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.

Tuesday

 And no kitchen started. Yesterday one of the builders was here and he completed the shower units, the kitchen might now start on Wednesday, we shall see.

finished floors in the lounge, kitchen dining area, the bath has now moved to the dining room 😀

Shower units are complete, this on in the ensuite, the one in the bathroom looks exactly the same.

Hubby busy painting the window frames in the bathroom.

I joined in Chooky's zoom session on Saturday

I pinched this photo from Chooky I hope that is ok?? You can see the beautiful fabric she was cutting on Saturday, and the lovely zoom ladies. I think Chooky said 30 odd bloggers dropped in and out over the day, was so good to catch up. Thank you very much for organising these days Chooky.

I spent the day sewing Tea and Cake, some of this bottom section where the hexie flowers join onto the row of four hexies. I laid it out Sunday morning and realised I have left out two purple hexies that should be beside the aboriginal fabric hexies. So some unsewing happened and now they are pinned where they need to go. So frustrating getting the little stitches out! I should have realised when the pale green row wasn't straight.

We had a beautiful sunset on the weekend, sadly the camera didn't pick up the amazing colours in the clouds.

I was waiting on labels to come in the mail, as the ones I have are of course packed away. They arrived Friday so now three quilts are ready to be sent to a family in Lismore. Two I have made and one Margaret from Gisborne made and Tracee quilted.

I had better away I am getting cold sitting here in my jammies and dressing gown and I am hungry for breakfast and it is after 10am!! 😃

Happy stitching.

FNWF results

Last night was the last FNWF for 2017. Many thanks to Cheryll for being a wonderful host.

I cut out some little stitcheries, their wadding and backing

some more circles are ready to be pinned in place

the binding is finished on one quilt, the other ready to go.

This morning I made some almond and walnut biscuits

some are a little over cooked but still taste good!

Yesterday I went to see the movie Goodbye Christopher Robin

I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was not what I was expecting, but a great movie all the same, gave me much food for thought.

I am off to do a little sewing before heading our for a BBQ lunch.

Happy sewing.

Cutting and pinning

Today I have trimmed the two quilts for others and cut the binding, they are all ready to go

the Aussie hero quilt has been sandwiched and is ready to be quilted

I have a date with the sewing machine this afternoon!

Yesterday the St Leonards sewing group went out for our Christmas lunch, we went to Basils Farm, which is on the road to Queenscliff. They have amazing vege gardens and fruit trees here

this is the view from the vege gardens to Swan Bay

Happy quilters

Wendys lunch

my lunch, We had a great lunch with  lots of laughter and chatting.

I had better go find that sewing machine.

Happy sewing.

Sandwich time

I decided the other day it was time to get some quilt tops sandwiched....they delay for me is always putting the backing together...but yesterday I got sorted and now two tops that have been waiting around are ready to be quilted.

not sure how to quilt this one but something will come to mind no doubt!

This one will be plain quilting in bright thread I am thinking, it is flannel so might need to put on a cotton fabric binding, which I hope will be stronger. Any thoughts? 

These two quilts will both go to the Bellarine Quilting group to add to their Quilts for others collection.

The last two evenings, as it has been a little cooler, I have sewn the binding on this quilt, a little one I collected at Guild, that will go to the Childrens Hospital

and this one is part way through.

On Friday the hubby and I went into Geelong to the Art Gallery to have a look at the Archibald Prize paintings on display

this one appealed to me, I liked all the layers and textures

this one I saw on Anh Do's TV programme and didn't realise there are moths and bugs incorporated in the painting, there is information about the painting here.  It was very moving watching the painting evolve and hear Jack Charles talk about his life.

I liked this one for the serenity in this ladies face, I can not remember her age but she is over 100 yrs.

I am off to sit at the machine now and get quilting.

Happy sewing.

Catch up 1

Life has been a bit hectic for the last week, this afternoon is catch up time!
I took the Supervisor for a walk the other day, we had some rain and the corellas were out playing on the power lines

Off we go

these corellas were swinging around in circles having a wonderful time!

The Supervisor had a paddle!

I did some gardening when we got home and came in looking like a beetroot!!

Need to work on the selfie photo!!

Saturday was Guild day and we were shown some of the quilts that members have made for the Children's Hospital

sorry for the photo quality, I had to get between peoples heads!

I like this scrappy one

this is cute

love the colours on this one

this is one of three quilts a Guild member gave Judy, the lady on the left. The owner had fallen out of love with it, so Judy cut it up and remade it into three quilts for the hospital. Looks great.

This was one of two blankets made by Margaret's sister Jenny in WA. They were both beautifully made and I am sure will be loved.

Our speaker for the meeting was Caroline Sharkey,. one busy talented lady!

This is one of her mini quilts, lots of layers of fabric and thread...

and another, there were many quilts to look at and ooh and aah over!!

this is fabric she us experimenting with, taking photos of small parts of her quilts and having them reproduced ...they looked amazing.

These very luck ladies won the special raffle prizes, a wall hanging of Byron Lighthouse and framed textile art.

You can see the crowd wanting a close look at Caroline's quilts after the talk.

Tomorrow (which actually was yesterday) I am off to do a workshop with Caroline , looking forward to that.

Happy sewing.

Life

has been a little busy the past few days, we have had family staying, people visiting and there have been sewing days. The AFL Grand final was on last Saturday and the Tigers are hubby's team .....he was nervous but so happy when they won. He hasn't stopped giggling yet!!
The girls left them too it and went off to Queenscliff to have a wander around the shops, I found this tin

which is perfect for keeping all the stars in one place

love the sayings on the sides. This was probably someones best cake or sponge tin at some stage!

Monday was sewing day at the Bellarine Quilters

here is Sue's beautiful Kaffe Fasset quilt, with a twist by Sue! Looks amazing!

Laurie was working on these beautiful fussy cut hexies.

Margaret has finished her row by row challenge quilt.

a quilt for others by Barbara I think

these are two more of Barbara's, interesting how the quilts are the same pattern but look so different , Barbara has been using up her strip scraps.

The Aussie hero Quilt is coming along well

 
just a few more ends of cotton to finish in and the label to write. (And maybe an iron!!;-)  )
Today was sewing day at Seachange, Pam and I were helping Bronwyn quilt her quilt!

Bronwyn spent hours using the accugocutter (is that the right name??) cutting 2 inch squares, then laying them on a backing, and sewing them all together, her colour placement is beautiful.

One of the ladies there made this beautiful sloth 

for another ladies son! How cute is that!!

And yesterday I made this block which will go to Karen, she has asked for these dog blocks to go into a wall hanging, quilt, place mats etc to fund raise for agencies who have taken in animals after the recent disaster in the southern parts of the US.

What ever Karen makes will be auctioned off to fun raise. You can see some more of these blocks over at BubzRugz, Fiona has made three beautiful blocks for Karen, and Maria of Life on the Block has done the same.

I only had to do a little unsewing and that was because I didn't read the instructions properly!! I have another block cut and ready to sew, so plan to do that after dinner.

Happy sewing.