Weekend

Well we are back in Gisborne after a lovely weekend at St Leonard's....being by the beach was wonderful, hearing about the fires near Gisborne wasn't! I couldn't believe the changes I saw and heard on the weekend....

St Leonard's beach Saturday afternoon.....

..visitor in the apple tree.....

Queenscliffe Monday morning....

...black lighthouse and fort....

....love this building on the sky line.....

just missed the Tassie ferry going out the heads.....

Queenscliffe beach from near the black lighthouse.....

and again.....love the colour of the water here....

...beach between Queenscliffe and Point Lonsdale....must do this walk one day....(memo to self Lol!!)

Tuesday morning....the smoke has blown in from the Gippsland fires...

makes everything look very different....and brings home the reality of what is happening!!

..heading off down the beach at St Leonard's this morning...many subdued dog walkers today.....

believe it or not this is the sun this morning......

St Leonard's by the Yacht Club....

from the car on the way home....very gray, very dry....I did get some sewing done but haven't got photos yet so will get on to that next time.

Keep safe.

Happy sewing!

FNWF

Last night I got together with Tania, Tracee and Margaret at Marg's house for FNWF. We have decided to all make an Underground Railroad Sampler and thought getting together once a month would keep us motivated and MAKE us get on with it!! Plus for me, Marg has cooling at her house! Yay!! So we loaded up and hurried off to Marg's house! Tonight we are working on the Underground Railroad or Jacob's Ladder block......

Marg and I got right down to work!! Marg has a beautiful huge kitchen island bench which is perfect for cutting!

Every one is here and down to work!

Tracee concentrating....no time for a photo!! 

Tania modelling the book of instructions!

Marg caught in between busy sewing!

Misty watching proceedings....

Jasmine not posing as I wanted but keeping an eye on me!

Well the blocks are all done and ready to be sewn together but they are different sizes and do not fit!!! Ahhhhh!!!!! Luckily Tracee came to the rescue and worked out that is we cut a little off here and a little off there we would be ok.........I have to say this is not my usual kid of sewing but I found the instructions in the book hard to understand....thank goodness we were working on this together, so there was a combined expertise pool to work it out!!

my finished block......

Tania's block coming along nicely....

Tracee's finished block......love the fabric......

Margs block......love the fabric too ......

SUPPER!!!! Don't we cater well for ourselves!!

all the finished blocks together.....

Tania's finished block......love the colours ....

Photo time!!

and on to the important time of the evening....supper!!

And then on to another important time in the evening...Tracee has been making shower caps you can see why here......so we found we became models late in the evening!! This is especially for Elyte!

Beautiful huh!!

Hard to remain serious though!!!

You can pop over here to super Cheryll's place to share some lemon slice and see what other people got up to on FNWF. Thank you Cheryll for hosting.

Happy sewing!

Found it!!

Well my motivation seemed to come back after I got off the computer...strange that!! Lol!! And no Tracee my marbles are all here not in the oatmeal!! (Although some days I wonder!!) So this afternoon I have been busy

this is how I would like to spend my day...........

but I have cut fabric ready to put together tomorrow night....

...I have wrangled with letters on this quilt top.....

..satin stitch is not my favourite now!!!.......did a bit of a dummy spit as I seem to be stretching the white fabric...actually I don't like this white fabric as it is still creased from washing and I have ironed it and ironed it..........ah well......

....here is the finished quilt top....now to sandwich and get organised to quilt....maybe not today..definitely  not today!!....

...a wee glimmer of hope in a parched garden...the flowering gum is getting it's flowers...it amazes me, everything else is suffering from the heat and it is looking amazing!! The flowering gum is that faint hint of red in the distance!! Lol!!

I have also made two quilt tops to go to Cheryll for her Blankets of Love project...now to find backing...and then the quilting. I suppose I should organise some dinner soon, DH will be getting hungry!!

Happy sewing!!

So while searching.....

I just popped over to Cheryll's blog and signed up for Friday Night With Friends thanks you Cheryll for hosting

Off searching again!!

Happy sewing and friendship!

Lost.........

At the moment, it is my motivation off to search for it!!

Have a great day all!!

Relaxing weekend

The best place to go I have decided, when there is a hot weekend, is to the beach and we were lucky to go to Cape Paterson this last weekend.....we had a great walk on the beach, several swims (well more of a wallow than a swim for me!! Lol!!) We had good food, great company and I got same stitching done and had a drawing lesson....lots of help and practise needed there!!

there is a channel below where the people are standing on the rocks, that is where I went wallowing!!

love, sea, rocks and sun.....such beautiful blue sky....

another channel.....

you can see a little better where I was wallowing, you just get into the water and you go out with the waves and in with the waves...the first out was scary, I thought I was going to head out to sea, but no, the next wave sent me back to shore....was quite relaxing just floating in and out!!

Some pre-cut hexies I am hand sewing together....

some secret sewing I can't show you too much of just yet.....just a teaser!! Lol!!

a little extra sewing on the crazy quilt square....this one should have been finished in January...better get a move on here!!....

and some hexies....I did these in the car on the way...some wobbly stitches but they are on the back so no big drama..

Happy sewing!!