Heading home

We headed home Monday late morning and stopped at Kilcunda to have a walk along the rail trail and look for caches, it was a beautiful morning, no wind to speak of.

Views from the rail trail.

I was  under the trestle bridge looking for a cache, was one of the few I found 

Back at Sorrento the ferry was coming in, we were home by about 4.30. I have sewn on some more hexies but no photo yet.

Off swimming this morning. 

Happy stitching.

Weekend away

We have been at Harmers Haven for the weekend visiting family,  they have had a large amount of rain here do plans I had for geocaching have been put on hold as in some places there is too much water and muddy ground.  I should have brought my gumboots! 

On the way here we stopped briefly at Kilcunda 

the Ocean was rolling in and it was pretty windy.

we found evidence if wombats while looking for caches

the wind farm was operating in the distance 

I had a look at Williamson's beach, fishing was happening, this young boy had just caught a fish, he was so excited 

from here I went to Wreck Beach, a ship went onto the rocks here back in the 1800's, luckily everyone survived

I looked in the sandhills fir a cache here for ages but could not find it! 🙄!

one cache I did manage to find! 

I had a chat to the animals here for a while,  had my dog fix

Basil thought he was in trouble because I asked him to sit and stay! I got to meet the cat

She usually lives in the big shed, she has to keep rodent population down!

A little more stitching happened late afternoon and evening. 

I am off to start the day, we are heading home today but are stopping at Kilcunda to try and find a few caches on the rail trail and to look at the trestle bridge.

Happy trails.

Back to reality

 Normal life has resumed after all the excitement of a special birthday.

Catching up, well blogger has put these in back to front but that is ok,

Ingrid gave me this beautiful little doll yesterday, she has come from New Zealand, she has a beautiful dress and knitted cardy, crochet beret and a tiny teddy, she is so cute.

And this beautiful mini quilt, Broken Dishes pattern with Baptist fan quilting, how special is that?

I had an afternoon session last week making hexies for the Tea and Cake quilt when I should have been making an Anthology block, I completely forgot! I enjoyed the meditative action of gluing the hexies.

Blogger has this one upside down for some reason, these are the bigger blocks for Tea and Cake.

a new hexie block has been started for the Hexie Mystery Quilt

progress so far, I have just finished sewing on the brown and yellow pieces

In the week I started on an Aussie Hero quilt, the request was for black with a red border, included on the black was to be a tank, the riding sun, parachuting winds, poppies a person on a parachute, an armoured personnel carrier and anything relating to things being dropped out of planes with parachutes! Blocks all joined up.

One of the smaller feature fabric blocks for Tea and Toast

Star blocks for the Guild Mystery quilt. These are now joined on and awaiting another border.

I am off now to put some poppies onto the Aussie hero quilt.

Happy stitching.

Point Lonsdale

 We went back to Point Lonsdale and to visit Ingrid and Nick on Saturday night and had a wonderful roast dinner. Ingrid, Jasper and I had a walk down to the beach before dinner and just as the light was fading. The tide was high and crashing on the sea wall

Jasper and Ingrid had fun running on the beach

It was a beautiful calm, slightly chilly evening.

Jasper enjoying the sea breeze

we watched a huge container ship coming in the entrance and a couple of surfers in the waves

This wave caught me on the back of the legs and feet, I was too busy waiting for the big splash onto the wall! I forgot the old reminder about surf, always keep an eye on what is happening behind you!

there it goes.

Tourist on the sea wall path.

The guy in front did head out surfing, it mush have been freezing!

One happy quilt recipient! 

Jasper back at the house knew chicken was being served!

Old Time Kaleidoscope was on display

As was a canvas print we had made from a photo Shane took

Also this beautiful quilt was made by Jill, the colours are not showing well in the night time light.

We had a great evening, lots of chat and laughs and a few stitches sewn.

Happy stitching.

Secret Sewing and a special birthday

 A few weeks ago I was doing secret sewing and not able to show much, today I can reveal! The pattern I found on Instagram, designed by These Clever Hands, called Sew Me Happy. I had lots of fabric left over from the School Girl Sampler so though I would cut into them, because I know who loves them!

There were 4 blocks of two and a half inch squares (that was a lot of cutting!)

Four blocks of four and a half inch squares (slightly easier cutting)

Four blocks of small Hourglass blocks(mmm seam matching required)

and four blocks of larger Hourglass blocks ( happy me)

They made up into this quilt top and actually went together quite well, I tried very hard to not get two colours the same together, but a few snuck together while I was not watching!

I rushed the top over to Joan of Faraway Quilting, quietly as Joan was outside my five km limit for travel, we decided she was an essential service!! Then home to do the binding. A few evenings hand sewing in front of the tele and it was all done.

Ta dah the finished quilt. I am disappointed to say I have not got a photo of this quilt with it's recipient!! It was Ingrid's special birthday last Friday and after a stressful few weeks of can they come, can't they come, do we order things or do we not, Ingrid and Nick were able to come to Point Lonsdale and we could get together.

I told a fib I have a fuzzy photo!!!

Friday we met at Merne at Lighthouse in Drysdale for lunch, I didn't take many food photos, we had 11 courses of the most amazing food, I was very lucky as everything was fine for me to eat, sometimes I got my own special plate!! This is the desert the others had to share, we sang Happy Birthday, the other restaurant goers joined in, wonderful people.

Back at Point Lonsdale Ingrid was banned to upstairs while we set up the table with

cakes and balloons and presents

poppers, bubbles 

This was the lantern cake, it had a fake candle inside that changed colours and shone light thru the sides of the sugar glass panes

The cake was not on a terrible lean, it is my photography!! The sugar glass panes are some of Ingrid's favourite quilting blocks. This was to be a keeper cake but turned out too big to go under the dome Ingrid had.

This was the eating cake decorated with a Betsy Chutchian quilt design that Ingrid is making.

Ingrid was hopeful her besty Kim could come over from Tasmania, but with the virus restrictions that proved impossible sadly. Still Kim is named on the cake, Nick thought a 101st birthday message would be appropriate! (He likes living dangerously!)

Nick and Ingrid with her quilting cake.

I also gave Ingrid the Old Time Kaleidoscope quilt top for her birthday, can't wait to see how it is quilted.

I think that is probable enough for now, are you still awake?

More tomorrow.

Happy stitching.