Catching up!

Well our lovely time at St Leonard's is over and it is back to nearly normal!! I think we managed to do mostly taking and tea drinking but we did manage to get some sewing done but I couldn't blog thanks to Telstra and their confusing instructions so.....here is what we got up to..

this bag or lovely left over bits from the gorgeous Sharon of Lilabelle Lane has slowly been turned in to....

this...38 strips done and 33 left to go!! Phew!!

this is the quilt I have been repairing ....I am working on the last few hexies to fill the gaps...I am still having a problem with random..but I will  get there!!

Most mornings were like this....gray, howling wind and not much fun to be outside, but it was perfect weather.....

for finishing that book that hadn't been finished!!

Tuesday afternoon we went for a walk in between rain showers and it was really nice to be outside, we were watching the huge cloud travelling over in front of us, how it was changing as it moved across the city and I guess dropped it's load!

the sea was reasonably calm but we did get caught by a rain shower just before we got back inside.

after much crawling around on the floor Tania had her next project, a Halloween wall hanging sandwiched! Now for the hand quilting! No pressure though!! lol!

And these are my finishes for the time we were at the beach, baby hexies all done, Halloween table runner with the binding completed, two Christmas wall hangings with the binding completed, and a yellow/orange table runner completed. Sadly the raggy seams quilt has been sidelined for the moment, DH didn't like it, so I have to rethink, I now think I will put it together in a different way.

Our Wednesday night challenge for last month, unveiling last night, was to use the Accu GO cutter and make something, so I cut out the hexagons, hand sewed them together, then sandwiched, stitched, turned out....

and free range quilted around some of the flowers. I was very happy with the end result..it is amazing how you can go from thinking you don't have the time to get something finished to finishing it and having time to spare!

I had to do the happy dance to celebrate finishing the repair job on the quilt!! LOL!!

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.

On the road.....

Today Tania and I are heading off to St Leonard's for a few days R & R.....we stopped in Geelong to visit Red Desire, a beautiful shop we found last time through, run by the lovely Sophie,she is on the second level of the shopping centre and her shop is well worth a visit.

these are the little bottles I got at Sophie's shop, love them on the window sill.

We called in to the Blanket Box and met Zoe the owner and her Mum...who remembered Tania from last time, because she was sooooo excited to find French General fabric she had been looking for, for ages. We had a great browse in the shop and came home with this....

for me  a table runner with little stitcheries in the middle, surrounded by paper pieced shapes, little stitchery quilt labels, a fat quarter and a LED folding desk lamp!

Tania has a stash of William Morris fabrics and blue's and taupe's for a baby hexies project in the future and a lovely bottle of buttons.

We had a look at Clifton Springs - I hadn't been here before and found a great beach although it was a bit wild and windy today.......actually very wild and windy!!

there were 3 old piers along this part of the coast line, just the stumps remaining, we found out later one was a bathing pier with change rooms out at the end....separate changing rooms for men and women!! Another was where the steamer boats docked when they arrived from Melbourne......people came to take the waters and enjoy the sulphur mineral spa.....mineral water from here was put into green torpedo shaped bottles...was very interesting to read about this area.

The sea was roaring in!

Tania taking sea photos...it looks calm here but believe me it wasn't!

And finally this is the project I am attempting to work on today.........if I get around to it because it is now G & T time!! Cheers!!

A few weeks ago I was on facebook and had a look at the The Quilted Gumboot and was lucky enough to win one of their spot prizes

I won a $20 voucher but opted to get a surprise in the post and am now the proud owner of two new patterns - one dogs and kangaroo....not sure how a kangaroo comes from NZ but not to worry!  The other a raggy Christmas tree. Am keen to have a go at them!

Goodies from the post

I had a browse around last week and found some things I could NOT live without!!

Lovely goodies from Hatched and Patched....

A finish!!!

I finished this table cloth for Jenny for Halloween - she goes all out over in NZ, dresses up, has lollie bags for the visiting kids and decorates the house, so thought this might come in handy.

the skeletons glow in the dark!

this is an international piece - the top fabric is from the US, the backing from the LQS (Gisborne) the skeletons are from the UK!  Yay for internet shopping!!!

Tip toe thru the tulips

I had a lovely morning at Tellelaars Tulip Farm at Monbulk last Monday, great weather acres of tulips, was very busy though, the joys of the school holidays!

Such  lovely colours and shapes

tulips as far as you can see!

there were a lot of sculptures around the tulips - this one I loved - it is made with knives......

and this one has handles of spoons or forks on the chest, the lower part is mosaic pebbles sheeting I think! Very clever!

and we got to see a barn owl at one of the tents - this one was watching and listening to everything going on. A most beautiful bird.