More for March

 I have no idea what I'm doing here sometimes, I wrote a blog post yesterday and it posted on Chookys scrub stitchin blog, so I will try again. I have finished my  Chookshed Stitchers Challenge for March and I am very happy with it.

This was done as a workshop at Coolah Country Patchwork last year, I actually made 2 using the rest of the centre panel so both of my nieces girls will get one each.

I have more than one list for the year I also have a quilting and a binding list and I am getting through them as well. It helps that I am home alone most of the week so I can sew for as long as I want. Yesterday I finished this row quilt and I will do the binding next week while watching tv.

This was done in a mystery quilt workshop in Gunnedah in 2021, I have quilted very simply across the quilt on the teal seams.

I dot an email today saying that I won a fatquarter pack of Island Batik fabrics from the SAHRR, which is still on the design wall. Yay! 

This huge pumpkin was the last one from last year it smelt beautiful when I cut it , I gave a quarter to a friend last weekend and the youngest son is coming up for the easter weekend so thaty can have some and we will eat the rest. We are going to the rifle range for the morning on Saturday ouor friend works there and Dave and Brad will have a go with Dave's rifles but I'm going to play with our friends hand gun I can't wait I wasn't that keen to shoot with the rifles fearing the kick would agravate my shoulder but now I am keen. There's another beautiful sunrise. Happy Easter!

March Catch up

 This was the sunrise this morning, if I wasn't in my pj's I would have driven up to the lookout for more pics, never mind.

So this month in the Chookshed Stitchers Challenge I have finished the quilting on a panel quilt for my grat niece, the binding is on and the hand sewing has started.

 I have also finished a By Annie Ultimate Travel Bag, it was a lot of work but I'm very happy with it. You know in all patterns they say read all the instructions first well that just confuses me but with this one I wish I had done it, the last page of the instructions there is a page with labels on it and it says to copy the page and cut the labels before cutting fabric...... that would have been helpful I thought of making my own labels but I would have had to number everything too much work, anyway it is done and has been entered in Mendoran Show this weekend.

A friend and I went to Craft Alive in Tamworth last weekend, it wasn't a very big show but there was a variety of shops there, I bought a cute cot panel from Logans Patchwork and also an aussie Christmas panel. I just need someone to have a baby now.

February Done and Dusted

 Goodbye Feb you hot month, I will not miss you. This was a lovely sunrise that I captured. The garden is struggling it has been so hot and dry.

I finished the top of my No 2 in the Chookshed Challenge and I am very happy with it, it will hopefully get quilted very soon and gifted to our friend in Wollongong who always lets us stay at her place when we go down adn she is letting Dave live there half the week while he's at work. This is a free pattern by Lella Boutique, I started it at Scrub Stitchin last year and finished it in February.

I have been binding like mad while watching telly finishing quilts that will be going in the Gunnedah Show this year, the first is the Kinship Fusion quilt whish was a sewalong as a block a day for 100 days run by @gnomeangel. I started it in July 2019, finished the top at the end of 2019 got it quilted last year and now it's a finished quilt

The fabric shop in Gunnedah is closing but the had a sale I spent February and March's fabric budget on some widebacks, neutrals and pretty colours to go in the stash. I truly don't know why it doesn't get smaller haha.

    

This quilt was a stash buster that was meant to be a rainbow style but I got carried away cutting yellows and oranges, I have a box of green waiting for the white to be cut too. It is finished.

My SAHRR quilt has stopped it was too hot to sew when the rounds were announced I have them cut they will get done this month I hope.

February Goals

Sew for 30 minutes a day 21/29 not bad

Year to date sewing for 30 minutes 45/60

Reading - no books finished 

Bye