Today

has been a busy day, lots of emails to catch up on, still sorting Mums stuff, had to get the St Johns emergency alarm payments refunded and also trying to stop a direct payment to another charity...not easy from over here. We had a trip into Geelong this afternoon and the day was nearly over!!! I did get a little sewing done...now dinner is late...but such is life!!

I was given these goodies by Jenny when we were in NZ, a beautiful tin and some fat quarters.

and when we got home these gifts were in the mail from Donna, lovely NZ themed fat quarters and a notebook with a pukeko.....Christmas continues on! Yay!!

I took the cover off this diary bought on special to make a junk journal, now I have decided to make a cover as I want to use the diary!! Contrary me!!

but inbetween while waiting for glue to dry I did a little more stitching on the fabric from the class I did thru Guild with Caroline Sharkey

Also from Donna was a cute elf, love that hat!!!

the family is growing!!

here is the diary once I had glued on wadding and covered it with fabric, the spine edges are a bit wonky but I am happy with it.

Inside front cover

inside back cover.

Happy sewing.

Catch up 2

The last two days have been at the Caroline Sharkey class, Freedom and Nature Scapes.

lots of little pieces of fabric, wool, sequins and some sparkly bits

the girls working away

 now there are angelina fibres

the girls are hard at work

The piece has been covered with wash away stabiliser and quilted over with tiny quilting

once that is washed out and dried it goes on the background fabric and we start adding other bits, this is Tracee's work

and Margaret's.

Other class peoples work

Love the colours in Sue's piece

this is Shirleys

here is where I was at the end of the day, butterflies and bees and ferns appliqued on...homework is all the free motion stitching to fill the empty spaces.

one happy student and teacher

and the class at the end of the day.

it was a wonderful class and Caroline is a great teacher.

We had two days of much learning and playing with fabric. Love how everyone has created something different.

Happy sewing.

Catch up 1

Life has been a bit hectic for the last week, this afternoon is catch up time!
I took the Supervisor for a walk the other day, we had some rain and the corellas were out playing on the power lines

Off we go

these corellas were swinging around in circles having a wonderful time!

The Supervisor had a paddle!

I did some gardening when we got home and came in looking like a beetroot!!

Need to work on the selfie photo!!

Saturday was Guild day and we were shown some of the quilts that members have made for the Children's Hospital

sorry for the photo quality, I had to get between peoples heads!

I like this scrappy one

this is cute

love the colours on this one

this is one of three quilts a Guild member gave Judy, the lady on the left. The owner had fallen out of love with it, so Judy cut it up and remade it into three quilts for the hospital. Looks great.

This was one of two blankets made by Margaret's sister Jenny in WA. They were both beautifully made and I am sure will be loved.

Our speaker for the meeting was Caroline Sharkey,. one busy talented lady!

This is one of her mini quilts, lots of layers of fabric and thread...

and another, there were many quilts to look at and ooh and aah over!!

this is fabric she us experimenting with, taking photos of small parts of her quilts and having them reproduced ...they looked amazing.

These very luck ladies won the special raffle prizes, a wall hanging of Byron Lighthouse and framed textile art.

You can see the crowd wanting a close look at Caroline's quilts after the talk.

Tomorrow (which actually was yesterday) I am off to do a workshop with Caroline , looking forward to that.

Happy sewing.