Gisborne Quilters: June 2011

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Convict bonnets

Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Emma Eugenia (3) in 1846.

Ann Smith (1) who travelled to Australia on the Elizabeth and Henry (3) in 1848.

Ann Smith alias Mary Ann Williams - had a dark complexion, round head, light brown hair and hazel eyes. She had a burn scar on inside right arm above the wrist and a cut on the little finger on her left hand.

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Ann Smith (2) who travelled to Australia on the Elizabeth and Henry (3) in 1848.

Ann Smith had a pale complexion, brown hair and grey eyes, she had a long scar on the wrist of her left hand.

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Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Edward in 1834.

Ann had a dark complexion, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. She was 18 years old and a nurse maid. She was 5 feet 2 inches and came from Coventry.

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Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Emma Eugenia (2) 1844.

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Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Harmony in 1828.

Ann was aged 24, 5 feet 6 inches, and a cook. She had a fair complexion, brown/black hair, and oval head. She had a scar on the fore finger of the left hand. The surgeon on the ship spoke favorably of this woman during the voyage.

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Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Earl Grey in 1849.

This Ann Smith was from Ireland, she had one child and was a vagrant. She was 31 years old.

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Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Garland Grove (2) in 1841.

Ann was aged 20, her height was 5 feet and 2 inches. She had a brown complexion and dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Ann was a house and nurse girl and she had tattooed letters on her arms.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Convict bonnets

Ann Smith who came to Australia on the Emma Eugenia (1) 1842.

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Ann Smith who travelled to Australia on the Gilbert Henderson in 1840.

Ann was a house servant aged 21, she was four foot 9 inches, had brown hair, a ruddy complexion and grey eyes. She also had a fractured scar on her upper lip.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

QFO working bee

We had a working bee evening tonight (June 22nd) and had a great time. Tania measured and cut the sashings, Helen, Maureen and Margo placed and pinned, Donna ironed and pinned and gave advice on how to iron the seams, Margo and I did some sewing - our best quarter inch seams!!! Then we had to stand back and look at the results. We are not quite finished but well on the way. Good job everyone - this quilt has been really made with love!!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Bonnets

This is where we were up to on June 15th - 8 finished and two to go. Pretty good huh!! I think they all look amazing.

Margaret

Marg finished her bonnett and doesn't she make a beautiful model?

Annette's quilt

I forgot to say Annette even added a label!! How good is that?

Annette's quilt

Annette has finished her "plain" (her words) quilt - if I remember correctly this quilt started because Annette bought the centre piece of fabric and then said what do I do from here?? Beautiful job Annette.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Blog book

Can't let that other blog hog get away with it! We chatted about possibly printing a book of our blog as a memento for the group library. Well, here's a link to a publisher, check it out -

http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=adwords&utm_campaign=feb09

Depending on the cost, we could order a copy.

Wednesday 8th June

Here is a sneaky photo of Pauline and Dorothy - sadly the flash didn't quite travel far enough.
We had a great night on Wednesday - even though things looked serious - well embroidering names on bonnets is a serious job - we had lots of laughs! It was a very enjoyable night.