Last day of January

                                    

This challenge for January has been completed

I have made the blocks for the Guild Mystery Challenge

A few more to be trimmed

I have finished the Bellarine Quilters Modern Triangles challenge, fewer blocks than the pattern wanted but I wanted it finished! 

The quilt has gone to Joan to be quilted.

The Aussie Hero quilt top is finished, I have just sandwiched it out  the back deck, which was a bit hot

Next time I need to drag the table into the shade.

I had a walk with Beth and Finn yesterday, we had a play on the swing on the way back

It was a beautiful day to be out and about

I am happy to have had a productive month and am looking forward to seeing which number Deana pulls from the hat for February. 

Happy stitching.

Still at home

 We have had the lockdown extended for another 7 days....hopefully that is enough to stop this variant of the virus from spreading.

I have been doing some sewing and a lot of reading, I finished three Harry Bosch novels this week, once I get my nose into them, that is me gone for the day.

But some sewing has happened

Schoolgirl Sampler has had her problems fixed and two borders added, two more to go

The Drunkards Path quilt I made at Baradine has had two borders added and now is in the to be quilted pile

The Guild Mystery quilt has had it's last border added and is also in the to be quilted pile.

A little more progress on Tea and Cake

This weeks Anthology blocks are done

Out in the garden the other day I noticed the jasmine flowering, a bit early I thought, but I have some in the sewing room and it smells wonderful every time I walk in.

Margaret Mew had a destash sale on Instagram and I was able to buy a quilt top, on the right, with beautiful Japanese fabrics and linen and on the left a large backing piece, so for very little outlay I have a quilt ready to be added to the quilting pile. 

I am off now to sew together 4 x 23 half square triangles together for the next Schoolgirl Sampler border. Might put an audio book on at the same time.

Stay safe.

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.

 

Back to reality

 Normal life has resumed after all the excitement of a special birthday.

Catching up, well blogger has put these in back to front but that is ok,

Ingrid gave me this beautiful little doll yesterday, she has come from New Zealand, she has a beautiful dress and knitted cardy, crochet beret and a tiny teddy, she is so cute.

And this beautiful mini quilt, Broken Dishes pattern with Baptist fan quilting, how special is that?

I had an afternoon session last week making hexies for the Tea and Cake quilt when I should have been making an Anthology block, I completely forgot! I enjoyed the meditative action of gluing the hexies.

Blogger has this one upside down for some reason, these are the bigger blocks for Tea and Cake.

a new hexie block has been started for the Hexie Mystery Quilt

progress so far, I have just finished sewing on the brown and yellow pieces

In the week I started on an Aussie Hero quilt, the request was for black with a red border, included on the black was to be a tank, the riding sun, parachuting winds, poppies a person on a parachute, an armoured personnel carrier and anything relating to things being dropped out of planes with parachutes! Blocks all joined up.

One of the smaller feature fabric blocks for Tea and Toast

Star blocks for the Guild Mystery quilt. These are now joined on and awaiting another border.

I am off now to put some poppies onto the Aussie hero quilt.

Happy stitching.

Friday

 Today it is currently 13 deg C, sunny no wind, thank goodness but cold, we are only expecting a high of 15 deg C today, the reason for my interest in the temperature is that at 11.30 our power goes off and does not come on again until 3.30 this afternoon. The power company need to do some urgent works apparently. So the machine sewing I had thought about doing today will not get done, maybe some hand sewing will happen instead, or some geocaching if I can persuade hubby to come with me!! 

Some sewing has been happening along with tidying, yep that scary word! Amazing what you find when you have a bit of a tidy!!😄

we have had some beautiful sunsets in the last week the camera really does not do it justice

the zippy bag is finished, it took me ages to get the zip on, one side goes really well and then it takes me ages to get my head around how to position the fabrics for the opposite side!

Two Anthology blocks for this week, the one on the left had much unsewing and eventually I remade the top and bottom sections and it looked much better and was the correct size. 

two more stars are made for Betty's Medallion

and four stars are made for the Guild Mystery Quilt

Ingrid sent me this beautiful book as we had both admired the quilt on the cover

this is the centre block, I am using one and a quarter inch hexies, so it will grow quite quickly. (Not that I need another project of course!!)

I had better be off and do what I need to do before the power goes off

Have a wonderful weekend and happy stitching.

Retreat day 1

Day one has come and gone, we had a good trip up here to Gisborne , sewing started once we were settled, I got the borders sewn into the Guild Mystery Quilt and then had to unpick them all the sewing as I had sewn them on the wrong way around 😖

The borders put on the right way for the Guild Mystery Quilt

My heap of soon to be flying geese for the Sawtooth stars

Maxine has finished her pretty Australian flowers quilt, the binding went on yesterday.

I am off to the iron to press all the flying geese units. 

Happy stitching.

Business seems to have returned

This last week has flown by, the sewing groups I go to have all started up again, combine that with swimming twice a week , life seems very busy and always somewhere to go, which is a wonderful thing, but sometimes I just like to be at home. I wonder if that is a hangover from COVID I have slowed down and kept busy at home and am happy to keep doing so! Sounds very anti social doesn't it!!

This week

One more Schoolgirl Sampler block

The top three rows joined on to the middle section

More SGS blocks

One more for Anthology, not quite right but I am happy with it. 

I started another block but that ended up in the bin it just just wouldn't cooperate 😀

One block for Sylvia's Bridal Sampler, this one with the dreaded y seams.

The blocks and below are this months blocks for the Guild Mystery quilt, I have no idea how these are going to go together so it is a bit hard to choose colours. I guess it will work out as the months go by.

Two more blocks for the Schoolgirl Sampler 

Last Sunday the sun came out after a really wet Saturday so I went out on the front deck and pinned one of Fiona's quilt tops.

And here it is finished. This quilt will go to the Oncology ward once I can deliver there again. Thank you Fiona, it is a beautiful quilt.

I am off now to pin another quilt I think, but first I have to cut the backing and wadding so some crawling around the floor will happen first.

Happy stitching.