Bellarine Quilters Quilt Show - photo heavy

This afternoon I went to do my duty hours at the Quilt Show and took some photos to share

Devonshire tea area with my tea towel quilt hanging 😁

Heart quilt made from left over blocks

My travel wall hanging from going to Baradine via as many painted silos and water tanks as we could find!

My Tea and Cake quilt, happily known as Tea and Toast!

Equilateral triangle quilts from our last years challenge

Hand painted Australian native birds

so many beautiful quilts to enjoy.

                

                                                              Happy stitching.

August Challenge

 

My first part of the challenge is completed

This quilt was started June 2021, it was a challenge from Ingrid. The hexies are all sewn by hand, the border machine appliqued on and binding sewn by machine too. It was quilted by Tracee from Hummingbird quilting, I am sure I said that in the last post! I am very happy to have it completed.

I have also finished 2 blankets, sewn the squares together and finished off with a crochet edge. One more to do and then they will go to KOGO.

That is me up to date, I hope to start on an Aussie Hero quilt tomorrow afternoon, but there is a call to the garden, David is putting in a wooden edge and the weeds have to be removed first and guess who needs to be going that! So far I have spent 6 hours out there - good to do when it is fine and sunny but think of all that wasted sewing time!!!

Happy stitching.

August Chook Shed Stitchers Challenge

 Another new month and another challenge, this month it is

Number three.

For me that is EPP and the Tea and Cake quilt.

I have been quietly stitching away at this when I had the time and last week I took the finished quilt top along on retreat and Tracee of Hummingbird Quilting very kindly quilted it for me so it was finished by the time I came home. How is that for wonderful service!!

Tracee has quilted with bees

aren't they great!

So now I need to trim and bind.

This month I am also going to try and make an Aussie Hero quilt, waiting to hear back about that.

Ok I am off now to trim the quilt then a cuppa and a little time with the wasgij.

Happy stitching.

Grand day out

Today I went out west to Colac with some wonderful quilty friends to the Colac quilt in

It was foggy on the way for a little while

Great banner for the Colac quilters.

The speakers were Margaret Mew and Judy Newman,  it was interesting to hear about their quilts and their quilty journey and see lots of quilts.

My angle for getting  photos was not good

I had a short walk outside at lunchtime to get some fresh air

The air was clear and refreshing - ready to continue for the afternoon

It was wonderful to see Tea and Cake, mine is still under construction!

 

                             

We saw some interesting skies on the way home

                             

Wonderful end to a great day.

As the footie is on TV I am off to sew.

Happy sewing.

Lake Burrumbeet

We jave been staying at Lake Burrumbeet for the last few days, we decided to have a little holiday to celebrate our 40th wedding  anniversary.

Who knew when I met David 44 years ago on a Top Beck long weekend tour to see the tulips in Amsterdam, we would find ourselves here.

Our youthful selves in New Zealand, c 1981

My anniversary surprise 😮 plus a beautiful ruby ring.

Blogger wants the photo to go upside down!! I will try and fix it once I get back to the laptop.

Our anniversary dinner last night near Lake Wendouree in Ballarat.

We have had very hot weather every day here, 36 deg C , that has given us some beautiful sunsets

Some stitching has happened here

And

And a little letter writing

We head home tomorrow via 4 country towns that have Adventure Labs for me to explore, hubby will sit in the car, he has no interest in the Ad Labs.

The temp is slowly rising again today heading for 34 degC, I am hoping for a cooler day tomorrow .

Happy stitching.