Catching up yet again

 Time gets away on me, it does not help that I have been doing lots of reading! 😀

the flower and horse quilt and the ferret, horse, pig and dogs quilt have gone to their new home, photos to come.

the pelicans are still around down near the boat launching ramp

Shane came for an afternoon and we walked the dogs

another day recently I came across Adam and Beth when I was walking Hank, so we walked together

another Anthology block has been made

I saw and enjoyed this movie

and then  had lunch looking over the bay, the clouds were amazing

the last two days I hve been making blocks for the bookcase quilt which has been sadly neglected

a vase and flower

a messy photo but the quilt so far, I was busy sewing away last night and realised I had made a mistake and forgot to put in the brown for the shelf, so some unsewing needs to be done today.

The vest for Finn is coming along slowly, love this wool Raewyn gave me, just the arm bands to go and then sewing up.

This mess is another heap of knitted squares waiting to be made into a KOGO blanket - if I keep it in sight i.e. on the chair next to me, maybe it will get done!!

the two quilts promised earlier, it had taken me ages to find them on the phone.

That is enough for me for now

Happy stitching.

Gisborne days 3 and 4

Back home again now, binding the finished quilts and catching up with the family

Beth and Finn

Finn is nearly 4 months old now

I have had a few walks along the beach and today a bike ride

it has been beautiful weather today

back at the retreat Sue sewed the top of her quilt together and out on the first border

Carleens blocks

Maxine's quilt top, sadly we found a woops so it has gone home for some unsewing

Maria made great progress on this quilt top, the blocks look great on point

Judy was using up left over fabric in half square triangles and some of Kate's fabric for this quilt top

Maxines new quilt start

I put together some equilateral triangles blocks,  the blocks are a challenge at the Bellarine quilters

On the way home Carleen and I stopped to do an Adventure Lab in Bacchus Marsh

Love these trees

Beautiful autumn colours 

I am off to do another binding now

Happy stitching. 

Gisborne retreat Day 1 and 2

Monday saw Carleen and I heading for Gisborne, we dropped off 4 quilts at SJOG for the Oncology ward  and then headed off to Bacchus Marsh where we got last minute groceries and then came to Gisborne.

I have been quilting more Oncology quilts

this one is quilted and bound 

this one is quilted.

I am just beginning on the third one.

Carleen's beautiful block

Maxine block

today became 2 blocks 

with more appearing

Maria is working on green blocks still using strips we had last October 

another green quilt under development

Judy was given these blocks and has finished up the last few blocks and is not joining them together

Judy joined other orphan blocks were joined yesterday and will get borders at home.

Sue is joining these blocks together, it has taken some renewing as the vlocks were made on a different machine and the quarter inch seams are different. It will be stunning when it is done.

Maria and I attempted to go for a walk this morning

the trees are such beautiful autumn colours

love this painting on the back of the supermarket.

We didn't walk far as a rain shower was coming, so visited the shopping centre, then an op shop and back to sew.

More quilting to be done before dinner now.

Happy stitching.

FNWF

I sat in the sewing room and cut out the stamped cropped diamonds.

I am happy I managed to cut all I had stamped, took me the best part of 3 hours!!

one label was also sewn on 😁

Today I have been for a walk with Adam and Finn

was a little wet and cold

but there was time for photos  then we had to move otherwise Finn wakes up!!

safe from the rain

this was Thursday when we last went for a walk.

the dogs are visiting again this afternoon.

You can see what the other Friday nighters created over at Cheryll's blog, link on the last post.

Happy stitching.

Purchases from Scrub Stitching and FNWF

 Here it is the start of May already, which means tonight is Friday Night with Friends hosted by Cheryll. You can sign up over at her blog and join in tonight.

This week I put together the remaining Australian animals blocks and made a quilt top for Finn, I need to get something soft for the backing.

Next week I am going on retreat to Gisborne, so I have sandwiched the quilt below I was given to finish off for Oncology

the quilt below I made

and another I was given to finish off.

I also got out the knitted blocks Jenny had started to sew together when she was here and got the blanket all sewn together, now I need to crochet a border around the edge and it will be ready for KOGO, they are in need of blankets this time of the year, so I need to get the other two bags of squares I have here sewn together too.

I bought some fabric when I was away

I couldn't leave these panels in the shop, Raewyn and I stopped at the Crafters Cottage in Coonabarabran on out way to Baradine. These panels were too nice to leave behind!

Driving through Corowa Raewyn spotted a quilt shop, so we parked and went to have a look

I had to take this and the panel below home, they are perfect for Aussie Hero quilts

and this panel will make a wonderful advent calendar for Finn

and this fabric is for a project I have in the back of my mind 😉

and I found this lovely key ring in with my bag of goodies. There was so much to look at in this shop, it made a wonderful break from driving.

I received this great bag of strips from Marina, so soon they will be stamped and cut up for the cropped diamonds quilt top

I have this pile to cut waiting attention, so I had better be off and get them done.

Happy stitching.