Saturday sewing

Today I went to the meeting of the Geelong Patchwork and Quilting Guild and had a good time, not so many people there today as lots were at the Quilt show in the city.....sadly one of the lovely ladies I met last time has had a stroke and is in hospital....goes to show once again we have no idea of what is around the corner for us!! There were more Rajah quilts on display for show and tell and also these two

this beautiful quilt is made from a piece of fabric then heavily quilted with gold thread and beaded....

isn't that beautiful...

..this beautiful quilt is a gift...the person receiving it asked for a horse quilt....

and this is a baby floor quilt...love the colours!

I did get some stitching done on the hexie quilt and on a stitchery.....the speaker was the curator from the Geelong Wool Museum......he was very interesting and very knowledgeable about quilts....sadly he said one of the biggest myths in quilting relates to the Underground Railroad quilts...the blocks are said to give a message to slaves escaping to Canada....this gentleman said it is all untrue and only came into being 25 to 30 years ago!! I was gutted!!! I so wanted to believe it was true!!! Oh well I can still believe it is a good idea even if it isn't true! Off to ACQ tomorrow...another busy day.

Happy sewing.

FNSI results

I had a good night sewing last night, managed to get the next Aussie Hero quilt together...very simple design, now to try and decide on some quilting

front....

and back......

and I managed to get the stitchery trimmed...had a woops there as I trimmed it to what I thought was eight and a half inches, but when I checked it, it was nine inches so I happily took half an inch off each side and duh!!!! then realised what I had done! So my inner square is smaller than most! But that us ok. Then I went to put in the clock mechanism only to find there isn't a small nut as called for in the directions...so everything ground to a halt!! will have to go to the local hardware shop and see  if I can get another.

Off to Wendy's now to see what the other FNSIer's got up to.

Happy sewing.

FNSI

Where is the time going??  I  heard Richard Stubbs on the radio last week or the week before saying that there are two trees in Tasmania, the one on the right has a whole in it  and that is where time goes!!! Lol!! So now I want to find that tree and get time back again!! Ha!Ha!!

Once again it is Friday Night Sew In...you can sign up over at Wendy's blog..I signed in at number 45......it will be interesting to see what people are sewing tonight.
I am making a start on another on an Aussie hero quilt

I am hoping to turn this...

..and this into a quilt...the request is for blue, purple, green and horses! Luckily I found some perfect horse fabric in Mount Gambier last week.

Still working on this quilt, doing lots of free motion quilting (or free range as it is known here!!) on the black lines...about to start on the leaves...kind of daunting!!!

The wonderful shed building men are here to finish the super shed and carport....that is great but they are cutting metal with a saw and my teeth are curling!!!  Hope all the cutting is done very soon!!

I have been working on another KOGO blanket, have all the pieces sewn together...now for the crochet edging...going to be a bright one!!!

Happy sewing!

Grand day out (sorry photo heavy again!)

It has been a lovely day today after waking up at 4.30am because of a thunder storm! Not close but loud enough!! I went to a new sewing group today here at St Leonards and met some wonderful new ladies, one English and one Irish..the other two I had met a few weeks ago at the Bellarine Quilters meet up. We sat and sewed the morning away and then went to the pub for lunch...sadly the food for me was not that good, but the company was great. After lunch I wandered into Geelong to find the Geelong South train station to find out about trains to get into the city on Sunday...and guess what!!! No trains this weekend...so I shall be getting a bus instead!! That sorted I went in to Geelong and to the National Wool museum...as they have this wonderful exhibition on....

so I went for a wander....they had many NZ women mentioned plus a costume the woman would have worn at the time...I found it very emotional reading about them....hence the many photos!!

You can skip over this now if you want to...

love this dress..

...some very clever women...

I am not sure if this is readable but another amazing woman..

beautiful dress...

interesting washing line!!

love this beach north of Nelson in the South Island..

got to love this woman...she pioneered VD treatment and wrote and wrote a book on marriage and vd....considered scandalous by the military at the time..she was a wicked woman, but later the Army adopted her treatment...

this woman was part Maori and part pakeha and did a lot of good work towards the rehabilitation of  all soldiers during an dafter the war..

this was a beautiful dress...

a few of the poppies for this display....I can't remember now how many were asked for but they ended up with 4000...

love the poppy display..

and of course a Bollard...I love the bollard and I understand this was the creator of the bollards in Geelong....sadly now no longer with us....

and yes I did get some stitching done this morning...despite lots of chat.....the hexies are appliquéd onto the stitchery and I made another hexie flower ...quite a productive morning...

Happy sewing.

Hexies

It is that time once again to join up with Anthea for her Piece yourself together time and show what has happened with the EPP. Sadly not a lot here, but as I knew this day was getting close I pulled out some hexies (ready cut Yay!! and made them up last night. They go on this lovely clock pattern by Ramona Hermann of Flutterby Designs. It was one of the goodies from the recent Gail Pan stitchery day.

Need to attach the hexies to the stitchery now....maybe tomorrow....I have been invited to a small sewing group here in St Leonards, so will be a good project to take....

I have also finished the first KOGO blanket for this year...now on to the next one.

Happy sewing.

Heading home

Well all good things must come to an end and today we begin our journey home.....we came through Millicent to have a look in the antique shop and then carried on to the Tantanoola Cave....an interesting cave with many stalagmites and stalactites.....

all kinds of colours in the mites and stites.....there are only two of these kinds of caves  in the southern hemisphere.... 

isn't this amazing....

up on the roof of the cave...

not a huge cave but stunning,...we were to some people come in here to sing by them selves....how wonderful would that be?

We stopped at an antiques shop in Casterton, the home of the kelpie, so of course had to take a photo!! I have had a great time but am happy to be heading home again.

Happy travels.

Another days wanderings

We woke to a beautiful sunny day today....great for exploring local beaches

the light house that used to be at Cape Jaffa.......

we walked out along the jetty, this is looking to the right......

and to the left.....a local lady told us the seaweed is usually about 12 feet high, the council have done a lot of work this year to get rid of it and make the beach user friendly....

then we drove 20km up the road to have a look at The Granites...a local tourist attraction....we are not sure why, maybe it is because there a some granite boulders here when everything else seems to be limestone....

I climbed up on  top and listened to the waves breaking, just little ones really... but it was so relaxing and such a lovely place to be I could have sat there for hours!!

just like this!!  Lol!! But lunch was to be procured and we had to move along.....

after lunch we went out and took a photo of Larry the Big Lobster...major tourist attraction here!! It has been a beautiful sunny day here, a real pleasure to be out and about. 

I found a ball of wool today on our travels so tonight I am starting the edging on this KOGO rug.

Happy sewing.