City Adventures

Tania and I ventured in to the city to day to have a  look at the 5000 Poppies display at Federation Square. It was in a tiny place, glassed in and long and narrow

Love this display with the hat and boots

Tania on the other side of the display area...I was talking to a lady from Bairnsdale, her group had made many poppies and were in the display somewhere! She was pleased to see them...

this is what it is all about, knitted, crochet, felted poppies for a huge display for ANZAC Day 2015. Tania and I have the needles out and have made a few...lovely to make in memory of a special person or people. Some poppies have a tag on the back and are dedicated to a particular person. Very emotional!

Yep I was there!!

There were many of these hanging rows of poppies back along the display area, they looked amazing!

We wandered along Flinders Street with me taking toy voyagers photos, we spied a man in Navy uniform with a bugle, so though something was going on. We had a look inside St Paul's and saw several ministers coming out...Tania asked what was happening...the bells were also ringing....Tania was told there would be a short service on the steps outside for Remembrance Day..so we decided to hang around and have a look.

At 11oclock,, the police stopped the traffic on the intersection of  Flinders and Swanston Streets and the bugler and a war veteran walked out and stood in the middle of the intersection....he played the Last Post and there was a minutes silence

the regular Army were in attendance too...

big screen over in Federation Square.....after the service we wandered off to find L'uccello to have a look at....

we turned the wrong way and got distracted by the back of St Paul's...such a peaceful looking courtyard.......

then we found Cathedral Arcade.....on the opposite side of the road..nothing wrong with my sense of direction!!! Lol!!  But isn't this a beautiful arcade? The ceiling is amazing!

Then we found the right place and Tania was in heaven.....we spotted the French General fabric the minute we walked in the door!!!  One happy camper!! 

Beautiful windows in L'uccello....

and one very happy shopper!!! we had a great day out, found some new things, had some new experiences and want to go back and explore some more another day!!

Happy sewing!

Sunday morning

What a lovely way to spend a little time in the morning, relaxing, cuppa handy and a little stitching!!

enjoying the stitching and the view - although it was a bit cold and rainy!

Sewing on the binding coming along nicely!

This is what happens when I decide to get creative and make up a pattern to go with my stitchery,

pieces cut the wrong size, a row that doesn't fit and then another row that still doesn't fit!! Ah well back to the drawing board! I think I forgot to add seam allowance!

A bit of tweaking and guessing and hoping and here we are!! Not super correct but I am happy with it!

Happy sewing!

Long weekend

I have had a wonderful weekend at St Leonard's with Tania, we had all kinds of weather, sunny and calm, sunny and windy, windy and rain, cold and warm, it was such a beautiful day today we didn't want to come home!!

Tania definitely didn't want to head home!! "Why can't I stay here?" Sorry no can do today!! Lol!!

We did get some sewing done on the cold and rainy and windy day

Tania cutting squares for me

The binding is on the mini quilt!!! I went off to take the toy voyagers to Point Lonsdale and Tania stayed back to quilt her mini quilt and get the binding on...and she did really well!!

I am having a lesson in paper piecing and making flying geese!!

Oops...the camera battery has gone flat!!!

Love, love, love the beach at Point Lonsdale, windy but still warm

things on the beach a St Leonard's...

Back at Point Lonsdale - could be by the beach every day, it is so good!!

Happy sewing!

Halloween

Hey have a look at the gorgeous bunch of Halloween revellers!

We all look a bit serious here....probably worrying about Tracee's brain falling out...or her eye sliding off her head!! You can't see the top of Tracee's head....it was bandage and brains!!

we had spooky food....I tried to make spooky eyes but they came out like boobs instead! Lol! At least people still ate them!

Tracee made some amazing cupcakes

Donna found some real Halloween lollies from the American shop....

and Carol pondered on the placement of her blocks...she had started work on this project ages ago and now has come back to it . The room we meet in has been renovated and now is the Maternal Health offices in the day, so now we have a comfy couch to sit on if we want to!

Happy Sewing!

Walking the dog

Today we decided to take a trip up to Ballarat and take the dog for a walk around the lake. It looks wonderful (the lake) being full of water but it was very cold - felt like the wind was coming off the snow somewhere....

..we headed off this way....

...saw Mum swan and the babies on our travels..the babies are so cute!!

...and believe it or not I was walking with DH and the dog but they disappeared from sight when I stopped to take a photo...we are walking not sight seeing apparently!! lol!! Ah well!!!!

I have finished 2 mug rugs for Sylvia my friend who now lives in Ballarat so dropped one off today...especially for the run up to Christmas...no worries Shez you are safe this time!!

this one I posted up last week. Was very happy with this one! 

Happy sewing!

FINISHED!!! (well except for the label) LOL!!

Yahoo!!!! Binding is done!!!

Happy sewing!!

Happy purchase

I was up at Kerry's (Black Forest Quilting) collecting the hexie quilt in the week and found this

a children's cot quilt...ready cut, has front, back and wadding all ready to go...even the edges have been cut, so all you have to do is the diagonal stitching, then join the blocks together! How good is that??

all the bits together.....

and the binding is going on the hexie quilt beautifully!!

Happy sewing!