Continuing with the catch up

 

Blogger has decided to put all the photos in here back to front and this one is completely out of order!

Jenny gave me this jigsaw for Christmas and we completed it in two days (not a lot else was done!!)

Our usual goodbye photo at the airport, we have collected many of these over the years.

I had a walk one morning

More steps to go

Steps done

someone left their sandcastles from the day before

Quiet and deserted this morning

Jenny asked me to make a mug bag for her friend Debbie in NZ, so we chose some fabric I got in Hawaii.

Hank

Just too cute, Hank.

Tira not talking to Jenny, she is a typical chow!

Food???

Near St Leonards Market, a car Jenny liked

near the market, a car like Jennies

St Leonards market by the beach

I made a banana cake in the crock pot, it tasted wonderful, had 5 bananas, a can of condensed milk and gf flour. The first day was beautiful, the second day it was as hard as a rock!

We had out catch up Christmas once Adam was better, Beth wanted some family photos, so we obliged!!😀

Me, David, Beth, Adam Trish and Brad with Hank at the front.

Brad, Beth, Adam and Trish.

Me, David, Beth, Adam and Jenny, Hank in the front again.

Adam and Beth.

More soon

Happy stitching.

One Day Late

 I am one day late with my Churn dash SAL organised by Chooky, somehow it is October already.

I spent Thursday sewing away , quite a lot of unsewing happened too as I had trouble getting the triangle pieces going the right way. I finally finished after dinner and am very happy with the flimsy.

Now to get it quilted.

Two more Anthology blocks have been made

I think I have about 40 to go - seems a bit more obtainable now.

We have had some nice days for beach walks

This galah was watching a fissure in a tree where a rainbow lorikeet was nesting, maybe there is competition for homes here!

Ths galah was sitting on the perch watching what was going on.

I love this time of the year when I can go to the bush by the beach and pick a huge handful of freesias, they grow wild down there. I had some in each room of the house and the smell was wonderful.

The Aussie Hero Quilt is finished and in the mail, the request was for Aussie flowers and birds, plus the Rising Sun and Infantry badge.

The back was all flowers

This was an unfinished photo, I can't find a finished one!!

I spent one afternoon this making green blocks - the retreat ladies were given green strips from Kates stash and were asked to make blocks we can put together next retreat into a quilt. I added some extra green fabrics I had here.

I think that is me all caught up for now, I am off to sew some backing pieces together.

Happy stitching.

Last Sunday

 Jill and I went over the Drysdale to the Springdale hall where the local felters were having a show.

The view as you came in the door. There were many beautiful things here, jackets, scarves, hats and some lovely containers of all shapes and sizes

this one came home with me. No idea what I am going to do with it, I just liked it, I guess it can sit on the window sill for now and be admired! 😀

Tuesday I went over to Portarlington to take a quilt to Joan to be quilted and on the way home had a wander through the newish playground there, the sculptures are done with a chainsaw and are the base  of old trees. (Newish could have been pre covid)

These dolphins are beautiful

Love this octopus chair

So clever.

A stack of crabs

These are down at the beach near where the ferry leave from for Melbourne, I think they are mussels as there is a lot of mussel farming in the bay out from here. 

Lots of work is happening here, a new wharf has been built, a covered walkway is going in for the ferry passengers and the mussel farmers can drive out to their boats if they need to.

The most amazing moon came up Tuesday night, I was told it was a strawberry full moon.

Some views from my walk yesterday

It was a windy morning.

Right I am sure there is something I should be doing, so I will go and find what it is!

Happy stitching.

This has been a week

 of reading book,. finishing up quilts, foundation paper piecing, english paper piecing and wandering along the beach

I walked along the beach at Indented Head last week

the remains of the old paddle steamer are still visible and much used by the birds.

The name on one of the beach huts, which translates to the House

I passed the Little free library the other day and was saddened to read the note on the door, someone had been taking books and selling them online, so not what the idea is about!

Two oncology quilts are finished.

I have finished this book, in a flood of tears I might add, (happy ones!) It was a great read, love story, WW2 story, family story. story of love and loss and of a child with problems, well worth reading if you can.

I have finished another Old Time Kaleidoscope block, two more to go!! Yay!!

I have prepared next weeks Sylvia's Bridal Sampler block, with a lot of help from Jill here at St Leonards, Jill is the applique queen and showed me how to do these blocks a different way to in the book.

Jill also came over Friday afternoon for a foundation paper piecing lesson, she made the flying geese, I am not sure I have converted her to the joys of fpp 👩

Another 5 hearts have joined the family, I didn't realise I have used the same fabric two strips in a row until I took the photo! 

One of this weeks Sylvia's blocks

and a second, I couldn't believe I hadn't already made this one, it was not ticked in the index or in the book, but when I put it away I found another in the box! I need to improve my recording system.

The first of this weeks Anthology blocks

And the second. These are coming along quite well, but it is going to be a very long term project.

We had some heavy rain and cold weather this week, up in Gisborne where we used to live they had snow! We lived in Gisborne for 20 years and saw snow once.

We have had days like this, cloudy and wet

a beautiful flower spike come up from the bulb

and days like this, a little warmer and sunnier.

I am off for a cuppa.

Happy stitching.