Last Saturday

 I was up bright and early (for me) and joined in with Chooky's zoom party, the girls had been sewing and chatting for a couple of hours by the time I got there.

It was lovely to sit and sew and catch up with people I haven't seen for a few years as well as the regular zoomers.

People came and went through the day depending on what else was happening.

I managed to attach the last three green and orange hexie flowers and then started on the dark purple fillers. By about 2pm my fingers were sore so I said goodbye to the ladies and went to have a cuppa and a read.

The Minions quilt is finally finished, I have been dithering over this all week!

Here is todays Anthology block

Friday 1st October is World postcard day, so I thought I would have a little play with fabric and stitches on the machine and create a postcard to send on the day. Just needs to have its edging finished off.

Here are all the kids dressed and ready to go

And a few hexie flowers for tea and cake, which I keep calling tea and toast!

Right I have seen a new quilt idea and I am keen to have a go at it before dinner has to happen.

Happy stitching.

 

FNWF and Zoom

 Friday night I joined in with virtual friends to stitch away together, I was lucky to be able to start in the afternoon, so I cut sashings and finished off this quick top, the panel was given to me by Ingrid.

Simple but I am happy with it.

Then I put the sashings and corner stones onto the batik quilt, it is a bit brighter than it looks in this photo.

Saturday I joined Chooky and friends for a morning zoom session

It is always wonderful to catch up with these ladies from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and USA. Great conversation, we manage to put the world to rights and see many wonderful projects being worked on. Time just flies by.

Once I had a cuppa and got my needle threaded, I finished off these three hexie flowers for the Mystery hexie quilt, I think I have another three to make.

I have been for a long walk this morning, along the beach and then up and around the new subdivision behind us, then back home. It is spring like again today and really pleasant to be outside.

Think I might go sandwich the batik quilt this afternoon.

Happy stitching.

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.

 

Once again catching up

 The last couple of weeks has seen me with my nose in a book, I read Spring Cottage by Mary Ellen Taylor and then found there were 2 other books in the series, Winter Cottage and Honeysuckle Season, so decided to read then too.

Some sewing has been happening, Anthology blocks

Last weeks and

This weeks.

Flying geese left over from the quilt were joined together

into two pieces and quilted.

After some worrying SLOW mail delivery these beautiful machine embroideries arrived from Tracee of Hummingbird Quilting. This is the start of an Aussie hero quilt.

I made some flying geese to go with them

and did some baking, slightly over cooked on the edges, but it tastes good, biscuit base with nuts and condensed milk on the top.

This week I had to get moving as I had a mailing deadline to meet, this is the start of the Aussie Hero quilt, requested by a submariner. He wanted old school naval tattoos.

Luckily we had a fine morning in the week and I could sandwich outside.

The  squirrel popped up in the week and I made a zippy bag from the quilted flying geese pieces quilted last week

blogger decided this photo needed to be turned around

and inside.

the Aussie Hero quilt is finished, and this morning it went into the post, one day before the due date. Phew!!!

Just love Tracee's machine embroideries.

Slow stitching is happening on Tea and Cake, I have lots of hexies to join together here.

And in between times more hexies are being made for the Mystery hexie quilt.

Tonight is Friday Night with Friends

a lovely evening of a virtual sewing with friends.

You can sign up here.

I am off to sort out what I will do this evening.

Happy stitching.

Leaving on a jet plane....NOT!

 Well my bag was all pack and we were ready to go and then Dan the Man said NO! Lockdown for a week for you. We had planned a trip to Port Douglas with Adam and Beth and Beth's parents, but that was not to be. We will have to wait for another time. The virus has descended on Victoria again, thanks to some furniture removalists who came here and South Australia while they were infectious. 

my bag is now unpacked and all put away until next time.

This week has been a bit of a squirrel week, things I had planned to do have not happened and other things have taken their place. ( Did you send your squirrels over Lou ?) It is all good as a finish is a finish regardless of the day it gets done.

Garfield is finally finished and has gone to the Bellarine Quilters collection, it will go to a new home later this year. This fabric came from Fiona. 

This quilt top was also made by Fiona, quilted by Joan of Faraway quilting and bound by me. It will go to the SJOG oncology ward when I can do another delivery.

Also for SJOG are

these two quilts, tops made by Wendy from the Geelong Guild finished by me.

This weeks Anthology blocks, only a small amount of unsewing required 😉

One more border was attached to the Guild Mystery Quilt, I think I will do one more plain border and then it will be done.

For some reason I got out the cropped diamonds and sewed the two separate bits I had together, then added a few more, I think this is going to take a long time to get some size to this one. I am happy to be using up scraps though.

I was listening to the last disc of a talking book so decided to stamp some more scraps and cut them out, good to have a pile of scraps gone.

I spent quite a lot of time preparing hexies to take away, now I have lots to sew together, no prep needed for a while!

Today I went for a walk, did some grocery shopping to fill the empty fridge and then sat and read a book, The Paris Library, what a great book, I really enjoyed it.

Today has been a bit of a lazy day!

Happy stitching.