Baradine Saturday night

Saturday afternoon we have to leave the main room at Baradine, so set up for dinner can happen. Most of the ladies had drinks outside and watched the sunset,  I relaxed in the room and read.

The theme for this meet was Star and could be interpreted in any form.

Raewyn and I wore the stars for the night

Lea was the Milky Way, her necklace was eaten as the night went on 😁

Tina and Harriet were Star Wars characters,  they come up with wonderful ideas those two! 

The table and the room looked wonderful. Decorated by Chooky, Di and Miranda.

Christine and Janice wearing their stars.More of Baradine soon.

Happy stitching.

Energy levels restored

 I am happy to say the iron infusion has kicked in this week and the squirrel is back in action, we have been doing a little of this and a little of that!! 😀

We had a beautiful Spring day earlier this week, it was wonderful to be out in the garden, I am happy to say this bed is now weed free

different story out the back but we will get to it!

Tuesday I decided to sandwich a quilt top that has been waiting for ages

it is done but still waiting for some quilting attention.

I have also cut pieces for a new quilt...as you do when you have several others to finish!!

A few more stars have been sewn.

Mt sewing room smells amazing, the jasmine is nearly done but the freesias are wonderful.

This weeks Anthology block

A few more of these little guys have been sewn together...they are very small and one row takes me a while and you don't have a lot to show for it, but it will grow slowly, slowly.

We have a lemon and tangelo tree in the back yard, both with a lot of fruit, so I bought two oranges and a grapefruit to add to what we had and chopped it up to soak over night

Yesterday we ended up with 14 jars of marmalade. Yum.

the blocks are all finished for the batik quilt, now I need to cut sashings, I got a bit distracted (squirrelled)and started another quilt top with  Minions image on it, I hope to get back to both of them today. 

My major distraction over the last couple of weeks has been this book series

The Seven Sisters is the first in the series, six daughters adopted from different countries around the world, but a wealthy mysterious man. When he dies the sisters are given the information to find where they came from and any biological family they might have in the world.  I have them on my Kindle as we don't have access to the library at present because of the lockdown.

Tonight is the first Friday of the month and Friday Night with Friends

You can join in over here, Cheryll is out host once again. It is a fun way to spend the evening in this time of having to stay at home.

Happy weekend every one.

A bit of this and a bit of that

 I was going to write catching up again as it seems to be how most of my blog posts are these days. Not a lot of sewing has been happening here, I have been reading, doing a bit of gardening but do not have much energy as I am anaemic again, but I am heading in to Geelong tomorrow for an iron infusion and next week is the scheduled B12 injection, so all will be well.

Some photos I have taken

Anthology blocks from the last two weeks

Some hexie progress

A little progress on the mystery hexie quilt, I am not finished and a new tempting one has been put out by Jemimas Creative Quilting,

Progress on Tea and Cake, not the best photo! I need to take another photo as more progress has happened since this one.

I was given this book years ago and decided to try and make something from it. We have a postcard challenge at the Guild so I am attempting a postcard combining fabric and paper

this is the start, I need to get back to it! The teacups are from a serviette.

Signs of spring on the way in the garden.

Saturday I joined into a zoom session organised by Chooky, there were ladies from Australia, NZ, Canada, USA and Germany. I had a great time chatting, stitching and listening. It is wonderful to catch up with people we can't otherwise see during these lockdown times.

I sewed many hexagons together and lots onto the main tea and cake quilt top, many many more to go though.

I took the epp stars out of their tin recently and decided to give them a good starch and iron and then applique them onto squares, that plan has partly come to fruition, I have a pile to sew and a pile to take papers out of.

This was the moon we saw out over the Bay on Sunday evening, such a beauty.

I had better get off and do something, read a book, remove some epp papers, plenty to be doing here.

Happy stitching.

 

Where

 did the last week go, I seem to be asking myself this every week!! We have had fine days, overcast days and rainy days, typical weather for spring.

Monday another Storm at Sea block was made

I have started on some cat blocks for a quilt

More stars were finished

Wednesday saw another Anthology block completed

Thursday saw two Sylvia's Bridal Sampler blocks made

One called Friendship Quilt, the other The Friendship Quilt

I happily sewed away Friday evening and managed to get several things sewn on back to front, so some unsewing had to be done!

Love this view out the window

Some gardening happened in the week, the weeds got a bit of a fright!

The Aussie Hero quilt is nearly done, just the label to be written and a letter to go with the quilt.

Some stars got their edging stars.

Yesterday Chooky hosted another zoom party, several ladies came and went thru the day depending on what they had on. It was great to catch up with the ladies in the US, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Australia.

Lots of stitching, chatting and listening happened, I signed off at 5pm having joined in at about 9am. The ladies were still going when I signed off.

I managed to get this Old Time Kaleidoscope block this far, just have the white/cream edging to add and it is done. This is the last big block.

Last night I was all EPP'd out so did a little stitching on my sadly neglected Sew a little happiness every day project. This was a COVID project started by a lady on instagram. I still have a way to go, but then we are not out of the woods yet so I have time I figure! You can see the beautiful embroidery and stitching Sarah creates over at her blog. 

I have a fruit cake cooking in the oven and it smells wonderful so had better go and check on the progress.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, I am hoping to go and find a new geocache this afternoon, weather permitting.

Happy stitching.