Monday, 29 August 2022
What kind of a quilting blog is this?!
Saturday, 20 August 2022
Saturday Sit n Sew
Kay and a few of her fellow lifestyle villagers hosted a sit n sew at their village in Wollert today. There was lots of chatting, laughing and eating and whilst lots of people sewed other people did more of the eating part! You might work out who that was once you've seen the pictures of what we got up to!
Debbie worked on a project for her granddaughter and then started sewing this cute quilt. In this picture she's playing with the layout.
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
1 hour
Cryptic title hey?
I started cleaning and sorting my studio (sewing room) back in April and I was doing really well until I injured my hand so I was unable to finish. As a consequence, anything I'd shoved into a pile or a box has remained there. I'm a very messy person so there were a lot of boxes and piles! My youngest son, Alex, is celebrating his 21st birthday soon with a party on the studio deck which means I have to empty one of my sewing spaces into the other. And that means I have to finish tidying! Arghh! So, I set my alarm for 1 hour to see what I could get done in that time.
I decided to tackle this area first as it's the most common dumping ground and is where I'm likely to put my sewing things from the "party room" so that Judy can still have access to her quilting frame if she needs to come and use it.
Sunday, 14 August 2022
Diamond Pop Wedding Quilt
Sunday, 7 August 2022
Retreat!
I'm home after a fantastic weekend away. My car is still full of my sewing things but I'm sure I'll get around to emptying it soon. Maybe.
Judy, Kate, Kay and I stayed at a lovely Airbnb in Ballarat. We're spoiled when we go to The Retreat, Gisborne as all the cutting boards and ironing things are there ready for us to use so it's tricky if we go to sew somewhere else. The Airbnb had a table we could eat at in the kitchen and a separate table in the living/dining room so we could use that table to sew on and not have to remove everything to eat. The kitchen was also big enough for us to lay out our cutting boards on one of the workbenches so they were at a nice height for ease of use.
We all met at Millrose Quilting and Gallery in Ballan on Thursday morning and had a lovely time looking at their fabric ranges and we then went to their little café for hot chocolates before driving on to Ballarat. We stopped at Beechworth bakery for lunch and then checked out Gail's Patchwork Emporium while we waited for check in time at the Airbnb.
The other ladies did a lot of sewing over the weekend. I hardly did any which I found amusing because I was raring to sew my Rugby Stars! Here's Kate sewing flying geese and half looking at me suspiciously!
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
One sleep!
I’m going to retreat tomorrow with Judy, Kate and Kay woo! We’ll be staying in an Airbnb in Ballarat. I’m so excited! When I started this blog I decided to post on Wednesdays and Saturdays but I’ve been so busy packing today I forgot all about planning a post! Not that anyone is reading this yet! Ha ha!
So the one picture I have to show my imaginary readers is this one. Minnie came on holiday with our family for the first time back in January and every time she sees an open boot she jumps in just in case! Not this time Minnie! Besides, there was no room after I loaded my retreat things inside!
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