Showing posts with label Ballan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ballan. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2019

Back on the air. super photo heavy

I have had a wonderful few days at a quilting retreat in Daylesford. It was VERY cold most of the time, Daylesford is much higher than we are here on the coast so the temp is a good 5 or 6 deg lower.
On the way to Daylesford we stopped at Ballan to look for a cache, but we ended up exploring the op shop. Everything in the town had been yarn bombed, including this display outside the pub.

this beautiful old building was originally a tea house

the Werribee River was very high

we stopped to have a look at Sailors Falls, the water coming over was amazing.

One of the locals out the kitchen window.


My first efforts, all cut out before the retreat, went together the first afternoon and evening.

busy ladies.

Three of us had an outing to Trentham Falls, partly to see the volume of water, I have not seen this much water at the falls before, and partly to do a geocache!

The photo is very dark but this shop had a beautiful fabric hanging under the verandah.

A finish for Sue on Thursday.


More of the locals on Thursday,  Mum and bub  feeding at the same time
I am listening even though I might not be looking!

Mum and bub

She has such a huge pouch, bubs tail seems to be hanging out too!!


I think these were wallabies rather than kangaroos  but I am not certain.


Carleen has a finish.

I put my next effort onto the design wall, all the half square triangles were prepared at home.

Judy had a finish, a beautiful quilt from left over blocks.

Thursday morning was 1 deg C when I surfaced, I had missed most of the frost!!

The cars were still icy though.

The kookaburra was looking for breakfast


I accidently got this photo of the lichen while trying to zoom in on the kookaburra!! 

Wednesday evening and Thursday morning I made 54 One Block Wednesday blocks , 

Margaret has a growing collection of dog blocks

How cute is this one with the glasses!!

Carleen was working on her wall hanging..love all the flowers!
Finished quit, slightly different to the pattern, but I am happy with it.
I had a great few days, back home now and caching up.
Happy stitching.


Saturday, December 8, 2018


We have had super hot days the last two days, so our summer bathing has commenced! Hubby took a photo for me, said the camera wasn't working but he was taking video not a photo the wally. The video does not work, but you get the idea!!
A strange creature emerging  from the sea!!! 

We thought there was an early weather change but it was not to be, 6 drops of rain and it disappeared!

Today I have been up to Ballan to a meet up of some of the Victorian sewers for Aussie Hero's. It was great to see photos of what people had made and to hear about AH events they had been to thru the year.

Lovely bunch of happy ladies!

Shirley showed us a quilt she is making for a challenge called Connections.
On the way home we stopped at the Old Ballan Cemetery

to find a geocache, and we did, waaaayy down the back under a prickly tree...I have the bloody scratch  to prove it!! There are not a lot of headstones left here, but he first was laid in 1850.

This year I got my act together and made some Christmas cards



Simple but I am happy with them. It is that time of day when hubby is making noises about dinner, so had better wander along.
I am pleased to say the cool change has come...was 30 deg C when we left Ballan this afternoon and 21 deg C when I got home! Relief!
Happy stitching.