Catching up once again

 Time is roaring past for me this year, here we are June already.

Things have been happening here

This little quilt is finished

This little quilt is having it's binding sewn on today

This KOGO blanket is finished, another is having squares sewn together

another small quilt is finished

time has been spent at the playground (this is from a few weeks ago, I forgot the camera yesterday)

Here he is with a new haircut, he got half a hair cut and decided that was enough, so Mum had to try and finish it off at home. His jumping has really improved and he loves the trampoline.

Last weekend I was up early to go to the Colac Quilt In

A glimpse of the sun before the rain came

The first speaker was Emma Jean Jansen and she showed us many of her beautiful quilts and explained her method of making and quilting. I didn't get quilt photos as we were at the side and they whipped through quickly.

The second speaker was Jodi Carlton from RicRac, she was a very entertaining speaker and her felt toys are just beautiful.

I was sitting at the table on the very end here #13.

These were the traders and yes some purchasing was done!

Lovely ladies I was sitting with, Karen and Sue

The lake as I was heading back to the car. The Quilt In is held at the Bowling Club and it is a great venue.

Last week I had a couple of late afternoon walks

The water was very calm and quiet

and I watched the moon come up over the water

Last week we also had the grand fur babies staying

One ChowChow hiding in the plant!

Today I sewed and unsewed the foundation paper pieced block three times - it is finally finished, not perfect as it should be, but finished.

It was quite a challenge.

Sashiko is still being done, has taken a back seat to the KOGO blankets just now but more will happen next week.

I decided to introduce some colour. I also am not happy with the thread that came with the panel, cotton Japanese Sashiko  thread as it splits and doesn't look good, still thinking about that one, any suggestions will he gratefully received.

Another little quilt finished.

I think that is enough for me just now, we are off to Queensland next week to try and find some warmer weather.

Happy stitching.

FNWF

 Not a huge lot of sewing was done last night, I did get the second quilt sandwiched

my assistant was smelling the roses

I did a little hand sewing while watching a Jackie Chan movie last night

Yes quarter inch hexies - I had a mad moment - I m making a small project so it isn't too much sewing, I need to cover more papers, maybe tonight.

This morning I went for a walk with the dogs and Mary a quilting friend, Mary lives at Indented Head just along the coast from us and a friend of hers lives closer to Portarlington. So we decided to see if we and the dogs could walk the distance. Tira wanted a swim on the way

Looking back from where we had come. We did make the distance and had a cuppa with Mary's friend, we walked 7.46kmaccording to my phone and blew my steps quota out of the water for the day.

I am off, I hear a dog whining at the back door, no doubt she wants to come back in!

Happy stitching.

This Week

 has been a slow week, lots of resting, a little gardening, while trying to avoid the mossies, and a little sewing.

This week another Anthology block was done

The piano keys border was put onto the string quilt, and has been moved to the to be quilted pile.

I went to see Adam and Beth yesterday and had to take a photo to Tira, she is so cute

and Hank with his chewey in his mouth.

a little sleepy bear.

this poppy has survived the heavy winds and rain in the garden, I think because it has grown up into the tree and is supported

signs of more flowers to come

we had a rain shower last night followed by a double rainbow, the colours were beautiful

I found some Christmas fabric so made two mug rugs.

That is all from me this week

Happy stitching.

This and that

Last week or was it earlier this week hubby and I drive up to Gisborne to collect a quilt Traceee of Hummingbird Quilting. She has done a beautiful job, I am very happy.

I have been stitching away on the hexies and have made good progress

I started some knitting in the car on the way to Gisborne, 

the colour is more watermelon  it looks very bright in the photo 📸 , this will be a dish cloth. I found two balls of wool.when packing and sorting so thought I would get knitting. 

A few more cropped diamonds have been sewn together 

slowly but surely making progress, I have lots more scraps to stamp and cut.

The footie is on this afternoon, Richmond is playing so Adam is here with the dogs  Tira is watching the world go by outside

Hank is patrolling and checking everything in the house

I had better be off now and do some stitching.

Happy days.

Sewing room overload

I walked in here this morning and was a bit overwhelmed..there is stuff everywhere. So I decided if I record a kind of list of things to do here, it might motivate me to get on with slowly chipping away at the mess.

Stuff as you go in the door

Two quilts that have come from a lady who has had to down size and had donated all her quilts, tops and some fabric to go to oncology quilts. Underneath that is a quilt top made with six inch squares, I decided it was a good idea to sew them together last Friday night, now it needs backing and batting and quilting. 

This was a huge quilt top given to me by a friend, her mother made it and it was found after her mother passed, my friend wants it to go to the oncology ward. Jill very kindly divided the quilt top in half and unpicked. My job now is to give them the gray borders, applique it in place, (even pinning in place would be good at the moment!!  ) and get them ready for quilting.

This tub contains fabric I have been given to make oncology quilts, love the pink fabric on top, am thinking of a whole fabric quilt for that one as it is stunning fabric. The orange bag contains strips, it seems to be the same level, despite many strip blocks being made out of it!

One day I am going to get this chair clear so I can actually sit in it!!! At the moment there is an unfinished quilt top on it and another quilt awaiting quilting...poor thing has been waiting for over a year! Oops just seen another unfinished quilt top on the back of the chair!

Oh dear!! Fabric to put away, patterns to put in folders, a quilt top and a container with One Block Wednesday blocks I need to get trimmed and sewn together.

But some POSITIVE news, Susan of Susan's Sewing Space used this fabric as quilt backing and I commented on it as there is a Chowchow included with the dogs!! Happy smile!

Chows are not often found on fabric so Susan very kindly sent me some, I think this will become a tote bag one day!

Mmmm yes well, I though my room was under control but obviously not. I am going to try and do one thing a day to get it back in order. Just take baby steps and see how I go. I was very lucky to inherit (read that as say I was having!!) this room when we moved here, the previous owner (male) had this room as his office/study so it has wonderful shelving, which you can see I have filled!! Today I want to get the tram lady up on the wall. That will open up a little space there.

I have been slowly plugging away at the knitted rectangles, the top 5 rows are all joined up, I just realised yesterday I didn't have the rows straight and am missing 2 rectangles on the bottom row, so will have to go search for something to go there.

I have just finished reading this book, an amazing story about a childhood in a devout Mormon family, controlled by a father with bipolar. It was gripping and very hard to put down.

Ok enough waffling on, I am off to do something about the sewing room!

Wish me luck!!