Monday

Today I was over at the Bellarine Quilters sit and sew day and I forgot to take my camera!!! How could I do that??? There was some amazing show and tell and I can't share it sadly! It was good to catch up with the ladies there.
Some sewing has been happening here

I have been adding a border to the clamshells, I have three to go on one side and then across the bottom...I think it needs a good iron!!

the tomatoes needed picking today, I for a kilo and a half...

and despite the netting the birds have eaten most of these plums, this is my share!! The snow peas are still producing a few now and then, they are so fresh and crunchy.

I am off now to prep some tomatoes for chutney.

Happy sewing.

Playing catch up once again

I have a good few days with Eve,we did all the messages that needed to be done, had a binge session on watching Broadchurch series 2, The Lavender Ladies, The Lady in the Van and a little bit of Longmire. Some knitting and stitching did get done although I haven'y take a photo of that as yet.

Yesterday was Bloggers catch up and sit and sew day..our swap was a bag..

Ann with  her bag from Lyn...a beautiful sewing bag

Barb with her great bag..perfect for her up coming trip overseas

this is the bag I received from Barb, beautiful stitchery and full of goodies

Wendy opening her many gifts, the bag she received was on the table in front of her

Colleen with the bag I made

doesn't she make a wonderful model!!

Shez with her great sausage dog bag

Lyn with her beautiful bag..love the stitchery

and here they are all together...a wonderful collection.

Saturday night I stayed at the Perry house and this morning we went for a wander around the garden

loved this cobwebby post, but I was happy not to see any spiders!!

one of Tracee's puppies,  she was interested in my breakfast!!

beautiful clematis in flower 

great seat for a morning coffee, it is wonderful to see the trees the Perry's have planted getting bigger, they have made huge improvements to the bare block they started with.

the magnolia was starting to flower, it had a beautiful perfume

The other puppy who kept us company on our garden wander. We did get a little sewing done....

I came back home in the afternoon, Geelong was very busy there was something on down at the waterfront and the traffic was very busy.

I understand fish and chips are on the menu tonight as it is hubbies "cooking night" !! 

Happy sewing.

Australia Day Swap

This year I joined in the Australia Day Swap organised by Anthea.  Here is what Anthea said

Let's show our love of our great country & have a good fun Aussie themed swap!

Here's the deal:

FIVE items are chosen & sent to your partner. They each must start with one letter from the word AUSTRALIA & at least one item must bear the Australian flag.

My partner, Lyn, was very generous

I got a parcel for each letter of the word Australia, beautifully wrapped and with stickers

and Inside there was

A - Australian key fob, U - utensil (a melon baller), S - snakes ( Lyn must know something as I LOVE these!!), T - teatowel with a koala and a thimble, R - ruler and red rick rack, A - Australian note pad, L - light (a usb plug in light), I - Indigenous animal coin purse (so cute) and A - Australian bottle cooler!! Thank you so much Lyn, this was a joy to open. This swap even impressed my 27 year old son!! Impressive huh!!! Lol!! I don't know if Lyn has a blog, but I will find out. 

You can go over to Anthea's blog and see what the other swappers sent and received.

I wrapped most of mine before I remembered to take a photo

a little dilly bag in Australian designed fabric, some Australian fabric pieces and fun glasses,

I will get some other photos when Kaylee does her blog post.

Happy Australia Day.

Shared photos from Kaylee

Thank you Kaylee for being a great sport!!

and the goodies I sent to Kaylee.

Bye Bye Eddie

Eddie has had his back surgery,

watched some tele

he even had the power button (heavily contested in this house!!)

and now he has gone to his new home.

Yesterday afternoon was spent at the beach

Hard work but someone had to do it!! lol!!

Today I have been off learning to paint on fabric

One of the Bellarine Quilter ladies helped me in her studio...I think I even learned something!!

Back at home hubby decided to paint the tram that goes with the conductor

Looks pretty good, much better than I could do!! Next week I have to get on to quilting and then embellishing and mounting it on a 20 x16 canvas for a display in Geelong later in the year. Exciting!!

I have tried to do some quilting on my Christmas Row by Row

The reindeer are done

now I am trying small stipple..it is hard work!!! Now I need to take a break for dinner cooking!

