Cane Country Squares

Hello Dancers, I hope over the last two weeks you have been keeping well. With the latest Government regulations and legislation to help slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus in Australia, this makes coming back to dancing this week not viable. Unfortunately lots of sporting and social groups are affected by these measures. We just have to ride it out and hopefully we will be back dancing soon. At this stage, it’s too early to announce a future return date until the Government sees the outcomes of their measures in trying to contain the Covid-19 virus and then loosen the current laws to allow groups like ours to start up again. So in the interim, we hope everyone will stay safe and try to keep in contact with each other. To help any boredom you may have being at home, here is some word search puzzles that I have put together for the learner classes and learn plus group so you don’t forget what you have learnt. I would also like to encourage everyone to check out our club ...

Cane Country Squares started our first sewing bee session, Saturday 29th of February. Twelve ladies and two guys met to look at skirt designs or a bit of socialising. We traced patterns, discussed fabric types and costs along with dress codes, changes in traditional outfits, current trends and expectations of what is worn to different events. A few of us met at John and Sandy’s home again on the 21st to look at more patterns and cut out fabric. Jo brought along some examples of panel skirts, with and without ruffles. We also had a few second hand skirts available for those that wanted them. We shared patterns for multi panel skirts and some more challenging styles collected from past conventions. These included a 'banana' skirt and a 'swirl' skirt. To finish our projects, we will no longer all meet at Fran’s Sewing Solutions, to access her sewing machines. Some ladies are now confident to complete their skirts on their own machines at home. A few more have ch...

While dancing has been postponed, the sewing bee this Saturday will still go ahead at Sandy's place. Bring along fabric of your choice and we will help with the pattern layout and cutting. If you don't have a pattern made yet we will help you make one on the day. Latter we can arrange times for access to Fran's Sewing Solutions and help you sew your fabric together to create your skirts.

Greetings all Cane Country Squares members and friends, It is with great sadness that we have decided to suspend all square dancing after Tuesday 17th March for two weeks with a proposed recommencement of Tuesday 31st March. With the new developments announced Sunday regarding restrictions for international visitors, mass gatherings and “social distancing” we feel we should take this action until we can get more information and clarity. The last thing we want to appear to be doing is creating panic so this is just a temporary measure until we can get more information. Like many of you, I would like life to go on as normal but while things are uncertain we believe we must be seen to be putting the well-being of our members and dancers first and taking no chances. One reason the government is taking this action is because other countries admit they did not take action quickly enough so for the present time we must take their word for it. We have been sent information from The ...

Friday 13th of March 2020 was our 37th Birthday celebration with a shared buffet meal and a black & green theme dance. Our club banner was on display and the hall decorated in the theme colours. Old photo albums also came out to show some of our history. The meal was a great success with lots of options for our main and dessert courses. Thanks to all. Dancing started at 7pm with Matthew calling to suit different levels from brand new beginners up to Plus learners. It was fantastic to see everyone dressed up to match our colour theme. Some had made their outfits especially for this night. Black came from the date being a Friday the 13th with Green added as a colour from or Cane Country Squares logo. It was lovely to see the entire Mills family dressed in matching outfits. 'Dolly', last seen at our Christmas dance, also made an appearance dressed in black and green. There was a few extra treats for a quick supper break to go with our club birthday cake. Thanks go ...

On Saturday 29th of February twelve ladies and two guys met to look at skirt designs and patterns or a bit of socialising. We discussed fabric types and costs and the need to overlock or zigzag stitch some types more than others to stop cut edges fraying. Current convention dress codes, the changes in traditional dress and expectations of what is most commonly worn today became an interesting discussion. I have attached the current National Dress Code as of April 2017 for those that want to read it. It is interesting to note it doesn’t state a requirement for a petticoat (just discrete underwear). This will suit new dancers that are yet to buy one or prefer a plain slip to the extra ruffles of the petticoats that started trending in the 50s. The other interesting point is closed toe shoes are not mentioned, although this has been a long standing expectation or tradition for ladies. I admit it is safer to wear closed toe shoes. It is not uncommon to clip your own or others fe...