Scrub Stitching, Baradine

Lots of sewing and  catching up has been happening

We were greeted with these beautiful moths in the morning

Janice's quilt has a border

Janice has finished one of her Swoon blocks

I have made a super hero quilt top and bag

and a other Superhero quilt top

Jenny has finished her Twister quilt top

Di has finished her bookcase quilt  the blocks are made with her embroidery machine and it personalised for her family.

Geraldine's beautiful quilt is all together

Jo's Twister is together, beautiful colour wash

My Cat in the Hat quilt top is finished with a

pillowcase from some left over fabric.

Melinda has made a beautiful elephant, her first foundation paper piecing effort.

Chooky's Mum is making s ones for morning tea and they will be here soon.

I am off to do some more sewing.

Happy Stitching.

Day 3 to Baradine

This morning we left Parkes in heavy rain and a thunder storm, travel was a bit slow for a while

once we arrived and settled in, sewing started.

two Anthology blocks for this week

one of the locals

several of the girls are making twister quilts  this is Jo's after the sewing of blocks and cutting using the twister block to cut around, all positioned here ready to sew back together.

Janice has put together this lovely quilt top.

More was done but no photos here so no doubt when show and tell happens there will be more.

Happy stitching. 

On the road day 2

Lots of driving today, paddocks, empty spaces  the smoke from stubble burn off. We stayed overnight at Parkes  well known for the Elvis festival.

painted building leaving Jerilderie

geocaching shop, cache was in the plane, but you has to climb out to the wheel to reach it, so was not one for me.

Lunch stop at Wyalong

some of the locals 

tractor towing  farm equipment and raising dust

This and that

Last week or was it earlier this week hubby and I drive up to Gisborne to collect a quilt Traceee of Hummingbird Quilting. She has done a beautiful job, I am very happy.

I have been stitching away on the hexies and have made good progress

I started some knitting in the car on the way to Gisborne, 

the colour is more watermelon  it looks very bright in the photo 📸 , this will be a dish cloth. I found two balls of wool.when packing and sorting so thought I would get knitting. 

A few more cropped diamonds have been sewn together 

slowly but surely making progress, I have lots more scraps to stamp and cut.

The footie is on this afternoon, Richmond is playing so Adam is here with the dogs  Tira is watching the world go by outside

Hank is patrolling and checking everything in the house

I had better be off now and do some stitching.

Happy days.

Beautiful sunny day today

This morning I checked my emails and saw Chooky was having a zoom for an hour so quickly got my things together and joined in.

It was lovely to catch up with everyone.

 Summer has returned again today and it is quite hot. I did some gardening this morning and came in for lunch looking like tomato face!! 

I cleaned off the table on the front deck and sandwiched two quilts out there, it was a bit breezy but not too bad

I can hear many boats and jet skis out on the water.

Yesterday I went to the quilt shop in Gisborne and did a class with Irene Blanck, she is a wizz with applique. I have had a project of hers for many years so decided it was time to relearn applique and get it made.

Irene helped me with the curved seams and did the beak as a demo, there are a few more circles to add before this part is finished.

I have also finished the binding on two quilts

Such a good feeling to have them finished.

Last weekend we went to David's niece's 30th at her place in Wonthaggi. We stayed in a cabin at the campground at Kilcunda. Sometimes, well most times, this is a very windy place as the southerly wind hurls straight of the ocean, but we struck a beautiful weekend.

Friday evening I had a beach walk

Saturday morning we went for a bike ride along the rail trail

me following hubby

we stopped to look for a cache and found some kangaroos watching us

and I finally found the cache, thank goodness!

I had another ride, early afternoon before we went out, the trail went inland away from the coast, I was looking for caches but saw a snake so that changed my mind pretty quickly!

View to the ocean heading back.

The figs are ripening on the tree and I can't do much with them, but I did see a recipe for fig vodka, which was a bottle of vodka put into a large glass container, then you add three cups of washed, chopped figs, give it a swirl around and put it in a dark place. I was supposed to swirl it each day, but often didn't remember. It was in a  cupboard for 7 days, then I took it out and strained it off. I had a taste the other day and it is pretty good!

I think that is enough from me for now 😄, it is fish and chip night at Adam and Beth place, hopefully by the time I get there the footie will be nearly finished 👍.

Happy stitching and have a wonderful week.