Life is getting busy again

 The days are going by so quickly, seems to be my constant comment!

Progress has been made on the Old Time Kaleidoscope, all the EPP is done, now I need to cut borders and applique the whole EPP section on.

I am stitching on the last blue hexie piece and need to make more hexies for the next row.

A collection of School Girl sampler blocks finished last week

Betty's Medallion has two more borders, I am finding the instructions for this quilt a bit confusing, hence Jack the Ripper has made several visits!

This is the centre block for a Mystery quilt for the Geelong Guild, we had to buy fabrics first and then start our first month, this is going to be interesting and a challenge!

Anthology blocks for last week

Sylvia's Bridal Sampler block, I seem to have some kind of block when it comes to sewing half square triangles, so Jack visited several time during the making of this block too!

Ingrid came to visit on the weekend, we had a great time chatting and catching up and in between sewed up Schoolgirl Sampler blocks

This was another challenge, the half square triangles got me again, Ingrid took this one off me on Saturday evening and we revisited Sunday morning after some unpicking.

I thought I had a handle on Flying Geese but this block gave me a challenge too, I am happy it is done!

It is Anthology day again today, but first I have to go clean the house, I was dusting and then thought I would do a blog post as you do! 

A finish, but photo heavy

I have been sewing away on the medallion Mystery today

these blocks were done

as were these, despite my careful sewing and measuring

two blocks came out very uneven...not sure how that goes for the rest of the quilt...

but the finished medallion! Only lost one point and had a few nearly meeting seams but I am happy with it.

This morning the Supervisor and I had our stroll along the beach

started out quietly but we met a few other dogs along the way.

beautifully calm this morning

the supervisor had a paddle on the way back home.

The bees were busy in this purple flowering bush when I was hanging out the washing.

Yesterday on my way to sewing at Port I noticed these young birds on the power lines

I think they are teenage corellas

they were trying to chew through the line

then they decided to hang by their beaks and have a bit of a foot fight! They made me laugh!

Sewing was busy, we had a good crowd, this was only one table, there was another table behind me and then the ladies on their sewing machines

We heard we had taken over $2000 for the raffle at the quilt show...that money gets divided into $500 lots and goes to local charities.

Show and tell from Ann. This was a memory quilt made form some of her late husbands clothes, she has made one for each of her daughters. Isn't that a wonderful thing to do.

Last night

I finished all the flowers on the corners of the Doing the Rounds quilt. Yay!!

My meeting in the centre got better as I progresses, I am still debating whether to put a circle over the top of the centre or not

Last night I also appliqued on the little hexies to go in between the petals. Hope to do some more this evening.

I am off to sit and read in the sun for a while.

Happy stitching.

This and that

Last Wednesday at sewing group Jill finished all the sewing she had brought with her, so I asked if she wanted to sew on one of my petals on the Doing the Rounds and she did!!Yay!! Love the help and cooperation quilters show and I now have a little of Jill in my quilt.

I stumbled across a Medallion Mystery quilt on facebook, signed up to do the blocks and to the fb group, I have block 2 and nothing else, so have signed up again, we will see what happens. Currently it is week 3.

this is the start of the block, points are a weeny bit out but I am happy with it

I happily put on the next round, ironed it, took it to show the hubby and realised the top row is on the wrong way!!! Ppffff!!! So some unsewing happened while I cooked dinner, I need to take another photo as it is sewn back on the correct way now! 

Don't think the supervisor is happy with me moving around all the time!

We have had some beautiful roses in the garden

which are now inside to enjoy. The perfume is lovely.

There is a vine growing on the back fence, the leaves look like clematis, but the flower is like a passionfruit...any ideas please? It is very invasive, we are constantly pulling out runners popping up everywhere. 

another lovely rose which also smells beautiful.

Hubby bought me two bird boxes for my birthday

they are now in the gum tree in the back yard, they are as high as we could get them...hubby saw some galahs inspecting them this afternoon, hopefully we get some residents. There are two boxes next door that have a large family of galahs living there, so we are hoping....

the fig tree is producing

so is the plum tree

the geraniums are very happy

Lovely photo of the Supervisors bum...we have a family of ravens in the garden and they seem to be carrying bones in from somewhere, the supervisor has worked out that gifts are falling in the garden and he is sniffing them out!!

Happy stitching.