Tiki tour day 6

We have spent the day at Cowra today, I spent quite a lot of time in the Westpac trying to sort a problem with our bank cards, two visits later all was well. So we headed for the Info centre

Oops first visit the quilt shop!

Statue on the main street

Now the rose garden.

We followed am Ad Lab that took us to the old watch tower where the POW camp used to be

We then went to find the painted water towers

We went to the Japanese Gardens and rang the peace bell after

We had some company who only wanted bread and would not eat his greens!! 

We walked around the gardens, fed the fish and ducks

We spied a 🦎 on a big rock

Checked out the bonsai house

We had a look in the cultural centre, lots of beautiful ceramics and kimono

Went to the Japanese war cemetery 

The found the peace bell and rang it! Hope the peace vibes came your way! We are resting and having a cuppa now.heading further south tomorrow.

Happy stitching. 

Tiki tour day 5

Starting the journey back home today, we said goodbye to Baradine

Morning walk and I saw two kangaroos in the camp grounds

Miss Jules finished her quilt top

Lea has finished part of her quilt top, love the colours.

We drove to Dubbo and then on to Cowra, the sun was setting as we arrived.

A photo shared on What's App of the final few at Baradine.

We have had dinner and a bit of a relax and now it is bed time. Tomorrow we have a craft shop, a quilt shop and the Japanese Gardens to explore and Iifht even put the car thru the car wash , it has a splatter of cow poo from following a truck.

Joys of travel in Aus!!

Happy stitching. 

Scrub Stitch'ng

Another retreat has safly come to an end, we had dress up night and swap and more sewing!

Deana, Sharymane and me

Christine, Drana  Sharymane and me.

We are outside 'cos we were heading for our outside group photo

Here we all are

Friday afternoon show and tell , this might be a Janice quilt

Another two quilts from Janice 

Another beautiful Janice quilt

Another Hanice quilt, made from a fabric book panel

Guess what? Another Janice quilt, I plan to make this one day...🤭

Last one from Janice  a lovely hexie number.

Stephanie's beautiful mountains and volcano quilt 

Miranda made this quilt 2 years ago for one of her sons, we figured out the elephant using foundation paper piecing. Not bad for her second quilt.

Di made this amazing quilt

Beautiful toys made by Christine, Sharymane and Kylie.

Gnomes by Sharmayne

Loved this one 

our goodies bag

Sunset, well I think i missed the best of it

Then it was Friday evening dress up night, the Theme was favourite book character 

The mother from The Dressmaker chatting to the Queen of Hearts and Miss Marple.

Not sure of the character on the left and Briget Jones 

A whole group of Where's Wally's.. ......these are the lovely ladies from Utah, Evelyn, Deana, Lori and Phyllis. 

The Gruffalo,  with the Dilly's. (Character's in the books by Dilly Court)

Noddy and the Gruffalo,  will fix photo at home...

Ursula hugging the Wally's

One of the Bridgerton characters Lady Danbury. How good is her dress, she made it herself.

The spider swallowing Lady (Jo) and Ursula

I will stop here as this is super photo heavy.

Happy stitching.