Here I am once again!

 The last month has whizzed by, I have been doing things but when I look back at my photos there isn't much to show!

I made a little taggie for Finn, I don't think I put enough taggies in it, I have just looked at Susan's and think I should have had a few more. Not to worry he seem to like it!

I have made a lighthouse quilt for friends on the Sunshine Coast, they used to work in lighthouses years back

Joan has quilted it for me in a lovely wave pattern, next job is to sew on the binding.

Carole over at My Carolina Home is having a quilt drive , you can read about it on her blog, I thought I would use up some orphan blocks languishing in my block holder, these started as a hand sewn quilt, a pattern came out each month, I cant remember the magazine now, but it might have been Today's Quilter.

I got out the blocks, made them into little quilts, quilted and bound them and found they were too big, I hadn't read the requirements properly, so now I will need to find another home for them. They are too big to be sent to Carole. 

I signed up last Friday for a fundraiser with the BOS Australia group  to try and walk 57,000 steps a week

Thank you to the lovely people who have sponsored me, great motivation to keep walking!

Up until yesterday I have done 57,308 steps! Pretty happy with that. I was late starting this but will continue until the end of the month.

I have finally worked out how to send photos from my phone to the lap top (I think)

These photos are from Portarlington and Clifton Springs, I was walking and looking for geocaches, which is great motivation for me!!

These are the start of the filler blocks I need to make for the Anthology quilt, I have finished all the blocks, I just need to find the last photo!

Block 182.

I will put this into drafts as I have to go and get dinner!

Maybe I can finish this on the phone

Edwards Point  St Leonards

Caches in the bushes

St Leonards today,  the weather has changed

Happy stitching.

This and that

The Supervisor and I had a lovely walk along the beach yesterday

we noticed some fungi coming up

the tide was very high and the sun shining, and yes it was very windy but still very pleasant

more fungi

Later in the morning I went over to Portarlington to deliver some quilts to Joan of Faraway Quilts. Joan very kindly quilts the hospital quilts for me. After visiting Joan I went to Clifton Springs to look for a geocache

I am standing on a look out taking this photo and underneath is a cache. I have been here three times and happily, yesterday I finally found it!

You can see the supports of an old wharf that used to be here.

The fish and turtles are all ironed on and ready to be sewn.

Two nights ago I finished another Old Time Kaleidoscope block, happy smiles here!

Hubby has been weeding and mulching the front garden, we have one rose there that is flowering like mad, the perfume of the flowers is beautiful.

I had a lovely surprise in the mail from Ingrid, gorgeous fish fabric, I might use this on the back of the current Aussie Hero quilt.

Lots to do today so I had better get going.

Happy stitching.

The Supervisor

and I have been walking every morning, enjoying the peace along the beach front now that Easter is over

To swim or not to swim, that was the dilemma facing Tupai

Later in the morning I rode down to the community space for sewing with the St Leonards girls, it was a beautiful morning

today was a bit more overcast

but lovely and calm

I went over to Clifton Springs this morning to do some geocaching, this area was very popular in the 1880's when people came by steamer boat from Melbourne to take the waters! There were baths here, a spa and you could buy the bottled water that came out of the ground.

This is the remains of one of the bottles that used to be used here, they were shaped like a torpedo.

the remains of the old pier

this bird was looking for food but keeping an eye on me too

once back home and after having lunch, I was putting some things away when I found this box, it is full of fabric scraps, most are cut in two and a half inch squares, so I started sewing a few together

and ended up with this! Mmmmmm I do not need a new project at the moment!

Because I started this yesterday,I found this cute panel at Tracey's Discount Fabrics in Geelong and couldn't help myself...just love the sheep!! I have managed to go crooked off the backing on one side so need to fix that..that might be my challenge for tomorrow night as it is

a night of virtual sewing with friends from around the world.

Hosted by Cheryll of Gone Stitchin', you can sign up over at Cheryll's to join in.

Happy sewing.

On the road.....

Today Tania and I are heading off to St Leonard's for a few days R & R.....we stopped in Geelong to visit Red Desire, a beautiful shop we found last time through, run by the lovely Sophie,she is on the second level of the shopping centre and her shop is well worth a visit.

these are the little bottles I got at Sophie's shop, love them on the window sill.

We called in to the Blanket Box and met Zoe the owner and her Mum...who remembered Tania from last time, because she was sooooo excited to find French General fabric she had been looking for, for ages. We had a great browse in the shop and came home with this....

for me  a table runner with little stitcheries in the middle, surrounded by paper pieced shapes, little stitchery quilt labels, a fat quarter and a LED folding desk lamp!

Tania has a stash of William Morris fabrics and blue's and taupe's for a baby hexies project in the future and a lovely bottle of buttons.

We had a look at Clifton Springs - I hadn't been here before and found a great beach although it was a bit wild and windy today.......actually very wild and windy!!

there were 3 old piers along this part of the coast line, just the stumps remaining, we found out later one was a bathing pier with change rooms out at the end....separate changing rooms for men and women!! Another was where the steamer boats docked when they arrived from Melbourne......people came to take the waters and enjoy the sulphur mineral spa.....mineral water from here was put into green torpedo shaped bottles...was very interesting to read about this area.

The sea was roaring in!

Tania taking sea photos...it looks calm here but believe me it wasn't!

And finally this is the project I am attempting to work on today.........if I get around to it because it is now G & T time!! Cheers!!