Final day

at Gisborne retreat lots was finished up

Christine finished a scrappy top

I finished the kit quilt, pretty happy with this one

The lovely Ann finished her Peas in a Pod quilt top

Without the maker 😁

Judy finished this great quilt top, great colours in this one.

I finished a Christmas strip cot quilt,  I did not plan to make this, Abbe brought over a big bag of Christmas fabric,  and flannelette and an idea formed.......

The back, lovely soft fabric.

I am sure there were other finishes too but I didn't get photos.

Back home now and getting ready for the arrival of Jenny on Sunday.

Happy stitching.

Gisborne retreat

Very happy to have some finishes today, lots of beautiful quilts were under production 

Maria's and Maxines blocks 

Anne's Peas in a Pod blocks and my kit and baby blocks

Afternoon walk round the block

These beautiful roses are in the garden here

Judy finished her last strip quilt top, love the colours

Christine is working on a scrap quilt

Carleen is doing another two rows for her top

More of Maxines quilt top

Judy has started another quilt

Dinner was an amazing baked potato, followed by

Pavlova, my favourite!! 

One more border and this one is done , yay!! 

We have watched a DVD tonight called Film Stars don't die in Liverpool, was quite good. 

I am off for a cuppa and bed.

Happy stitching. 

Slow start

for me today but I am happy with what I have done, it took me nearly all day to sew 16 blocks together, lots on unsewing took place and getting them in the right place took ages too.

This was a kit from the Eltham quilt shop, very happy to have it finished. I made the blocks at Baradine and now it is a finished top 😄

I also have finished a cheater quilt top

Fabric from Jemimas Creative quilting in Craigeburn, Raewyn and I xalled in ther on our way to the airport, centre is cheater fabric, the borders left over backing fabric.   Very happy with that one.

I have also been given this pile of fabric that was found in the ugly box here on retreat. I think they could be chopped up sarongs from Indonesia. I am still deciding what to do or even if I want to take them home.

Abbey came over this afternoon with a big bag of Christmas fabric so I am thinking on something to do with some of that.

Had two walks today but no photos.

Happy stitching.

Gisborne

Retreat has started, this afternoon has been a busy stitching one

I have a table runner quilted and the binding is on ready to be hand sewn down.

I have the blocks up for the next quilt

Still deciding if they need to be moved around. 

I had a  walk late this afternoon, the clouds were interesting 

We had some heavy showers thus afternoon ,I just got my walk in before it rained again.

Now I am sewing the binding onto the I Spy quilt

Back to some sewing for me.

Happy stitching 

Since

Returning home life has been busy, appointments for hubby and myself,  grass to cut, gardens to weed, house to clean, all that stuff, plus tone to be spent with this young man 

Who has discovered what you can do with his Grandmothers phone!! 

I have finished one of the Christmas quilts to go to the special care nursery at SJOG 

I have sewn together one of the charm packs I found at the Albury (I think) quilt shop Raewyn will correct me if I have the wrong place 😉 plus some batik fabric

It looked a bit bland so I added a purple border and then used up the rest of the batiks

One patchy quilt top done.  Happy the top is sewn together and the fabric hasn't taken up residence on the fabric shelves! 

We have had some lovely days this last week

We had some visitors to the front deck one day recently 

This one let me hand feed it for a little while , it enjoyed the seed cereal topper.

I am off to Gisborne next week  for a retreat  8 of us to sew up a storm!! 

Happy stitching

Tiki tour day 9- final day

Today we started out in Albury, visited a quilt shop

Some retail therapy was done there, was an amazing shop

Then we walked along the street

And found a shop with Angel wings in the window.

We then walked to Lincraft and had a look there.

Into the car and headed for 

Ned Kelly country,  we got a stamp at the Information centre

From there we headed for Benella, but I somehow managed to put the wrong info in the google maps and we were driving down country dirt roads

And we ended up in Lurg!!!

There is NOTHING at Lurge!! How we ended up coming here I have no idea! Luckily we were not too far from Benalla.....🤪 🙄😬

Another stamp at the info centre, we were told about a church at Goorambat in amongst the painted silos, it was only 15 mins away so off we went and it was so worth it.

This is at the far end of the church and so beautiful.

Outside the church.

From there we were going to head to Euroa but the Info centre was closed so we headed straight for Craigeburn north of Tullamarine and found another quilt shop just before she closed. More retail therapy happened there 🤭

On the way to the airport we saw the sun going down

We made it to the hotel and are checked in, Raewyn is packing her bags before we head downstairs for dinner

Tomorrow I drive off home.

Happy stitching.