Woo Hoo!! Finishes!!

Last night I made this little Christmas decoration with the buttons I had found at the Melton shop...very happy to have done something with them and not just put them in the stash!!

just a simple deco but I am happy with it, I love the cheeky reindeer!! Strange I am happily into making decorations now Christmas is over!!!

this lovely stitchery by Michelle Ridgway.....is finished.....such a cute Teddy., now to decide what to do with it....

and today when at Guild meeting I finished this hexie block...had a couple of bits hanging off the edges but hopefully it will all work out when I attach it to it's backing.

And now I am doing the hand sewing of the binding on this little quilt. Hubby is cooking a BBQ tonight so I might just go do some more sewing on the binding!!

Happy sewing.

I have been

out and about and catching up with wonderful blogging people the last few days...I started off with lunch at Port Arlington with Shez, Jo and Lyn...we had lunch at the Old Bakery and found a table in their beautiful garden area at the back

I have pinched a photo from Jo's blog

Look at these two cheeky girls!!!

Jo's lunch!!! Lol!! No not really, just kidding!!

If nothing else we kept the waiter entertained!!!

Lyn with her lunch...

Guess who couldn't find a pole????Had to make do with a tree instead!! lol!! 

I stayed the night with the wonderful Tracee.....just love the view out of the doors....evening light makes everything look softer...

The next morning we set off and collected Marg and then set off for Craigeburn to meet up with the City girls....

Elyte, myself, Marg, Marina, Clare (aka Sylvia) Jo, Robyn and Tracee.

We had a wonderful lunch at a cafe near the Craigeburn Lakes complex...it was sooooooo hot outside, but lovely inside...and we had wonderful food...when we went back to Tracees car to return to Marina's, the car temp said 46 deg C!!!!!!! Far TOO HOT!!!!

Back at Marina's in the cool house, Clare, Marina, Robyn and Elyte sewed on..

so did Tracee and Marg...

looks like serious conversation over there....Robyn, Elyte and Jo...we had a wonderful day...thank you so much Marina for organising the day!

On our drive home the weather started to change......but the cool took a long time to happen...I stayed at Tracee's again and had another yummy dinner and a couple too many G & T's!!! My excuse was it was a hot day!!! lol!!

Tracee's puppy Justice.....the puppies are 6 months old now.....he has been playing in the mud from the dam, so I took the photo from the window as I didn't want to get mudded!!!! Isn't he a handsome boy! My car had to go in for a service in Melton...so Tracee came with me, and took me to a wonderful fabric shop and some things were on special.....very hard to resist!!!

two panels, the flower one and the little girl one, some gray and green fabric and buttons...and a beautiful batik fabric for an Aussie hero quilt...

after the service was done I did some geocaching...there is a run of caches at the back of Melton based on Aussie sayings....this one was "Has rocks in the head"!!!  Was very entertaining for me!! Well I had better stop now or you will all be asleep!

Happy sewing.

Phew!!!

It is hot in the sewing room today...no breeze is getting in there so I am giving up for the day and going to the beach.  Last night I made a little wall hanging

it is from a book called Scandinavian Style by Trine Bakke. She has some little wall hangings or waste not wall art as she calls them and they use up odd bits and pieces of fabric...I decided to try a Christmas one with Barb Smith buttons. it is a little bigger than in the book, but they were the strips I had left over. Just needs the opening hand sewn now.

I also had a go at another hexie block but decided to sew it on the machine

quite happy with this one....not quite so loud!!! Now I need to decide on a backing fabric and get the blocks finished.  More to do next month!!

Today I have prepped another hexagon block ready for sewing

I am trying to incorporate some Kiwi fabrics in this project that have been sitting in the stash for a while. Well I had better go and make the bed, I washed the sheets today so had better fix it up, nothing worse than going to bed at 10pm and finding the bed unmade!!! Then off to the beach.

Happy sewing.

Relaxing day...