I am off to visit a friend over the other side of Melbourne tomorrow, so also need to pack some clothes and sewing things.

Happy sewing.

Rainbow scrap challenge

Today I am linking up over at Soscrappy where everyone is showing their purple scrappy creations

I have decided to make cotton reel blocks and then decide what to do with them at the end of the year. ...this months colour is purple. 

Over at Soscrappy you can see all the other amazing creations.

Happy sewing.

Meet Eddie

Today I have spent  all day creating Eddie. Preparing the pattern, cutting out, and sewing and stuffing...then more sewing...

Ready to sew

The supervisor is in place and snoring 

I managed with most of the sewing until it came to putting the bottom piece on , that was a slow and tricky job...it took me 4 attempts to get the legs attached properly, the fabric kept sliding and the seam was too narrow and when I turned it around the wrong way the tops of the legs kept popping out!! 

Finally it is all together, now the stuffing. I had made a bag and filled it with beans to make the teddy a bit heavier - he is destined to be a comfort teddy where son#1 works.

Meet Eddie!!! Just needs some surgical help on his back seam and he is all done.

This pattern comes from Shiny happy world there are many wonderful patterns over there, well worth a look. Some of the childrens quilts are wonderful.

Time for some dinner I think.

Happy sewing.

Happy mail

This has been a week for happy mail,

My yearly print of my blog turned up in the mail, Jan thru June from my blof and July thru December for another persons blog....lovely but not what I ordered!!! Two emails to the blog 2 print people but no reply so far,  maybe I just send this on to the correct owner in Canada! !

I did get something else in the mail

Jo kindlynsent me this wasgij, I love these so am keen to get it started.

Also other good news

I finished this block, Nativity Star....yay!!!!!  I am happy with this one!!!

Off to do some more sewing.

Happy days.

Yesterday and today

The days are zipping by here...I have some good books from the library and they seem to soak up a lot of time somehow!! I have joined along with other bloggers to try and use scraps and yesterday I decided to try and make cotton reel blocks, straight forward I thought, but no, my reel ends came out the wrong way

And had to be unpicked and started again

The centres went together well, this months colour as you can see is purple.

I have now finished 5, but will post them on Saturday for the link up.

I got together another quarter of the foundation pieced block, once again the top corner is short, but hopefully within the seam line.

Today there were more tomatoes to gather so I got some chutney together, this smells so good as it is cooking, I hope it tastes ok!!

All ready for a label.

The tablet has decided this is a sideways photo for some reason, this ismas far as I have managed to get on the next lot of foundation piecing today. Hopefully the block will be done tomorrow.

We had amazing sky's when the Supervisor and I went for a walk yesterday

Happy sewing.

Monday

sees the start of meetings at the Bellarine Quilters and there was a good turn out today, there was a show and tell

I don't know whoes quilt this is but there is to be a class making the window sections at Bellarine next Saturday

this is a quilt made by Rae, with panels and she tried out different quilting in each square..it looks fantastic.

Di basted this quilt in the morning, it was from a class she did when living in NZ

Sue made these tables covers for her grand kids to take to school..love the fabrics!

I did a few more leaves and now have moved on to a flower, I think I have four flowers and one bird to go!!

Yesterday hubby and I decided to go for a walk in the afternoon, so we drove, in a round about way (yep we did a tiki tour as I got lost!!) to Point Impossible, just past Breamlea.

From there we followed a road

not very interesting, and came out on another road, then we turned left and went to a beach, as we could not find the walking trail we were supposed to be following. It turned out the beach was a nudist beach, so hubby said keep your head down and do not stare!!! Lol!! So I did and we walked to Torquay 

Glimpse of the sea

we walked from WAY past that headland you can see in the distance

we got an ice cream at Torquay at the surf club and then headed back...walking on the sand is not easy, I had some sore muscles when we got back to the car and two blistered toes! The biggest challenge was walking back along the nudist beach for a short way and not looking at two men going for a stroll along the beach in nothing but their hats!! I hope they had sun screen on!!

I am off to do some sewing, or maybe cutting for sewing before getting dinner.

Happy sewing.