Woo Hoo! A finish!!

The  "Collingwood" quilt is finished, labelled and on it's way! I had  to squash it into the box, I thought putting the fluffy throw on the back was a good idea until it came time to fold and pack and boy was it a squash to get it into the box!! The air got a little blue around here!!

here is the back of the quilt

and the front.

Oops, I have done something wrong with this photo but never mind, this is the laundry bag I made for the same service man, apparently the washing is put in the bag, the top tied and the whole lot goes in the washing machine and then the dryer and then back to the person who owns it. The normal bags are green, blue or brown (from memory) so imagine trying to find your washing in a whole heap of the same colour bags!! This is a lot easier to find and much more personal. There are a heap more pictures at the Aussie Hero Quilts and laundry bags blog to have a look at. Some people have made amazing bags!

And my poppies are off in the post to 5000 poppies today a little contribution to their large project! 

and now I am off to fix up these little bits of fabric that have ended up on the wrong side of the raggy seams quilt,

little suckers were a bit hard to control!! Lol!!

Happy sewing!

Busy afternoon

I have been busy sewing a raggy seams quilt, it came in a precut pack and I thought would have gone together really easily, mostly it did but the little cut edges had a mind of their own and didn't always go in the direction I wanted them to!

One raggy seams quilt, still have a couple of bloopers to fix underneath.

We had a couple of early morning visitors, I had to go out and tell them off as they were chewing on the window frames and tapping on the windows....

I told them the restaurant was closed!

A lovely package arrived this morning from the lovely Barb from  here , I love these buttons and had to get some after I had given in to temptation and bought the magazine below!!

Yum, yum!!

So now something else to add to my do to list!!

Love the reindeer,

and the pre printed label has arrived to put on the Collingwood quilt so will get to that tonight. Well I had better get back to fixing the Raggy seams quilt,

Happy Sewing!

Work in progress

Work in progress for the day today...I am attempting a raggy seams quilt to go downstairs here at St Leonard's, but I have to watch over this fabric as Tania is coveting it!! Have to check her bags before we go home!! Lol!!

slowly getting the diagonal quilting done in between chatting and cups of tea!

hexies are all sewn together.....by hand....now to resort to the machine as this needs to be finished soon!!

So as we were having a sewing day.....we went shopping!!! Tania and I have decided to restart an idea we had a while ago, where we write up the craft we have done each day and we attempt to do at least 10 minutes a day.....will keep us motivated we reckon!! Lol!! So we got a journal each, I found some Xmas cards ( I am not ready for Xmas yet!!) and a little candle. 

Tania bought me this beautiful mug, flowers on one side.....

and butterflies on the other...really pretty isn't it?

then we went over the road to the crystals etc shop and came out with another candle - cinnamon scented, perfume, incense, and little container to burn the cone incense in. Not bad for a day in sewing!!! Lol!!

Back to work......

and Tania is working on her secret project, she is busy with quilting here. 

Guess who wanted to come inside??? Not with that huge drool my man!!!! Maybe later.