenny and Chooky —

Kate and Janice —

Jo —

The above photo shows (Solar System) Jo opening her gift in the Make It OR Fake It swap. All our anonymous gifts were numbered and we each randomly selected a number from a tin, determining whose we ended up with.

Gift dispersal in progress, and Betty showing off hers —

Linda received my wee gift —

This notepad pattern is an Anni Downs one. Next time I will put the stitching for the back of it slightly higher.

I received a gorgeous French General bag/set from Lou. As I am running out of time here and this is already photo heavy, I will keep you in suspense and show it in my next blog post. (Code for, I haven't photographed it yet!!)

All in all it was a fun night. After dinner, gifting and hijinks we all settled back into our sewing (of course!)

See you next time,
Raewyn