This and that

This weekend has been a bit of everything, I have had an Aussie Hero quilt to get finished, and several for the hospital to get binding on, so this weekend was a binding weekend, mixed in with dvd watching and book reading!

A heap of quilts with binding machine sewn on one side, the far right one is finished!! Yay!

The desert rose is looking beautiful, more flowers coming.

This afternoon I have been cutting pieces for the One Block Wednesday blocks, catch up time tomorrow.

and the Minion quilt is nearly finished, I need to sew in all the endy bits from the quilting.

Quite a productive weekend for me, even managed to do a little gardening!

Today

I have spent hours on the computer getting the Geelong Guild newsletter finished, my first nail biting solo month...have sent it out for proof reading so we will see what happens!!
I have been playing with lots of different things, having a Dory month I think

I have been playing around with a plant saucer, planning on it being a bird bath. I has been sealed front and back and now I am working out a pattern, next step is to glue down.

The Aussie hero quilt is waiting for more quilting, it has been really humid today, so not the best for wrangling a quilt around.

The Supervisor is supervising from a resting position!

and very exciting for me, the desert rose has another flower coming out!! More buds growing too!

Last Monday at Bellarine Quilters Jill showed us a quilt she has made from scraps.

And Margaret got to blow out the candles on two birthday cakes, it was her 80th birthday. 

I am off now to glue some glass bits and maybe do some quilting, it is also time to do more cutting for the One Block Wednesday to do this weeks 12 blocks, but the Minions have to be sorted first.

Happy Stitching.

Progress

I have made another 5 blocks for One Block Wednesday, I am now up to date, well at least til next Wednesday! ! 😉

All caught up. 

Today I started on an Aussie Hero quilt, the theme is Minions!! Kind of obvious I know!! I am working on star blocks to go top and bottom.

  

Shane, #2 son took this photo over Christmas time whne we decided to go for a walk along the beach at Ocean Grove, it was 36 deg C that dag and it was ok by the beach but we decided to come back thru a beach track and boy it was hot. Not my idea of fun. Shane and I lagged behind hubby and when we caught up he had been playing  with cuttle fish he had found on the beach. He is now known as Walrus!!  One for the family album I think.

I had better get back to sewing stars.

Happy stitching.

FNWF

Last night was FNWF where we have a virtual sewing party hosted by the lovely  Chez over at Gone Stitching. We have had a visitor staying for the last few days so I forgot to put on my blog that FNWF was coming up, too busy gadding about the countryside.  I did get to some sewing yesterday late afternoon

I am now up to 19 squares for the One Block Wednesday 

I have saved some of the little corners, have a plan in mind, a bit of madness!!

The Supervisor is resting after his morning walk

Hee hee I snuck in another photo

And last night while Ingrid and David watched a scary movie I did some knitting, this will be a dish cloth. I must confess I watched with one eye and looked away at the scary parts. I am not a fan of clowns and especially not scary ones with pointy teeth!!!!

I have just been outside,  here is the desert rose this morning

Desert rose plus photographic assistant!!!

I am so happy to see the flower, it is such a beautiful colour.

I had better head off and do some more blocks,

Have a wonderful weekend.

The last few days

seem to have been busy and gone by in a blur! I have had this desert rose plant for over 15 years, it cam home with me from Bowen in far north Queensland, it had been growing slowly. This year we put it into a bigger pot, gave it lots of food and a few days ago we noticed the first ever flowers were coming!!!

a bunch of 4 or 5 flowers on two branches!! I am very excited to finally get flowers. I am wondering if it is because we have had hot and humid weather this summer??

Hubby has planted hibiscus plants in the garden and was most excited with this flower.

One morning when we went for a walk this pigeon kept a close eye on us..

The Supervisor wasn't interested! He just wanted to eat grass so must have been feeling a bit off.

It was a lovely day for a walk along the beach.

Today Ingrid and I have been over to Queenscliff, we saw lots of hot rods

Apparently there is a gathering there this weekend, hubby and I are going back to have another  look tomorrow.

Sorry it is a blurry photo, but look how far the desert  rose flower has come out!! Yay!!

The other big bud is getting bigger

The Supervisor of course had to get in on the act!!

Today I have been working away on the One Block Wednesday blocks sewing along with the Temecula Quilt Company and the lovely Elyte over at Tea, fabric and other things, we are attempting to motivate each other to keep going!

For some reason blogger turned the photo around, but these are the blocks I finished yesterday, 8 done, 16 to finish to get up to date! I need some different colours I think, these are looking much the same, they are not all brown even though they look that way!!

I had better get moving, Ingrid is making the evenings berry mojito! Yum!!

Happy evening on the way!!

Happy stitching.

Back home

I am back home again after a very hot weekend at Eve's house. On Saturday I compared the temp at home, 23 deg C and near to Eve's 36 deg C!! Made me want to go straight back to the beach and enjoy the cool afternoon breeze!! We spent our time indoors with the air con on, I did walk Eve's dog morning and evening, much to his excitement!! A little sewing was done, I now have 5 to add to the finished pile. We had a spectacular sunset one night at Eve's

A large grouop of cockatoos were feeding on the side of the road one morning, eating the flower heads of the dandelions

This one was watching us from above. They are such beautiful birds.

The sunflower was in glorious bloom, there was even a bee visiting.

Not sure what this was but it was a beautiful flower.

Basil the Bad in a rare calm moment (ie just after a LONG walk)

Today I have had a lovely day stitching and chatting and lunching with some of the lovely girls from the Bellarine Quilters. Jill and Mary have signed up to do a BOM with Shiralee Stitches

Jill has finished block 1

and now is on to block 2. They both look amazing.

These flowers were in Sandies back yard, still blooming despite the heat, they are hollyhocks, stunning huh!!

More of the same.

The Supervisor gave my bags a thorough check when I got home, just to make sure I had not been with another dog!!

Finally here are the finished stars

and a stack of finished stars, might be time to sew a few together and see what they look like.

I sewed together a few of the square shapes with the soft iron on papers inside, not sure that I like them yet, but will continue on and see how we go.

I am off to sort some dinner.

Have a wonderful week.

Progress

I managed to sort out where I had gone wrong with the block I was making and the main part is now finished, I have a border to add next.

I am very happy with how it has turned out.

I have been working on some secret sewing so can not show anything of that yet

but at sewing group today the little stars got another outing.
 am off to Boronia tomorrow to visit Eve, I do not think we will be doing much as we are in for two hot days, will be inside with the air con on stitching watching dvd's I think.

Happy stitching.