Progress

I am making headway with both the Tumbling charms quilt and the Halloween wall hanging

love the detail that pops up when you do the free range quilting on my secret project!!

binding on the Halloween wall hanging....hand sewing to be done....

reverse of the secret project FRQ

and now the binding is on the tumbling charms quilt, ready for hand sewing...so I have plenty to keep me busy!!  Happy sewing.

Sunday sewing

Well I have finally made it back to the sewing machine...I had a really good book and that HAD to be finished so I knew what happened!! So this afternoon I have been free range quilting on.....

...no not the dog, but he has been supervising then he left me for the comfort of the chair!!

this is a secret project for a swap so can only show a little bit for now

and this is another Halloween wall hanging to go to Jenny in New Zealand....between Tania and I , we will decorate the whole house!!  I have finished the FRQ, not have to sew in all the endy bits, and then we are on to binding....yay the end is in sight!!  Happy sewing!

Orangutans

I had a great afternoon out yesterday with Marg at a trivia afternoon organised by an amazing 10 year old boy Keegan.....he did all the organising.....wrote letters to companies and was given lots of palm oil free products for the raffle and prizes...got up and spoke to everyone there....he was wonderful! We had a fun afternoon...couldn't answer many questions though! Lol!!

Here we are manning or "wommaning" should I say, the Australian Orangutan Project stall, we sold lots of soft toys and stubbie holders!  Yay!!

Gearing up for the close up photo!!

Marg in her uniform! Concentrating on a question I think!

And.....Marg won first prize in the raffle!! I didn't have the camera out so I didn't get a photo of her happy dance!! Lol!!  We had a great afternoon, we were made very welcome and everyone was really friendly and Keegan raised over $1000 for the orangutans. He did a wonderful job!

Cooking,cooking.....

Each Friday at work we have morning tea provided (known as Fat Friday) by a particular group of people....and I am in the group who provides for tomorrow...so I thought it would be a good idea to do some baking to take along....not being a baker I didn't realise how long these things take! But I slaved away and ended up with

raspberry and yogurt cake...the three taste testers here today have given it the thumbs up...good to know when you try something new!!

banana bread...perfect for using up the bananas that have gone to the dark side and no one will touch them, let alone eat them!!

and cherry slice....a big lot of sweet goodness....chocolate, coconut, condensed milk, glase cherries, copha...mmmm....not the healthiest slice but at least it is only once a term!!

and at the risk of being given a hard time by Marg and Tania I have rearranged my hexies in to a new storage box! This way as I do 6 of one colour I can put it with a yellow hexie and they are ready to be made into a flower...just have to make some more yellow ones for the plan to work!! Lol!! I just like looking at the colours, It is interesting how at the moment the colours seem to be mostly blues and purples.  Happy sewing!

Hi Hip Hooray!!!

Today quilt being fixed, has gone to the quilters!!!! Yay!!!!

My assistant helped with the backing.....NOT.....but now it is all done and delivered! Now we wait to see what it comes out like. Kerry is going to do a meander all over!!

Meanwhile back at the ranch, after I had been outside trying to dig out more cape weed....a never ending job and one I will not win I know, but I have to try!!!, I continued sewing. But.....

how come the bunnies, and there are heaps of them, don't eat the cape weed???? That would be helpful, but then I guess they poop out the seeds and maybe that would encourage more to grow?? So maybe not so helpful!!

Anyway, I have made a Halloween sandwich,and two others I can't show yet...they are for a swap and secret! the Halloween wall hanging is going to Jenny in New Zealand...she will be Halloweened out by the time Tania and I have finished! lol!

trimmed off the baby quilt,

cut the fabric for the binding,

and started some batty free range quilting!!! Busy but happy afternoon! Happy sewing! 

FNWF

I had a great night last night at Marg's beautiful house, Tania and I made ourselves at home, we had yummy food to eat, dogs to entertain us, wonderful music and our sewing!! What more  could you want than to spend an evening with good friends? Sadly Tracee-Lee couldn't be with us as she had a prior commitment, maybe next month!!

my favourite food!!! Marg is good good to me (and the others!!)

my hexagons being sorted (don't know why the photo is like it is...looks like two for one!!Lol!)

Tania working away on her Halloween wall hanging...

Margaret working on her Christmas stitchery

Yep...I actually did some stitching on hexagons....

and got distracted by Jasmine.....

and had a cuppa....you can see Marg's beautiful little tumbler block quilts, she has made three for Blankets of Love to be sent off to Cheryll soon

Tania has made great progress with her hand quilting on the Halloween wall hanging

and now the girls are saying I am developing anal tendencies by putting my finished hexagons into the top of my new sewing caddy.....mmmmmmm.....have another plan for them now!!!  Hope you enjoyed FNWF you can see what others have been doing here. Happy sewing! ;-)

FNWF

Tomorrow night I will be getting together with Marg and Tania for an evening of fun with friends at Marg's place, find out who else is joining in over at Cheryll's place.  Happy sewing.