Over the long weekend

 I was busy walking the dogs, catching up on chores and sewing!!

I have finished two of the quilt tops donated  to the Bellarine Quilters, they will be added to the Quilts for Others pile.

Hank has to be up and watching, with toy in mouth, when ever I move around.

another quilt has been sandwiched, this one will be a play mat for hubbies great niece, it is Red Tractor fabric

Hanks was under the table trying to catch blow flies 😒

Tira was reclining in the shade

On the move again 😀

I had better be now and go sort some lunch

Happy stitching.

FNWF

 Tonight is Friday and it is Friday Night with Friends, the first Friday of the month. Cheryll is our lovely host and has gathered us together for an evening of crafting. This afternoon I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and sandwich a quilt. The top has come from a lady who no longer quilts, she has gone into care and sent her son along to our group with 3 bags of quilt tops on the condition they all go to charity. So I am making a start

My two assistants have been loafing about

enjoying the beautiful weather

I am off outside again while it is still sunny to try and get another top sandwiched.

Happy stitching.

FNWF

And family...I didn't get a lot of sewing done

All I did were these two hexagon units for the Tea and Cake quilt

Shane and Rilla arrived around 9pm  along with Miss Miffy who settled in on the couch.

Saturday we went to Van Loons for lunch to celebrate Shane's birthday  sorry only photos of Finn 😁

So many things to look at here!

Finn enjoyed a bub a chino 

Later in the afternoon we all enjoyed Finn's playing

He was taking off and putting on the wooden ball on the beach glass container and thought he was so clever!! We all did!!

So special to have everyone together.

This morning we found Miffy

Climbing the back door screen

The lure of the birds outside was too much. She did have to stay inside though!

I have done a little sewing this afternoon, we now have Hank and Tira staying for a couple of nights

I am off to the lap top to see if I can turn these sideways photos around.

Happy stitching.

PS All good now!!

A Finish

 The Aussie Hero quilt was finished this morning and has gone in the post, I hope it gets to Germany before the recipient comes home

The request was for the German flag colours, plane silhouette, and the eagle, plus his dates for being away - it is a bright one!!

It is a very hot day here for us, 34 deg C, I am waiting for the rain to come 😞 then maybe it will be more comfortable.

On my way home from the PO today I collected the dogs so they could come for a visit

Tira wants to sit outside and when she is outside wants to come in!!

Hank has found the toy box so he is happy!

We had a challenge at Guild last month , we were given fabric to make a table mat

I added the green fabric to get the mat wide enough and added a zip pocket as Jo does, didn't do it as well as Jo does but it still works. I have been searching for some Xmas earrings or something to add to the zip pull, the berries/bells I have are too small - I will continue searching.

I am off to the other toom now to enjoy the cool of the air conditioning.

Happy stitching.

Catching up yet again

 Time gets away on me, it does not help that I have been doing lots of reading! 😀

the flower and horse quilt and the ferret, horse, pig and dogs quilt have gone to their new home, photos to come.

the pelicans are still around down near the boat launching ramp

Shane came for an afternoon and we walked the dogs

another day recently I came across Adam and Beth when I was walking Hank, so we walked together

another Anthology block has been made

I saw and enjoyed this movie

and then  had lunch looking over the bay, the clouds were amazing

the last two days I hve been making blocks for the bookcase quilt which has been sadly neglected

a vase and flower

a messy photo but the quilt so far, I was busy sewing away last night and realised I had made a mistake and forgot to put in the brown for the shelf, so some unsewing needs to be done today.

The vest for Finn is coming along slowly, love this wool Raewyn gave me, just the arm bands to go and then sewing up.

This mess is another heap of knitted squares waiting to be made into a KOGO blanket - if I keep it in sight i.e. on the chair next to me, maybe it will get done!!

the two quilts promised earlier, it had taken me ages to find them on the phone.

That is enough for me for now

Happy stitching.

FNWF

I sat in the sewing room and cut out the stamped cropped diamonds.

I am happy I managed to cut all I had stamped, took me the best part of 3 hours!!

one label was also sewn on 😁

Today I have been for a walk with Adam and Finn

was a little wet and cold

but there was time for photos  then we had to move otherwise Finn wakes up!!

safe from the rain

this was Thursday when we last went for a walk.

the dogs are visiting again this afternoon.

You can see what the other Friday nighters created over at Cheryll's blog, link on the last post.

Happy stitching.

Catching up again

Some finishes have happened recently, labels are being sewn on, that is a good feeling 😁

I was given this quilt to finish off, 8t is nor finished, quilted, bound and labelled, it will go to Oncology.

this quilt was made by Heather, at Bellarine Quilters, quilted and finished off by me, it is also going to Oncology.

this is a little cot quilt, I was asked to make it for a soon to be new Mum. Quilted by Joan and finished off by me this weekend.

Thought Bubbles is nearly finished, just needs the label sewn on. Lots of hand sewing in this one. It will hang in Finns room.

and here is Finn, happily playing

we had the fur grand babies here today

they enjoy running in the back yard and relaxing inside.

Finn sleeping under the blanket his proud grandmother made 😁

and the label is being sewn onto the hearts quilt, Joan quilted it for me this week, the binding has gone on today and now the label. Very happy some finishes are getting done. This is also going to Oncology.

Right I had better go and finish that label.

Happy stitching.