Busy day

Today was a productive day, some sewing and some unsewing happened, but first I had a walk in the mostly sunshine

when I got home the Supervisor was waiting for me

I made this quilt top earlier in the year from a pattern kindly sent to me by Ondrea who has a passion for small quilts.

this is a challenge from the Guild for the exhibition in November and is supposed to be 50cm square. In trying to use inches and centimeters I have managed to get it too small, so I unpicked the blue border

carefully measured and added a new border...which is still too small!!  So much for my careful measuring.

In between sewing and unsewing I have been watching the Invictus Games, these athletes are amazing, today was volley ball played on the floor and at least one cheek (bum cheek) has to stay in contact with the floor at all times!! I learned something today!!

Is very emotional to hear some of the stories of the competitors, they have been through a lot in their lives and given up a lot to serve their country.

So the third border was sewn on, the backing sewn on and now I need to hand sew the opening closed. It is a fraction under 50 cm, but it is staying the way it is!!  The instructions say no wadding which is a change for me!

Front and back, now to work out how to quilt this little number.

Today I also got the Minions quilt top together

I think I will sandwich it and then the applique can also be part of the quilting. This is another Aussie Hero request.

And finally I found all the pieces of the door class I did with Gloria Loughman earlier in the month and have ironed them all together. 

Next they need to be trimmed and quilted.

I had better go and check on dinner.

Happy sewing.

This and that

Saturday the 9th of September saw me at the Guild for a workshop with Gloria Loughman, we were learning applique doorways.  It was a great day, I learned heaps, it would have been good to have a second day of class to get a finish. I took a few ohotos of Glorias work

Just love the colours in the Sydney Harbour Bridge quilt, Gloria made that one after seeing the Vivid Festival up there.

This is the door way I was working on

This is Glorias quilt that we are working from.

Some happy quilters busy working away

I had to rush home after the class as hubby was taking me to the airport, we had dinner, he went home and I stayed in a hotel so I could be up at 4am to get over and checked in to fly to NZ. My mother, who has just turned 92 needs help at home, she does not want it but needs it, so we had a visit from an assessor, visit to the doctor for a memory test and there is more to come next week.

I had a wonderful day out to Tirau  on Wednesday and met up with Julie for lunch and a chat, we are going thru similar mother things. It was lovely to see her, I have photos but they are on the camera and will come later.

I have run away for the weekend to Auckland to visit Jenny

I stopped at a road side park to look for a geocache, this place is where you get the first glimpse of the Tauranga Harbour, always a sign to me that home was not far away.

This carving is on the edge of the park.

This is the view from Jennys deck

Her mad seagull has settled in too!!

Must away, conversations to be had.

Happy sewing.