August Challenge

 Here it is nearly the end of August, my challenge has gone well

My EPP finish was in my last post

I have also completed two Aussie Hero quilts, the second will go in the post today

the requests were for the same thing, blue, yellow, green, islands, water, tropical flowers, the Rising Sun badge and other badges. The Rising Sun is machine embroidered by a lady in Sydney, and the other badges are created on the computer and printed on fabric ready to be sewn in,

#1 quilt

and #2 quilt. Very happy to have them done and in the post. I wonder what next month will bring.

Happy stitching.

August Challenge

 

My first part of the challenge is completed

This quilt was started June 2021, it was a challenge from Ingrid. The hexies are all sewn by hand, the border machine appliqued on and binding sewn by machine too. It was quilted by Tracee from Hummingbird quilting, I am sure I said that in the last post! I am very happy to have it completed.

I have also finished 2 blankets, sewn the squares together and finished off with a crochet edge. One more to do and then they will go to KOGO.

That is me up to date, I hope to start on an Aussie Hero quilt tomorrow afternoon, but there is a call to the garden, David is putting in a wooden edge and the weeds have to be removed first and guess who needs to be going that! So far I have spent 6 hours out there - good to do when it is fine and sunny but think of all that wasted sewing time!!!

Happy stitching.

August Chook Shed Stitchers Challenge

 Another new month and another challenge, this month it is

Number three.

For me that is EPP and the Tea and Cake quilt.

I have been quietly stitching away at this when I had the time and last week I took the finished quilt top along on retreat and Tracee of Hummingbird Quilting very kindly quilted it for me so it was finished by the time I came home. How is that for wonderful service!!

Tracee has quilted with bees

aren't they great!

So now I need to trim and bind.

This month I am also going to try and make an Aussie Hero quilt, waiting to hear back about that.

Ok I am off now to trim the quilt then a cuppa and a little time with the wasgij.

Happy stitching.

Chookshed Stitchers 2024 Challenge

 

I joined in a zoom yesterday organised by  Chooky, and decided to join in this challenge organised by Chooky and Deana, each month Deana is going to choose a number between 1 and 10 and that is the project we work on for that month. 

My list will be

1. Guild mystery Quilt, as I need to catch up on Month 1 and 2. I am behind already!!

I might have to work on this a little each month to keep up.

2. Oncology quilts - I have been given several unfinished quilts, they need to be finished and quilted and bound before they can be delivered, so this is a time to get one/some done.

this heap on the bed will be 6 quilts once I get them done.

3. is EPP month, several other people are making EPP this month, I am wanting to do more on the Tea and Cake quilt, maybe even head towards a finish - maybe that is too ambitious, but worth a try!

this poor top has been scrunched in a bag for months and not seen the light of day.

4. Is a panel quilt, several people have chosen to do something with a panel for this one, mine is a panel of Flinders Street Station I have had for ages and ages!! Will be good to get it done.

5. This will be some slow stitching for me, a kit I have had for 3 years I think, bought at the Guild exhibition or Quilt In

If I get this done then I will do some stitching on Anthology as well. I need to make some filler blocks and do the sashing.

6. This is the time to make last years Scrub Stitching bag

7. I am hoping to finish the Daylesford quilt I started months ago

I am a bit concerned this one will not sit flat so will have to press it and see how it goes before adding more borders.

8. Another time to work on the Oncology quilts.

9. Make up the Winding Ways quilt - it will be good to make it up instead of putting it on a shelf and thinking one day I will do that!

10. Make Finns Christmas stocking - it didn't happen this year

I realise the numbers will be random and my putting the Guild challenge at the top of the list doesn't mean I get to work on it in Jan, but maybe I can fit it in somewhere along the way.

I haven't' done anything like this before so will be interesting to see how this all goes.

We are off to the beach for a swim now

Happy New Year and very happy stitching.

Tuesday

 And no kitchen started. Yesterday one of the builders was here and he completed the shower units, the kitchen might now start on Wednesday, we shall see.

finished floors in the lounge, kitchen dining area, the bath has now moved to the dining room 😀

Shower units are complete, this on in the ensuite, the one in the bathroom looks exactly the same.

Hubby busy painting the window frames in the bathroom.

