Sunday, April 19, 2026

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.












Saturday, April 18, 2026

Scrub Stitchin'

Lots of sewing and chatting and eating has been happening with a walk in the morning before it gets too hot, yesterday was 30 deg C and today looks like it will be the same.
Late the first evening, the room had emptied out.
Kylie's supplies for unpicking (I have visited already😁)
Conversation happening Chooky  Betty and the girls from the US
Evelyn very bravely tried Vegemite
No, not a happy taster
Photo for proof!!
Chooky, Phyllis and Lori
Lori, Evelyn, Jo, Phyllis and Janice.
Phyllis  me, Deana
Jenny finished her quilt top
Deana finished her last foundation paper pieced block for the evening.
Fuzzy morning walk photo, cockatoos and galah
No idea what this is but I liked the colour
Walking view at the camp.
Back to sewing the hexies now.
Happy stitching.