FNWF

I had the pleasure of spending FNWF with the lovely Tracee and Marg

I started with this

And finished up with these 

Good job done. 

Very nice to spend an evening with these wonderful friends.

Happy stitching.

Here and there

 I have been visiting Finn and his family and having walks with them when we time our walks together

we have had play time at home

and watched Finn venture into eating solids!

We have had hot sunny days, some even went in swimming, a bit cold for me yet

the pelicans enjoyed the bits from the fish cleaning station, I think the pelican on the right might have been eating squid

I had a walk along the sea front in Geelong one day and enjoyed the bollards again

these two are looking a bit the worse for wear sadly

we have had some cooler and wet weather too.

Today I delivered my quilt to West Geelong for the Quilt Exhibition of the Guild starting tomorrow

the bookcase quilt is all finished.

I had a walk around and in the Botanic Gardens on the way home

Well blogger has moved these all around so they are mixed up!

back in St Leonards walking

on the walk around the Botanic Gardens the fruit bats are snoozing in the pine trees

a bit of a fuzzy zooming in photo 😀

a big old tree I liked 😀

beautiful flowers in the dry garden section

in one of the hot houses

and again

they had a kowhai tree in flower in the gardens, although it was labelled a tree from Chile, the nectar feeding birds love these flowers

part of a sculpture in the gardens, sadly I chopped it's head off!!

seed pods from an interesting tree, no seeds though

this beautiful stag fern? was in the fernery.

I am currently working on an Aussie Hero quilt, the request was for Staffordshire terriers and the ship  crest - hope he likes blue!!

the next one is for Tank Evans from Surfs Up. This requires a large applique - next weeks job!

A little progress has been made on the modern triangles, a challenge at the Bellarine Quilters

these were mostly foundation paper piecing

A little more has happened on the Daylesford quilt top

and the cropped diamonds are coming along slowly

I called in to Heights sewing centre after dropping off my quilt, I had a voucher to spend ( lucky me) and found these plus some quilting templates to have a play with

went to the bike shop and got a comfy seat for my bike ( I hope!!)

and I have started reading this book...phew are you still awake??

I am off to continue on the AH quilt.

Happy stitching.

FNWF

I am late getting this post done, too busy being a tourist! 😁

I have been doing  some stitching on the cropped diamonds

On the plane over here I got up to 20 rows and now I have 26  slow but steady progress.

Thank you Cheryll for hosting us this night.

FNWF

I sat in the sewing room and cut out the stamped cropped diamonds.

I am happy I managed to cut all I had stamped, took me the best part of 3 hours!!

one label was also sewn on 😁

Today I have been for a walk with Adam and Finn

was a little wet and cold

but there was time for photos  then we had to move otherwise Finn wakes up!!

safe from the rain

this was Thursday when we last went for a walk.

the dogs are visiting again this afternoon.

You can see what the other Friday nighters created over at Cheryll's blog, link on the last post.

Happy stitching.

Purchases from Scrub Stitching and FNWF

 Here it is the start of May already, which means tonight is Friday Night with Friends hosted by Cheryll. You can sign up over at her blog and join in tonight.

This week I put together the remaining Australian animals blocks and made a quilt top for Finn, I need to get something soft for the backing.

Next week I am going on retreat to Gisborne, so I have sandwiched the quilt below I was given to finish off for Oncology

the quilt below I made

and another I was given to finish off.

I also got out the knitted blocks Jenny had started to sew together when she was here and got the blanket all sewn together, now I need to crochet a border around the edge and it will be ready for KOGO, they are in need of blankets this time of the year, so I need to get the other two bags of squares I have here sewn together too.

I bought some fabric when I was away

I couldn't leave these panels in the shop, Raewyn and I stopped at the Crafters Cottage in Coonabarabran on out way to Baradine. These panels were too nice to leave behind!

Driving through Corowa Raewyn spotted a quilt shop, so we parked and went to have a look

I had to take this and the panel below home, they are perfect for Aussie Hero quilts

and this panel will make a wonderful advent calendar for Finn

and this fabric is for a project I have in the back of my mind 😉

and I found this lovely key ring in with my bag of goodies. There was so much to look at in this shop, it made a wonderful break from driving.

I received this great bag of strips from Marina, so soon they will be stamped and cut up for the cropped diamonds quilt top

I have this pile to cut waiting attention, so I had better be off and get them done.

Happy stitching.