July?

 Well now where did June go? It disappeared in a wave of work, a trip to Armidale, a couple of trips to Coolah and the best part a trip to Sydney.

Work- still there, it has slowed a bit for me as there is a new girl working in Gunnedah, it was just me for a while.

Armidale - I took 3 quilts to Jackson to quilt, they are done and should be home soon.

Coolah- there was the normal Monday and then a workshop making a cute spotted duffle bag. Catherine quilted the fabric before the workshop and because the dots on the fabric weren't straight she quilted circles, I love it there were a few swear words when we were sewing the bag ends on and the inner seam binding but it's done and has been used it's amazing how much it holds.

Sydney- I went for the Sydney craft show, this wasn't the one where Quilt NSW has their big show but it was great, not a lot of workshops but hey it was a weekend away and looking at all the pretty stuff. I stayed at Brad and Sophie's place at Campsie, a very nice unit with the deepest bathtub I have seen in a long time, you had to climb in for a shower, it has a half shower screen so it could get a bit dodgy getting out. I was driving to Homebush on Friday morning peak hour traffic and I was sandwiched in between 3 black police landcruisers and 3 unmarked cars so something was going down, I resisted the urge to follow them. The show organised a little train to take you from the car park, it finished at 4 and I walked out with a 16 kilo box at 4.05, luckily the man that sold me the Accuquilt walked out a few minutes later as I was walking across the park and carried my Accuquilt to my car.

I did 3 workshops at the show and I bought an Accuquilt, the first workshop was with Janome and we used a monster of an embroidery sewing machine, I think you would need a degree to use this machine to it's full potential, we made a notebook cover with free motion embroidery and a programmed design as well.

I also did a Sashiko workshop and a quick one on the Brother Scan n Cut. 

We went to Sweet Belem cakes on Saturday oh my they are beautiful, then off to the Bonsai shop KMart Miranda and Sushi Train Cronulla for dinner and then a game of pool and a couple of beers at Kingsgrove Park Hotel. I had a great time away and I came back refreshed a bit stiff after driving for 5 1/2 hours but what the hey.

Will I do it all again in September for the Rosehill show? I'm not sure, we'll see.

May!!!!!!

 

May!!!!!!

 Yes it's May and the middle of the month. My wifi has been down so my
 computer has had no internet, the printer wouldn't work and I had to bite the
 bullet and call the tech guy in Wollongong, who is a bit arrogant which is why
 I put it off for so long, anywho after him fiddling with the system we're back!

A lot has happened since the last blog post, I went to Scrub Stitching, that
 was a great weekend and I met so many lovely people and got so much 
sewing and quilting done. The Magpie bag was my gift in the make it, bake it,
 fake it draw. Then the printed bag with all our names on it. Oh and the goody
 bag! I made a project bag from a Kmart tea towel with koalas on it, I was 
finishing it the day before leaving home and I realised I had the koalas upside
 down so I ripped off the binding and re did it, I was hoping that one of the 
overseas visitors would get it and Deana did, so I was happy.

Above is the group photo and also the chookshed stitchers. I got the quilting 

finished on Grant's quilt, it just needs the sashing and binding done. I 

assembled my Moda Love quilt as well.

Then a few days after I got back we got a kitten! this is Livvy, Dave didn't 

want a cat but he has taken responsibility for feeding her, hence the lamb

 shank in her bowl.

Then I put two quilts in the Gunnedah Show and got Firsts for both I was

 pleased and surprised. I got my Churn Dash quilt quilted by Jackson of House

 of Jackson, Chooky picked it up and dropped it off for me I just need to bind

 it. I had better get off to work so I can pay for more quilting.

It's been busy here

 Howdy, It's been a while, in my defense it's been busy here and there's been a few minor traumas. 

I had a tooth pulled, face flared up and was very swollen after 35 minutes of the dentist trying to find the broken root, then an infection so not much fun. 

We went to the Dip and got our wood hopefully we have enough for winter.

Kate and I went to Dubbo for Craftalive it was a great day.

I have read a few good books as well.

I got a puncture on my way to Coolah sewing group, a very nice man stopped and helped, inmy defense I could have changed the tyre myself but he noticed I was wearing white and thought I wouldn't want to lie down in the red dirt. subsequently my car ended up with a wrecked shock absorber cover so I was off the road a bit.

Then we went to Wollongong for a friends memorial service, it was sad but nice to catch up with people that we haven't seen for years.

The local football club had a fun day with pig races as a fundraiser, it was a great day.

Recently I had a bit of an accident/incident where a 30 kilo aluminium plant stand was pushed into my foot and it popped my big toe nail off so I was out of action for a week until I could put a shoe on.

Friends stayed and painted our garage ans the eaves around the house.

The garden is going great the little flower bed at the back door has Marigolds popping up everywhere.

Brad and Sophie came up for the Easter weekend. 

It has been a bit hectic.

I have been doing a bit of sewing as well but that can wait for another post after Scrub Stitchin....

Sew it Show it- Shades of Blue

 

The Challenge: This one is Shades of Blue. Easy, peasy.  Add shades of blue to your project. Show us your winter blues. It can be any stitched project, just make sure there is a shade of blue somewhere.

I love blue, so I decided to join Carla from Creatin' in the Sticks even though it is mid summer here so no winter blues. 

I made this quilt as a donation quilt for a woman here in town whose daughter suicided a few years ago, I don't know the woman but she works at the local Woolworths supermarket and she is always pleasant and friendly. She runs a raffle every year for Beyond Blue which is a suicide prevention organisation , so I asked her if she would like a quilt for her raffle, she said yes so this is it. 

The quilt is called Warm Hugs and is a Meadow Mist Design quilt pattern by Cheryl Brickey. I am quiltinig on my domestic machine a very simple straight line design.

Go and check out the other bloggers listed for today

Mrs P Designs USA

Quilting Gail

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Words and Stitches

Just Sew Quilter

Thank you for stopping by.

January 2023

Well Hello 2023 I feel like this month snuck up on me and knocked me over. IThis post has a lot of pictures.

We ended the year with a quick trip to Wollongong, Anorina from sameliasmum.com and I caught up for a shopping spree and lunch, it was great to see her again, watch out if you do see her she is an influencer of fabric buying. I bought some lovely clothes and a lot of fabric.

Son no.3 and his partner came up to our place for Christmas day and stayed for almost a week it was great to see them, then my niece and her little family came for a couple of days. We took the boat out to Lake Keepit with a new skitube, the little girls wouldn't go on it after seeing Brad being dumped from it, there was too much air in the tube and he couldn't stay on.

It was a bit overcast but a beautiful day.

A gorgeous Lily popped up in the garden, it wasn't there last year. My cute pink tree makes me smile.

My neighbours night flowering cactus was amazing.

Sophie and Brad have there first quilt, I started this over 15 years ago it was the second quilt that I machine stitched, I lost some of the pieces for the borders so it went into the cupboard for a long holiday.

This is a project bag that I made for a friend I amazed myself with the quilting it turned out so good. This is the first book fininsh of the year it was a great story set in Queensland but a lot of the places mentioned were around here too.

That's it.