For my records

 I have finished the Guild Mystery quilt

Ops looks like it needed a good shake!

and the Corner Star Quilt

I did some sandwiching out on the back deck yesterday while the weather was still sunny, it was a bit challenging as it was very windy!

This strip quilt will go to a friend of Jenny's in Auckland when it is finished.

I now have 3 quilts ready to be quilted but first need to finish and Aussie Hero quilt I decided to squash in at the end of the month.

Happy stitching.

Gisborne Retreat

 A very happy three days was spent at the retreat at Gisborne, lots of chatting, laughing, sewing, eating happened plus a little walking, I was very happy to get 4 quilt tops nearly finished with the help of Margaret 

After some unsewing the Guild Mystery quilt is done,  just the borders to add now.

Margaret finished her I Spy quilt top

Another cheaters quilt for me with fabric I got from the quilt shop in Temora, borders from left overs at home.

Judy got a border on this left overs quilt top she and Christine made

Maxine had her beautiful hexie quilt back from Tracee of Hummingbird Quilting

Another quilt Maxine had back from Tracee, these were 9 patches she had from a swap many years ago

Another quilt top finished by Judy

Beautiful backing fabric Tracee has at her studio , she has another with Artic animals and yes one came home with me! 🙄

Carleen with her scrappy strip quilt

Another Judy quilt top made from fat quarters and other left over pieces.

Beautiful gum blossom

Autumn colours

This cloud stayed over us one day while we were walking

Margaret at work on my Anthology blocks

As there were 183 Anthology blocks we made 2 quilt tops, I want to put black all around and maybe a coloured side border to make them a little wider.

Thank you for your help Margaret, without you sewing and sewing for me only one quilt would be done! Quilty friends are the best!!!💓

I think that is enough for now, I will try and publish this on my phone and then go and fix the photos on the lap top..

Happy stitching. 😊 

PS I published this to the Scrub Stitching blog 😕 so have cancelled the one over there and tried again here.

FNWF

I was happily sewing away last night and finished up this quilt top for the Guild Mystery quilt

Blogger has this upside down, but you can see the now top row has some blocks around the wrong way , so today I have to unpick and try again 

This is what the quilt should look like 😁

I don't understand why blogger has decided to put the photos upside down  🙃🙂

I am doing this post on my phone so don't know how to link with Cheryll's blog but there us a link on the previous post.

Thank you Cheryll for an evening of virtual sewing together.

Happy stitching.

Tonight is

 

Thank you to Cheryll for hosting us.

Tonight I am hoping to get these blocks sewn together

These are for the Guild Mystery quilt and as we have been urged to have them finished by the Quilt In this month I thought I had better get on with it 😁. I have that quilt listed as #1 on the challenge, so that could be changed to something else.

I also found this kit, which was where it was supposed to be 🙄, I had put it away, oh dear!!

I have spent the last hour writing out the phone contacts from hubbies phone so we can manually enter them into his new phone! Now I am off to sew.

This and that

On our way home from Ballarat we stopped so I could do an Adventure Lab, which involved a 2km walk around around a lake looking at aboriginal art on plaques

On my way I spotted this wonderful letterbox

Oh dear blogger has turned it around again!!

Friday I went to a local school fair with Beth and Finn

Balloons are a favourite!

Beth's friend was being dumped in the water so they went over to push the button and got soaked! Lucky it was a warm afternoon.

I have been stitching away on the hexies mainly in the evenings

The station panel has been quilted by Joan , I need to do the binding now.

The binding is ready to go but for some unknown reason I cut it at 3 inches and not two and a half, so I have to trim it back.

All the blocks are made for  Guild Mystery Quilt, they need to be sewn together. I have  a picture to follow so need to sit and quietly work it out.

I am off for a bike ride to the post box now

Happy Stitching.

February

 Another month to fire up with the next Chookshed Stitchers Challenge 2024

This month Deana has drawn #2.

#2 for me is to work on Oncology quilts

I have been given many, many quilt tops, blocks, part done quilts and fabric to be made in to quilts to go to the Oncology ward at St John of God hospital in Geelong. Belinda, the lovely ward admin lady there, looks after the quilts and matches them up with the right person. She is very particular about the quilts as she knows the work that goes into them, if you say you don't like quilts them you don't get one!!

this bag has 4 quilts that are quilted, they need their binding and label.

Some embroidered blocks and a quilt top than need attention

these three quilts need backing and quilting, lets see how much gets done this month!!

Linking up over at Deana's blog.

I will also be sewing on the Guild Mystery Quilt this month when the next instructions come out. (Trying not to get behind!!)

Happy stitching.

This and that

I have continued on with the Guild Mystery Quilt, some sewing and unsewing when I realised I hadn't read the pattern properly!

This is the unsewing section , done in  front of the tv over two evenings

And the required 16 blocks

Today I have finished the light value blocks...now to sew the left over dark and light triangles together, I have sewn 50 and have 78 to go 😁.

I have also been sewing up left over bits from other quilts. This top will go to the US to a lady who donates quilts to children who find themselves in a police car or ambulance or hospital. I need to add a bit more to get it to the right length.

As I have heaps to do at present I have signed up for another Aussie Hero quilt - the recipient has asked for black and red plus Lotd of the Rings, I am waiting on a panel to come in the mail and then will get to it.

Ok, off to do a little more

Happy stitching. 

FNWF

I started on the afternoon sitting out on the front deck, there was a lovely breeze which got stronger as the afternoon went on, I needed things to hold my fabric on the table

Most of the fabric cut I went inside 

258 squares cut diagonally!! 😳

I sewed several triangles together u till I didn't want to sit at the machine any more

Then I cut out the lining for #6

And got a bit like a blowfly in a bottle doing a bit of this and that

A strip was sewn for the Mad quilt

And some hexies were sewn because I could - now these neglected projects have been brought to my attention I want to work on them NOW!🤣😂

I had a productive Friday evening,  thank you to Cheryll for hosting us.

Happy stitching.