Photos I forgot

After doing the Scrub Stitching posts I was scrolling thru photos on my phone and found some more I would like to have on the blog...love the memories and thoughts they bring back.

Cat in the Hat quilt top finished, thank you Jo for your help and encouragement!!

Chooky had a 6am zoom session for an hour  I was up late, no surprise there and found Jenny outside with the sun coming up thru the cypress trees

some Aussie ladies, Kiwi ladies , Canadian ladies and American ladies - I hope that was right!

A Cat in the Hat pillowcase to go with the quilt, again thank you Jo for your guidance and help, not much fabric left over now!

Melinda's Elmer elephant  which will be the centre of a quilt for her son.  Made with foundation paper piecing, first time for Melinda and included curved seams, she is amazing!

Sunday morning sewing

I saw this wee frog late Saturday night, it was very shy,  but the next one I saw posed happily

First time I have seen a green tree frog in the wild  I was quietly excited!!☺

I think that is all now, I had better get sorted and de idea what to do today, it has been raining gently for most of the night and is still raining. Perfect weather for sewing and Quilting.

Scrub Stitching Sunday and goodbye

It is the last day and always hard to say goodbye to the ladies you have spent time with. Some ladies had to leave early as they had a long drive home, we also heard there was 53ml rain drop out in the direction Chooky lived,  so some concern whether people would get home or not.

These ladies were around for the final photo

our on the steps at the showgrounds.

Today was pack up day, my machine was in the car so some hand stitching was done, hubby was ready to go by mid morning, so we headed off to Coonabarrabran.

We stopped for a coffee stop and driver change over, I grabbed the opportunity to get a photo of the clock tower and hotel.

We stayed in Parks over night,  no photos as I didn't do anything other than a bit of hand stitching

Some amazing cloud the next day

The second night we stayed in Tocumwal on the Murray River, this cod was down beside the river.

I had a ride along a path on the river bank, lots of people camping on the other side

Off I go, actually the path only went to the old bridge, not long but was good to have  look around.

Two WW2 guns, a memorial and a pine tree grown from a seed taken from lone Pine on the Gallipoli Peninsular.

The old bridge

And the view from the old bridge with some fishermen heading home up the river.

We got home the next day to find the renovations are well and truly under way

A round trip of 2260km!

Kitchen gone! And so it starts.

Happy stitching.

Scrub stitching on Saturday

 I am finally back  I managed to sign myself out of google and so couldn't do a post or comment on blogs, I have searched thru packed boxes and drawers under beds and found my passwords book, now we can get back to business. 

Saturday was a busy sewing day for the girls

Busy bees sewing away

Jo was challenged to make use of the cut off squares from her twister quilt, so she made a mini twister, that she then made into a table mat with a zipper part for cutlery. This was taken part way through.

This is Janice's twister quilt top, Saturday evening we had a special dinner, the theme was red.

Ronnie and Annette our lovely caterers

Jo, me, Chooky and Janice.

Jo having fun!

The ladies at the dinner table, lots of red here.

Chooky and  rentals folding serviettes for the table - this photo has jumped out of order.

After dinner it was show and tell time, there were so many beautiful things to see, here are a few

Enthralled audience

So many beautiful quilts.

A project in progress 

Beautiful animals made on an embroidery machine.

And a personalised book case quilt.

Last years project, Janice made the cushion as in the pattern, Brenda made a bag and I put the epp on the back of a shirt.

And finally the group photo that evening, minus Jenny who wasn't feeling good.

Are you still awake? I think that is enough for this post, going home starts in the morning.

If you pop over to  Janice's blog you can see  more show and tell a who made them.

Happy stitching.