Benalla

After we arrived at Benalla we went out to find some Adventure Lab locations

They were all based around street art, this was under the library 

the light is going 🙄

here we had to count how many birds in the painting

this painting was in memory of the residents of the migrant camp

After seeing this rabbit we had to go back to the motel via the supermarket as it was getting very dark. We managed to answer all the questions, it is not easy trying to work out colours of things on walls in the twilight but we had fun.

Happy stitching.

Tiki tour

The car is packed and I have picked up Raewyn from the airport and we have travelled from Melbourne to Benalla. From there we headed north and found four silos on our way.

leaving Benealla we stopped for a look at this beautiful sculpture 

This was created by several different artists.

Our first Silo was in Goorambat

This was the view as we drove down the road

And then the Silo

This is on private property

Check out the selfie queens!! 😁

This was also at Goorambat. Love these horses, Sam, Banjo and Clem.

selfie queens taking photos of selfie queens 🤣🤣

The painting was beautiful.

We found a little Cafe down the road, the loos were painted too

How good is this. 

From there we went to the next Silo at Devenish

This one remembers nurses in the wars

and the Lighthorse.

the toilet block

Great old buildings here

this building was at the back of the pub.

Then we moved onto St James, the home of the man who started Coles supermarkets, his original store is still in the town.

There was a series of Adventure Labs along this run of silos, but in Devenish the WiFi wasn't working for me, so we have a gap in the answers.

From here we went on to Tungemah

Love the dancing Brolgas

love the Aussie birds

The information centre was open and they had a gift shop so we paid them a visit and got some goodies, the outside was also painted by the same artist who did the silos

She also did a painting at the pub

Isn't this a beautiful building -  Check out the view down the road

I think that probably is enough for this post, more soon. Happy travels.

Progress

 I have been doing a lot of ironing, cutting and preparing this week, getting ready for Scrub Stitching

Fabric cut for one quilt

two quilts

#3 quilt, more fabric is coming in the mail, I hope it gets here before the weekend. I am doing fat quarter blocks for these quilts so they should come together quite quickly . (She says hopefully!!)

When I was in the kitchen this morning  I could hear and see a galah outside, I thought it might nave been interested in the vege garden below but it's mate was in the tree just a bit further along feasting on these red berries, it was not at all bothered that I went out to say hello and take some pictures.

I spent quite a bit of time on the kitchen this morning preparing the figs for some more jam, there are so many figs on the tree, the birds are having a feast, I watched a silver eye demolish a fig about the same size as its body when I went out this morning.  I have made 10 jars this season so far. 

The Churn Dash quilt is finished - Ready for show and tell at Scrub Stitching

This scrappy quilt is finished, thanks to Joan for the quilting. Joan did a spider web design and it looks amazing.

and the Foundation Paper Pieced hearts are finished.

Two more blocks have been done for Anthology, sorry blogger decided they had to be turned around!

I was given these blocks, they are the last of Kates things, Judy, one local quilter has, 

I am going to add them to the sides of this quilt top started ages ago and never finished, it is long enough but not wide enough, this may just solve the problem.

I had better be off and sort the mess in the sewing room.

Happy stitching.