FNWF

I had the pleasure of spending FNWF with the lovely Tracee and Marg

I started with this

And finished up with these 

Good job done. 

Very nice to spend an evening with these wonderful friends.

Happy stitching.

Aussie Hero quilt

Has been finished and posted

Now to the next one currently under construction

I have messed up the feet so need to redo them, I forgot to have my picture I am tracing from in reverse so I am working backwards 🙃🤪 does funny things to my brain! 

I have just been for a covid booster, have been told no strenuous exercise for two days 🤣 no problem there, the nurse didn't consider sewing strenuous!! 

A Finn photo from the weekend taken by Beth in the suit Mary bought him. Finn now has three teeth on the top and is chewing like mad, so maybe more are moving around.

My plan for today is to clean the inside of the car so I had better go and do it, gently!! 😁

Have a mosiacs class this afternoon which I am looking forward too.

Happy stitching.

The Quilt Show

Has come and gone, I spent last Sunday doing duty, front door, white glove and raffle tickets and then packing up,  we got away earlier than expected which was great! 

Some general views

This was my Heritage challenge effort, there were three judges who each chose their favourite entry and mine was one chosen !! How special was that!

My other entry,  the bookcase quilt, pattern from the Missouru Star Company, you can find it on YouTube.

I have been walking most days and the weather has been beautiful, one day I met Adam and Finn and we had a walk together 

Such a happy little man, he is getting what looks like 3 teeth on his top gum, it must be so uncomfortable .

Another day I met Beth at the shops and we walked home together, we were lucky to see a seal coming up onto the beach

It didn't stay long, it went back into the water when a lady came along on her bike.

I put the layers of a quilt together on the front deck, I had two helpers that day

Finn and I working on our selfies  he likes seeing himself in the phone camera.

The pelicans were waiting for some fish.

I have been working on an Aussie Hero quilt, hopefully a photo soon.

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Happy stitching.

Here and there

 I have been visiting Finn and his family and having walks with them when we time our walks together

we have had play time at home

and watched Finn venture into eating solids!

We have had hot sunny days, some even went in swimming, a bit cold for me yet

the pelicans enjoyed the bits from the fish cleaning station, I think the pelican on the right might have been eating squid

I had a walk along the sea front in Geelong one day and enjoyed the bollards again

these two are looking a bit the worse for wear sadly

we have had some cooler and wet weather too.

Today I delivered my quilt to West Geelong for the Quilt Exhibition of the Guild starting tomorrow

the bookcase quilt is all finished.

I had a walk around and in the Botanic Gardens on the way home

Well blogger has moved these all around so they are mixed up!

back in St Leonards walking

on the walk around the Botanic Gardens the fruit bats are snoozing in the pine trees

a bit of a fuzzy zooming in photo 😀

a big old tree I liked 😀

beautiful flowers in the dry garden section

in one of the hot houses

and again

they had a kowhai tree in flower in the gardens, although it was labelled a tree from Chile, the nectar feeding birds love these flowers

part of a sculpture in the gardens, sadly I chopped it's head off!!

seed pods from an interesting tree, no seeds though

this beautiful stag fern? was in the fernery.

I am currently working on an Aussie Hero quilt, the request was for Staffordshire terriers and the ship  crest - hope he likes blue!!

the next one is for Tank Evans from Surfs Up. This requires a large applique - next weeks job!

A little progress has been made on the modern triangles, a challenge at the Bellarine Quilters

these were mostly foundation paper piecing

A little more has happened on the Daylesford quilt top

and the cropped diamonds are coming along slowly

I called in to Heights sewing centre after dropping off my quilt, I had a voucher to spend ( lucky me) and found these plus some quilting templates to have a play with

went to the bike shop and got a comfy seat for my bike ( I hope!!)

and I have started reading this book...phew are you still awake??

I am off to continue on the AH quilt.

Happy stitching.