Woo Hoo! A finish!!

The  "Collingwood" quilt is finished, labelled and on it's way! I had  to squash it into the box, I thought putting the fluffy throw on the back was a good idea until it came time to fold and pack and boy was it a squash to get it into the box!! The air got a little blue around here!!

here is the back of the quilt

and the front.

Oops, I have done something wrong with this photo but never mind, this is the laundry bag I made for the same service man, apparently the washing is put in the bag, the top tied and the whole lot goes in the washing machine and then the dryer and then back to the person who owns it. The normal bags are green, blue or brown (from memory) so imagine trying to find your washing in a whole heap of the same colour bags!! This is a lot easier to find and much more personal. There are a heap more pictures at the Aussie Hero Quilts and laundry bags blog to have a look at. Some people have made amazing bags!

And my poppies are off in the post to 5000 poppies today a little contribution to their large project! 

and now I am off to fix up these little bits of fabric that have ended up on the wrong side of the raggy seams quilt,

little suckers were a bit hard to control!! Lol!!

Happy sewing!

52 word photo challenge

This week, week 6, the word is flow...I thought about water, rivers, creeks, then ran out of time to go and find one.  I was in the garden last evening working away and thinking about the word flow, originally I wanted to do something about go with the flow, but that didn't work out, then I thought of ebb and flow, really more to do with the sea, then money popped in to my brain, that ebbs and flows into my wallet, at the moment it is mainly an out flow...hence this picture!!

Hee Hee!!

You can see the other FLOW photos over at Alsha's Place.

Busy afternoon

I have been busy sewing a raggy seams quilt, it came in a precut pack and I thought would have gone together really easily, mostly it did but the little cut edges had a mind of their own and didn't always go in the direction I wanted them to!

One raggy seams quilt, still have a couple of bloopers to fix underneath.

We had a couple of early morning visitors, I had to go out and tell them off as they were chewing on the window frames and tapping on the windows....

I told them the restaurant was closed!

A lovely package arrived this morning from the lovely Barb from  here , I love these buttons and had to get some after I had given in to temptation and bought the magazine below!!

Yum, yum!!

So now something else to add to my do to list!!

Love the reindeer,

and the pre printed label has arrived to put on the Collingwood quilt so will get to that tonight. Well I had better get back to fixing the Raggy seams quilt,

Happy Sewing!

Mill Rosie friends

Yesterday was meet up day at Mill Rose cottage - a gathering of many friends - lots of chatting, looking at work, fabric, patterns, lovely lunch and wonderful people to catch up with.

Barb, Marina, Elyte, Mel and Kim

Tracee with her lovely swap made by the lovely  Elyte, 

Barb with her swap from the amazing Shez

Yep, the paparazzi were in attendance again - actually it's the best time to get a photo of nearly everyone!! Lol!!

Elyte with her swap - I forgot to say this time the swap was simply Red, so could be anything,

Marina, Kim, Sharon, Ann, something serious was happening here!!

Cheryl and Rosalie with her amazing swap, a basket full of goodies,

Swap made by Sharon,

Lyn with her swap a table runner made by Christine,

Cheryl with her swap made by Rosalie,

Christine with her swap made by Marg, it had beautiful words embroidered but they don't show in this photo,

Marg with her swap, hearts made by me!

Shez with her swap, a beautiful sewing caddy (I hope that is the right thing to say) made by Kim,

Robyn, working on her tiny blocks, all hand stitched!

And here are all the Red swaps on display, there are many talented women in this group!

and this is Hunny Bun made by Tracee, she is so clever, the eyes on this bunny are just beautiful!

Marina telling us about the making of her Australia Day quilt! Just beautiful! Love the batiks!

Beautiful bag made by the talented Tracee,

Lyn with her show and tell,

and Tracee with Hunny Bun

and Tracee's Dream quilt, made in the 1600 style with a Bali Pop, then added the birds,

AND Tracee had finished her Perry's Place Quilt, it is very long, there are another couple of rows of animals that are not in the photo, there is so much work in this quilt, Tracee has done an amazing job.

Kim's show and tell, beautiful fabrics and pattern,  I had some other photos but think that is probably enough for this time! We had a great day!

Happy sewing!

Mill Rose Gathering

Tomorrow is the day when we gather at Ballan at  Mill Rose for get together day.
The Blankets of Love are finished and ready to go...this time Shez is travelling to see the wonderful Cheryll soon so I am hoping she can take the blankets with her.  And, my bag is packed and I'm ready to go!! ( No I am not  breaking into song!!) Lol!!

Large Blankets of Love, 24inches,

Two at 12 inches and two at 8inches, 

All necessary goodies gathered, 

Mill Rose here we come!!

Happy days!

52 word photo challenge

Week 5 of the photo challenge and the word is Open. The first thing that came to mind was a book, an open book is very inviting to me, I can't walk past it, and there I manage to lose hours!

You can pop over to Alsha's Space to see the other open photos for this week.

Have a good one!

Nearly a finish

I Have been working on the Collingwood quilt this weekend, I have done the quilting, actually I found that quite hard wrangling the fabric through the machine...anyway I got it done, laid out the quilt on the dining table, measured it up for the binding, twice and then a third time, only to discover I had made it too long!! Ahhhh!!!! The quilts for  Aussie Hero Quilts  have to be a certain size! Woops!! So the top and bottom are going  to be chopped off!! Problem solved!!

Pinned and ready to go!

Working on the quilting, I cannot believe how much fluff this black fabric picks up, every time it brushes on the wadding it comes away with white fluff!!

It is worse than dog hair and to be honest there is probably dog hair on here too!! Lol!

Moving down to the 'under the flag' area.

Done and ready to bind......but it is too long,

now it isn't, it has been chopped!!!!

Binding on and ready to hand sew on to the back and then I begin the mammoth task of getting all the fluff off!

And of course the supervisor is still on the job!

Happy sewing!