Wood gathering

Oh my I am sore, my fingers are sore, my shoulders are sore and my legs are sore but we have a fair bit of wood for nothing. The price of wood is getting like everything else I suppose it's ridiculous. A friend mentioned a couple of months ago that they have a lot of fallen trees so we finally made a day to go out there.The property is huge they have their own lake with heaps of black swans living there, Dave was thinking about how many garden beds he could build I think. The hangar in the photo has one plane in it.

Now all we have to do is go back in a week or two and get enough wood for next season, we hardly made a dent in the pile but a lot was too old and a bit rotten.

 

Friday Night with Friends -July

 I never remember this but Anorina from sameliasmum blog reminded me and i had been sewing before the football so I took some pics to share.

I added a couple more rows to my Mirage Quilt, and I have been sewing these pink or red half square triangles as a leader ender thing for months now with no idea what it was to become and I had 12 in this floral so it will become a cushion to go to Lismore.

It is a miserable damp day here so I am going to make a loaf of bread and then sew- fingers crossed 

June is done and dusted

 I know I'm getting old but where did June go?

What have I been doing? well I have read a few books.

These two were great, The Mother is an Australian author. I also read The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, I wasn't impressed by it I finished it but only so I could find out what happened. I thought it was typical of how friends and mainly women can turn on each other.

I have quit my job I wasn't happy there from the start I will hopefully be starting a new job soon, so I have been doing some baking. I have made Pizza scrolls and English Muffins, the fire is great for proving dough. I also made some Chicken and Leek pies.

We have sold out of our tomato sauces and almost ran out of the Pickled Cucumbers I didn't think that could happen we had so many.

Last weekend I was at Coolah for the Mirage Quilt workshop, it was a two day workshop, the first day was just cutting! I stayed at a friends place overnight and had a great time, the Coolah girls run great workshops, the lunches and morning teas are awesome. Think pumpkin soup with garlic bread and chocolate chip bread and butter pudding for dessert, yumm.

The sheep were moving around in the paddock next door and gave us funny looks when we baahed at them. Kate has some beautiful roses in her garden and these hanging pots were gorgeous in full flower.

The pattern for the Mirage quilt was a bit daunting at first but once we got started with the cutting and labelling pieces it got easier. I can't wait to finish it and I plan to do another in greys.

I've also been doing my Churn Dash blocks for Chooky blues SAL. I am so devo that I am missing the Sydney Craft Show but I will plan ahead for next year.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my rambling

Winter Is Here

 Oh my it's cold, I think it's going to rain and the temperature has dropped. We pruned most of the roses in the back yard on the weekend they look a little bare.

Chooky Blue is hosting a Churn Dash SAL, when I met up with her in Coonabarabran I bought the fabric for my quilt and started to cut it yesterday using my new Stripolody ruler it made it a lot quicker thatn just using a normal ruler.

This mass of half square triangles are a leader and ender pile I don't know where it's going next but I still have a lot of red and white squares.

These three tops were made with the deceased estate stash from Coolah Country Patchwork, they have been handed in to get quilted, I have never had a top quilted by someone else, then it will go to the flood victims in Lismore. 

I'm not sure what I'm doing wether I am going to remain working in a job that I'm not liking, I haven't liked it since I started here, it's not the same as the nursing home in Wollongong, the majority of the staff are unfriendly and unpleasant, it's a shame that I need money for sewing supplies.

I'm about to do a pork roast in the airfryer for dinner.

That Was May

So today is the last day of May and as everyone will say the year is flying by. Ive gotten over Covid only to get the flu, We've been to Wollongong to see family and friends and had my delayed 60th birthday party. We have sold a lot of pickles and sauces. I have done a lot of sewing, well for me anyway. I met up with the famous blogger "ChookyBlue"! through her I found a lovely new quilt shop one hour away. 

The garden is going great lots of snow peas coming ready to be frozen for the year, the roses are starting to get new growth on them so it's almost time to prune them.

Some photos from my party, it was a great night a lot of dancing and singing. The dress code for the ladies was sequin soit was very sparkly.the photo at the top is a present from a friend , a photo of dave an the two youngest boys at my nieces wedding a few years ago printed in sepia on balsa wood. I love it very thoughtful.

The last photo is my Meadowland quilt, prize winning quilt, at its new home.

Today we had the first frost of winter so I'm off to play in the garden with hubby Yay.... not!