Happy Day

I have been down to the St Leonards community space today for sewing and craft group. Some of the ladies were interested in making a 1600 quilt...so we were all to start today but some ladies went off to the Biggest Morning Tea so two of us started in the morning and one after lunch, one is still to get jelly rolls and another didn't turn up.

starting off on the long first seam...

mmm...pile does not seem to be getting smaller down there....

Linda is behind that machine sewing away....

and at 1.30...(we started at 9.30  and had an hour for lunch)..... she was finished...one happy camper!! Lovely colours here...

and this is my effort....Christmas fabric...very happy with the results...one of the other ladies who had been to the morning tea started after lunch and is making hers with batiks! Very yummy!! We went home at 3pm and at that stage she had 2 more seams to do...have since phoned her and she is finished and very happy!! So a happy day all round!!

Happy sewing.

Up and down.....up and down...

Today I have been gathering boxes of kitchen things from downstairs and bringing them up, and then deciding where they go in the new kitchen..I have moved the cups three times...but can't move them again as the other places they were are now full!! I also had line dancing class this morning so feel like I have done loads of exercise!! We are still waiting on the tiler...new eta is 8am Thursday..we shall see....we need the tiles done in the kitchen and bathroom, then the flooring can go down...not easy for the builder coordinating the different tradies, especially when they ring him at 6am on the day they are due to work saying they can't come!! Anyway lots should be happening this Thursday and Friday.
I decided I needed to sit and sew for a while this afternoon...so have been playing with the photos for the Aussie hero quilt

joined these guys together...

..then these, added a bit, cut off a bit....

then these...

oops...calculations out a bit here...more trimming required....

.....ta dah!!!!  All together.....

...and then some borders...next thing to do is add some white letters....maybe tomorrow....

the I joined the chevrons together...first two rows beautiful.....second two rows I had one back to front.....bugger!!!! Off to do some unsewing now!!! Or maybe I put the photos in between and pretend that is the pattern???? Lol!!

Happy sewing.

Surprise gift

At Geelong  quilt in yesterday I was surprised with a lovely out of the blue gift from  Tracee......who is one super busy lady, so it makes this all the more special....

..tiny needles and tiny stitches....a special knitting brooch.....thank you Tracee you are a wonderful, thoughtful friend...I love it. I feel very special!

Happy sewing.

Geelong Quilt In (Very photo heavy again)

Yesterday I met up with lovely sewing friends and many, many other sewers at the Geelong Patchwork and Quilters Quilt In. I think there were 305 people there...was a big event!! The first speaker fo rth eday was Cathryn Barbagallo talking about modern quilts, the second was Kathy Doughty from Material Obsession...she was a very interesting person to listen to

Kathy explaining her quilts...

one of Kathy's quilts.....my camera is playing up so the photo isn't too good..

busy stitchers....

check out the concentration over there...

this young lady is so hard to get a photo of...she is sneaky....but lovely.....I have lots of back of heads photos!!! Lol!!

More concentration....

Shez went from this....

to this..Lol!!!  Hope you don't mind me pinching your photo Jo?? Couldn't resist...worn out from all the excitement!!

we had a Gail Pan swap today...

Marg with her lovely swap from Shez....more on that later...

Ann with  her swap...

Christine with her swap from yours truly ...Gail Pan table runner...

and two pin cushions...not such a great photo...

Ann with her swap...

Jo with her swap...not sure who from I am sorry..

Lyn with hers....

and Barb with hers. made by Jo I think....we had a giggle as Barb received the same patter she had made...but a little larger and in different colours...

Shez with  her swap....more on this soon...

Kim with her lovely swap from Lyn...

look at these two cheeky faces!!!!  They made the same thing for the swap and received each others!! We had a good giggle over that...

All the swap goodies together....very clever people have been at work here....

Here we all are...waiting...waiting for the photo to be taken...

I had a wonderful day, friends from all over gathered for stitching, shopping, swapping, laughter, listening, and a wonderful catch up. Thank you ladies.

Happy sewing.

FNSI

I am a little late but here are my FNSI results

my secret sewing...two little pincushions....with Gail Pan designs....ready for the swap tomorrow....

I also finished one strip of knitting and have started on another. This will be made into a KOGO blanket in the fullness of time!!

You can pop over to Wendy's blog and see what the other Friday Nighters got up to. Thank you for hosting Wendy.

Happy sewing.

FNSI

WooHoo!! Tonight is Friday Night Sew In where you get on your jamies, get a drink and nibbles and sit and sew in the company of like minded sewers!! You can sign up or see what others have sewn over the weekend over here at Wendy's..she is our lovely host.

Tomorrow I am off to a Quilt in Day organised by the Geelong Quilt and Patchwork Guild......today I went to help set up the hall, I was a bit late as I got lost on the way.....still finding my way around this area......they are expecting 300 people...should be an interesting day!!!  On the way home I called in at Geelong shopping centre and had a play with this...

first I had a play with penguins.....

then a seal!! Lol!! It was a screen in the shopping centre, white lumps about like ice bergs and you stood near the screen and the camera picked you up...I wasn't prepared to wave my hands in the air as requested though!! Lol!!

Some secret sewing happening here this evening...oh....I had some other photos to show you.....

..the hail that stayed on the ground Wednesday morning...we had it on and off all night....

this was on my car at about 7.30 am! I am off now, the pizza has arrived and I need to get some sewing done!

Happy sewing.

Birthday gathering

I  have spent the last 24ish hours in Gisborne catching up with these lovely ladies

It was the usual Wednesday night gathering, minus a few bodies, busy or unwell or away travelling also last Sunday was Tania 's special birthday...the big 50!! So we lashed out and had fish and chips for dinner and then instead of going out to the usual meeting room we stayed at Margs and had out catch up and did a few stitches there....

Later in the evening we had birthday cake kindly supplied by Tracee 

the birthday girl Tania 

Tracee was working on her stitchery...

Pauline was tatting...amazing work.....

Tania had made her final Underground Railroad Sampler block for us to sign....sorry this is upside down... Marg was going to do some stitching but ended up comforting a nervous dog....I did a little stitching in between chatting...lol.....a very enjoyable time was had.....but today I had to head back to St Leonards....

Love this part of the road...Avenue of Honour in Bacchus Marsh..so pleasant to drive through. ...but back to reality now...some secret sewing happening.....photos later!!

Happy sewing.