I joined in Chooky's zoom session on Saturday

I pinched this photo from Chooky I hope that is ok?? You can see the beautiful fabric she was cutting on Saturday, and the lovely zoom ladies. I think Chooky said 30 odd bloggers dropped in and out over the day, was so good to catch up. Thank you very much for organising these days Chooky.

I spent the day sewing Tea and Cake, some of this bottom section where the hexie flowers join onto the row of four hexies. I laid it out Sunday morning and realised I have left out two purple hexies that should be beside the aboriginal fabric hexies. So some unsewing happened and now they are pinned where they need to go. So frustrating getting the little stitches out! I should have realised when the pale green row wasn't straight.

We had a beautiful sunset on the weekend, sadly the camera didn't pick up the amazing colours in the clouds.

I was waiting on labels to come in the mail, as the ones I have are of course packed away. They arrived Friday so now three quilts are ready to be sent to a family in Lismore. Two I have made and one Margaret from Gisborne made and Tracee quilted.

I had better away I am getting cold sitting here in my jammies and dressing gown and I am hungry for breakfast and it is after 10am!! 😃

Happy stitching.

Time to catch up again

 The days are rushing by here, so what have I been doing? Some packing and sorting, some sewing, some bike riding and some preserving...lets have a look

Three weeks of Anthology blocks,

Epp was finished

It was supposed to be made into a cushion top, but I had another idea which I can show later. I don't understand why I didn't finish this sooner, it really didn't take very long.

Hexies have been cut and glued for Tea and Cake, I now have 420 made, but need 480 and have run out of fabric. Hopefully I can get more next week.

a small bag of fabric is now a bunch of cropped diamonds ready for sewing

A large group of galahs flew in and settled on the power lines over the road, lots of chattering was going on. I like to think they are still unhappy with the tree removal from next door, but that is probably me and not them!!

Such lovely birds.

I was sewing the binding onto this quilt last night and had a very nearly not enough binding moment, thankfully I had about 2 inches spare.

Sylvia's Bridal Sampler is finished, binding completed Wednesday evening.

I bought this pattern recently from a friend, I have made it slightly bigger than the pattern, I still need to add borders.

And when I was sorting things in the sewing room I came across a pile of mostly 6 inch squares - these came with another quilters stash, some were a bit over 6inches and some under, I had to cut a few myself to replace the smaller ones and by late afternoon I had a quilt top, great for an I Spy quilt. The borders used up fabric from my stash. 

This morning a brew of fig paste went into the crock pot and cooked away all day, it tastes and smells heaps better than it looks here!! It is all in jars now and ready to go into the fridge.

We went shopping yesterday and have purchased most of what is needed for the renovations, we just need a kitchen sink, we like the old fashioned type that has a drainer at both sides of the sink and a double sink, so we have to find one, we also need to get a new oven. Hopefully everything will then progress as planned...fingers crossed!

I think I need a cuppa, have been avoiding the TV as the footie season has started again! Oh boy!

Happy stitching.

A bit of this and a bit of that

 I was going to write catching up again as it seems to be how most of my blog posts are these days. Not a lot of sewing has been happening here, I have been reading, doing a bit of gardening but do not have much energy as I am anaemic again, but I am heading in to Geelong tomorrow for an iron infusion and next week is the scheduled B12 injection, so all will be well.

Some photos I have taken

Anthology blocks from the last two weeks

Some hexie progress

A little progress on the mystery hexie quilt, I am not finished and a new tempting one has been put out by Jemimas Creative Quilting,

Progress on Tea and Cake, not the best photo! I need to take another photo as more progress has happened since this one.

I was given this book years ago and decided to try and make something from it. We have a postcard challenge at the Guild so I am attempting a postcard combining fabric and paper

this is the start, I need to get back to it! The teacups are from a serviette.

Signs of spring on the way in the garden.

Saturday I joined into a zoom session organised by Chooky, there were ladies from Australia, NZ, Canada, USA and Germany. I had a great time chatting, stitching and listening. It is wonderful to catch up with people we can't otherwise see during these lockdown times.

I sewed many hexagons together and lots onto the main tea and cake quilt top, many many more to go though.

I took the epp stars out of their tin recently and decided to give them a good starch and iron and then applique them onto squares, that plan has partly come to fruition, I have a pile to sew and a pile to take papers out of.

This was the moon we saw out over the Bay on Sunday evening, such a beauty.

I had better get off and do something, read a book, remove some epp papers, plenty to be doing here.

Happy stitching.