Friends

yesterday I met up with Shez and Lyn in Geelong, we met at Jiddys Patch as we all know where to find it!! I wonder why!!!

I have pinched Shez's photo as I didn't get the camera into action!!

We had lunch at the Whole foods cafe, the food was wonderful and down the back they have a store with all kinds of organic goodies!

Again photo courtesy of Shez!! Thanks Shez!!!

We did a little shopping and I found this cushion for son #2, he loves Combi vans, sadly no chowchow in the van!! Lol!!

I did some more work on one of the applique blocks

and glued it to the back ground

The last couple of nights I  have been sewing knitted rectangles together to make a rug for KOGO, I get sent the kitted pieces and put them together, then do some crochet around the edges.

this one I had laid out on the bed last Monday, I went out and when I got home found that hubby had rearranged them...some pieces are bigger than others, so the mixing of smaller and larger pieces has worked well. Have some friends coming to have a go at Free Range Quilting this morning, so had better get myself organised.

Happy sewing.

Bloggers meet up

Yesterday we had our bloggers meet up at Patch'nQuilt in Gisborne...much fun and laughter was had, I am sure the other customers in the shop were well entertained by us, even though we were in the back room

here are some of the lovely ladies who were sewing, we had a larger group but some were getting coffee and others shopping. ..there are lots of wonderful tempting things in Mary's shop, our swap challenge for the day was something bird..

this is the wall hanging I made and it went home with Kim,

Jo with her sewing kit

Elyte with her lovely bag

Anne with a beautiful bag made by Lyn

plus a sparkly bird and a pattern

Christine with her beautiful bag made by Elyte

Lyn with her reversible bag made by Marg...how good is that!!

Shez with her fantastic hanging and the most modern in head wear....great bird fabric!!!

Barb with her sewing caddy owl and bag in a bag

Marg with a beautiful pincushion little bird  and fabric..

These swaps are wonderful as everyone has different ideas....the gifts are always something different.

the table of swaps.

just to show there was some stitching done on the day, Annie, Christine and Lyn

Elyte and Anne (aka Robyn)...Shez got a little confused for a while there. .lol..

Oooo...Hello Shez!!!!

Lol !!! 

We had a wonderful day and I am so very lucky to know this amazing group and to be able to have stitching time with them, we are always laughing and chatting and having a great time and I can never look at a packet of Tim Tams the same way again ladies!!!! 

Happy sewing.

I have been

out and about and catching up with wonderful blogging people the last few days...I started off with lunch at Port Arlington with Shez, Jo and Lyn...we had lunch at the Old Bakery and found a table in their beautiful garden area at the back

I have pinched a photo from Jo's blog

Look at these two cheeky girls!!!

Jo's lunch!!! Lol!! No not really, just kidding!!

If nothing else we kept the waiter entertained!!!

Lyn with her lunch...

Guess who couldn't find a pole????Had to make do with a tree instead!! lol!! 

I stayed the night with the wonderful Tracee.....just love the view out of the doors....evening light makes everything look softer...

The next morning we set off and collected Marg and then set off for Craigeburn to meet up with the City girls....

Elyte, myself, Marg, Marina, Clare (aka Sylvia) Jo, Robyn and Tracee.

We had a wonderful lunch at a cafe near the Craigeburn Lakes complex...it was sooooooo hot outside, but lovely inside...and we had wonderful food...when we went back to Tracees car to return to Marina's, the car temp said 46 deg C!!!!!!! Far TOO HOT!!!!

Back at Marina's in the cool house, Clare, Marina, Robyn and Elyte sewed on..

so did Tracee and Marg...

looks like serious conversation over there....Robyn, Elyte and Jo...we had a wonderful day...thank you so much Marina for organising the day!

On our drive home the weather started to change......but the cool took a long time to happen...I stayed at Tracee's again and had another yummy dinner and a couple too many G & T's!!! My excuse was it was a hot day!!! lol!!

Tracee's puppy Justice.....the puppies are 6 months old now.....he has been playing in the mud from the dam, so I took the photo from the window as I didn't want to get mudded!!!! Isn't he a handsome boy! My car had to go in for a service in Melton...so Tracee came with me, and took me to a wonderful fabric shop and some things were on special.....very hard to resist!!!

two panels, the flower one and the little girl one, some gray and green fabric and buttons...and a beautiful batik fabric for an Aussie hero quilt...

after the service was done I did some geocaching...there is a run of caches at the back of Melton based on Aussie sayings....this one was "Has rocks in the head"!!!  Was very entertaining for me!! Well I had better stop now or you will all be asleep!

Happy sewing.