See Ya Later Aligator!!!!!

 It's August blog hop run by Carla at Creatin' in the sticks the brief was  to create something inspired by travel, anything from places to go, how to get there and anything in between. Even an alligator. 

I was going to make a big block book for EPP but I needed a few supplies and time ran out and I couldn't get to the fabric shop to get what I wanted and we have had a steady stream of visitors lately, it's my husbands 60th birthday today so his brothers and a few friends made the trek over the last couple of weekends to visit him and the kids are here now and another brother. So then I thought I would make shoes bags for the kids as they are starting to travel again, but same problem I couldn't get what I wanted so think Lianne..... I went to the op shops looking for a voile curtain nope, the cheap shop had one and I must say never ever buy a sheer curtain from the Reject shop it's terrible material but good enough for shoe bags, I used french seams so it wouldn't fall apart. So then I didn't have enough bias binding for the casing so I used my Pauline Rogers bias makers and volia!

With all the visitors we have been up at the lookout a few times and the canola fields in the distance look beautiful. The other picture is my Bonsai Azalea that number 3 son has grown for me.

Make sure to go and look at the others in todays hop

Moose Stash Quilting

Quilt Doodle Designs

Quilting Gail

Just Sew Quilter

Homespun Hannah

Thanks for stopping by

August Already

 Welcome August, you sneaked right in there....

August is a big birthday month hubby will be 60!!!!!! Youngest will be 26, friends birthdays all month.

I am still trying to get my quilts finished, I have machine basted 3 ready to go to the kitchen table ad get quilted. I was thinking of getting a small Juki machine to go on my frame but I don't think that will solve my quilting problems so I think I will just have to save, borrow, steal and get a bigger machine and frame. this will take time.

I will definately try and get more from this author, the book was great to read and I didn't geuss the ending at all

I have been baking my own bread, we like it and go through 2 loaves a week, last weekends loaf didn't play nice, it wouldn't leave the tin and my favourite tupperware spatula broke, I will have to replace it it is the best for turning omelettes

 am up to date with my Churn Dash Blocks for Chooky's sew a long.

I'm doing The Kinship 100 Block Fusion Quilt again, I may even have the finished one quilted before this one is finished.... a block a day for 100 days, it sounds hard but it isn't it just takes a bit of organising, we'll see how I go.

That's all my news Bye!

UFO Blog Hop

 Joan from Moose Stash Quilting is hosting this months blog hop and oh my do I have some UFO's. I only looked in the quilt tops that are sitting waiting patiently and theres a numerous amount. Why is this you may ask? I love to patchwork but the quilting part is a challenge for me, I love doing binding it's just that bit before the binding. There is a pattern here. I bought a small quilting frame last year and I have had it assembled twice. last year I did 2 quilt tops on it and decided I need a machine with a bigger throat than my little Brother. Also I'm not good at it and I know that practice will help me get better I just don't like the look of my quilting most of the time.

So when this blog hop got closer I assembled the frame again made it as big as it will go , because there are some wide quilts to be done, and put my big machine on the carriage and the thread kept breaking. I realised the machine was on a tilt so I put a wooden cutting board under it to balance and make it straight, it still kept breaking thread and the carrriage wouldn't move nicely. Big machine is too heavy so it went back to the sewing room and the little machine hopped on. 

Now to the quilt tops and backing! 

All the backings are there some are patched some are just fabric joined and a couple are widebacks bought especially for the quilt it will go on.

Quilts are 

1/ A table runner made for christmas 2017

2/ a mystery quilt from Australian Quilting and Patchwork magazine circa 2005?

3&4/ Square in a square, I started making these and went a bit overboard so there was enough for 2 lap quilts.

5/ ugly fabric tumbler quilt. I cut tumblers from a die cut machine using fabric that I wouldn't use for anything else, this quilt is huge which is why it hasn't been quilted.

6/ something windmills from a bee swap maybe around 2015

7/ Fuzzy blocks another bee swap 2019

8/ Bee swap 2019

9/ Fusion quilt by Gnomeangel 2019 block a day for 100 days sew a long.

10/ Stash busting quilt 2019

11/ Tula pink Kingfisher quilt 2019

12/ Whirligig quilt 2021

13/ 6" sampler quilt 2021

14/ Mystery quilt by gumtree cottage 2021

15/ Disappearing 9 patch 2022

16/ Mirage Quilt 2022

So with the mishaps of the last 2 weeks I have quilted the 2 square in a square quilts and happy to have got them done I am ready to load another quilt onto the frame after lunch.

Go and have a look at  what the others in todays hop have done

Just Let M Quilt

Karrin's Crazy World

Mrs P Designs USA

Time 4 Stitchin

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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