This morning I stayed in bed and read until I finished the book I was reading...finally surfaced dressed and ready to face the world about 11am!!! That was a good one even for me!! Since then the washing has been done, the veges watered and some sewing attempted!
My next Aussie hero quilt is under way, the request was for photography, snowboarding, wilderness, fishing, hiking, mountains and surfing!! Heaps to get onto a quilt!!Not that we have to do everything!!

this is where I am so far...I am thinking of unpicking the wave fabric to the strips and putting in a bit of surfing fabric that I found this morning....not a big fan of unsewing so I am undecided on that one yet!

I went to the beach for a swim this afternoon and a read...was very nice there until the march flies found me....sadly I forgot the bug spray.....but I lasted a couple of hours so that was great.

the catamarans were out racing this afternoon...all five of them, but they came in close and you could hear the swoosh as they went past.

I had better away and get the sand off and then back to the sewing...fish and chips tonight so I don't have to cook!!! Yahoo!!!!

Happy sewing. 

Surprises day..

...today!! After a slow morning getting myself out and about and walking the supervisor, I headed down the road with hubby to the local Anglican church where they were having a book sale....it is the best place for a good summer supply of novels!! I came away with 3 and hubby 5 for the princely sum of $18.00!! Then I had a message from Donna to say she was in the area and did I want to meet up in Queenscliff?? Yes was the answer, so off I went...as Donna and her hubby were looking around and I didn't know where they were I went and did a cache by this amazing tree

Morton Bay fig

wonderful places to hide!!

After I had a cuppa with Donna and Wayne I went for a wander...

the water looked amazing today..

walked past a garden with this lovely hibiscus bush,

then I went to the train station to do some geocaching

they had a Thomas the Tank engine day today, but when I got there Thomas had gone home and this train was out getting ready for the Jazz train tonight.

When I got to the site of the first cache some people came walking along so I pretended to be taking a photo...as stealth is required when caching...very soon I heard " I've found it!" So I went over and introduced myself and ended up walking the best part of a kilometer with a lovely family and doing the caches together. They were much better spotters than me, but I was able to help with one cache with my trusty tweezers!! I had a wonderful, unexpected and most enjoyable afternoon...now to go and put away the washing!! (Nothing like coming back to earth with a thud!!!!)

Happy days!!

FNWF results

I am very happy with what I  managed to sew last night....I did stay up late, but then I was home alone so it didn't matter....great to just potter along and have half an eye on the tv as well...I have to say that by midnight I was past my use by date!!!

the two hexagon blocks are done....I decided to leave the fabrics as they were....I like bright!!! I did have problems getting the centre to sit flat, but will give it a press today and see how it goes.

The binding is made and machine sewn onto the disappearing four patch, just needs the hand sewing now.....the supervisor needs to rest he has had a busy evening!! Lol!!

I had two pin incushions that needed stuffing, so that is done, the hand sewing and button attaching completed these will go to the stall at the Seachange Quilters quilt show in March.

and the applique pieces are all ironed onto the secret project. ..now for some free range sewing to attach them all.

I had a very productive night last night,bit tired this morning but not to worry....you can go over to Cheryll's place to see the other amazing creations that are happening.

Happy sewing.

Friday Night with Friends

I have been preparing things for sewing tonight as it is FNWF, the first one for 2016!! Yippee!!

I am joining up with everyone over at  Cheryll's to have a night of fun and sewing...the supplies are in

some stitching is prepared

I have started a new project, through the Seachange quilters, can't resist a challenge, working from this book....we are supposed to do one a week....hopefully I can keep up!!!! Tonight is the night to get started!!

I am not sure about this one, think the fabric I have chosen is a bit busy but I love the kiwis...will look at it a bit more and then decide if I need to change it....what do you think?

The Seachange ladies are also doing another challenge ( I need to learn to say no sometimes!!!) this one is a row by row with a Christmas theme.....January's block is star!! They need to be sewn on, I am yet to decide whether to do them with buttonhole stitch or raw edge applique. Have the month of Jan to decide!! Lol!!

I have also begun preparing another applique project for a swap in Feb...this one will be raw edge. Right I am off to make some binding and the sort something for dinner.

Happy sewing.