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.

Updating, catching up...and failing

 Here we are nearly at the end of the week, we have had the whole range of weather, fine and sunny, cold raining and wet and even a thunder storm, but the rainbows have been beautiful.

I have been sandwiching and quilting

Well I have been here for an hour and I cannot upload any more photos. so I will come back and try again later.

Woops

Today was the day to make a block to take to Guild...I have the pattern and the fabric, just not the ability to get it together correctly!! The block is going into a Quilt that will be raffled at the Geelong Agricultural Show in October.

I was too busy watching a movie and not concentrating! Just created a new block!

The one on the left is how is was supposed to be done.

I have been slowly doing some quilting on the Christmas quilt.

This morning when I rode down to St Leonards these guys were doing their morning ablutions and keeping a close eye on the returning fishermen.

Yesterday I came out of the shopping centre in Geelong to see this rainbow, sadly the colours are not as bright in the photo as they appeared to the eye.

Happy stitching.

Rainbows

have been going past us all afternoon, a distraction from sewing!!

this one was just over the road but I was too slow to get to the pot of gold!!

There have been lots of beautiful rainbows , sadly they do not show up as well in a photo

Mmmmm, sprung trying to take a photo!!! That is the what are you doing look!!

This afternoon I finished off the insert for the weighted cushion..it is a bit small...but heavy, I filled the sections with plastic pellets used for bear making, then had to carefully sew, not sewing any stray pellets. 

front

back...I need to get a regular insert I think to puff it our a bit more and make it more cushion like. Might have a play with some polyester wadding and see what I can do.

Happy sewing.

Learning curve!

Well yesterday I trimmed the edges of the hexie quilt and got it ready to bind, then I found 2 half hexies were missing on one side so unpicked two from the trimmings and hand sewed then on, don't know if that is the right way to do these things but it is now done! Then I discovered some of the stitching on the hexies on the edge were coming undone! Mmmmmm.....not impressed with that!

Gaps in the hexies!

stitching extra bits on to fill the gap!

this seam must have come undone when the quilt  top was stretched tight for quilting..

a very heavy rain shower passed over as I was sitting sewing

I am hoping all the loose bits are fixed as I am now onto sewing on the binding...YAY!!!! I had to move the sewing machine to the kitchen bench so I had the room to manage the quilt...it is 84 x 88 inches so is heavy and takes up a lot of space.....to be honest I need to tidy up my sewing desk but I think it was easier to sew here. Just as I finished a most amazing rainbow appeared outside the window, it was only about 1km away, I don't think I have seen one that close before

Isn't that amazing? Sometimes nature does the most beautiful things when you least expect it! Off to do some more sewing now!

Happy sewing!!