Nundle report

It all comes and goes too quick!...A bit like Christmas when you were a kid!
You look so forward to something, then in the blink of an eye....its over.
There should be an extra day between Saturday and Sunday!
So Girls day in the Country is over for another year...lots of laughter, friendships, stitching and eating.
It was such a good weekend...Kerry deserves a medal for all her organisation....she should get an OAM at least!
My photos look like everyone else's . but here they are.....

The blogging gang

Some show and tell on the lawn

 Its not that bad Deb!

 Some antique quilts from the trunk show

 GDITC  2014 will be here before we know it. Then we can do this all over again for the 7th year!
Block off 15th /16th March with Lynette Anderson as tutor
Thanks to a great bunch of women for an awesome weekend.

showtime

Not my normal stitching!

An elderly friend, who ran the craft stall at our school fete for many years, has gone into a nursing home.
She is now doing a wonderful job of delegating from her bed, as the fete is on in April.
She has given me 2 jobs....sewing buttons on kitchen towels ( just 17)!!
 ...and doing a football logo on a rug she crocheted before she lost the use of her hands....this is for the raffle...so I had better get it right!

Saturday night found me at our local show.

There is nothing like a country show...the colours...the smells of horses, cattle, sheep, chooks, dogs, dagwood dogs, fairy floss, BBQ steaks. ...The noises of side show alley, the rodeo, the dogem cars and screams from the wild rides and my favourite the ferris wheel.

The pavilion filled with show entries of needlecraft, photography, art, cakes, flowers, produce etc. Brings back memories of childhood. 

Bring on the Royal Easter Show....I Love it!

bad hair day chook

On Wednesday, 49 of our weaners..(.thats baby calves...just off their mothers)...went off to market.   Here are the mums standing around the truck saying goodbye....so sad...but then again , I think they are saying thank God they have gone.....I'm sick of breastfeeding!

2 happy working dogs!

Till next time...I'm off to Nundle this weekend..

A few finishes

Traditional 9 patch swap blocks for February.....tick

Natalie Bird..True friends tote bag...SAL project for February.....tick

back view

A bargain desk from an OP shop...painted and installed.....tick

An old ladder  rescued from the council pick up...cleaned and roughly painted...now has a new use as a quilt holder.....tick

Family room repaired  and painted after storm damage ...just need to fill the walls with quilts and stitcheries again!.....tick

Just arrived today...my new Babies to play with....well...I don't have grandchildren!  

This is my new sport...(don't think I'll love it as much as stitching though!)..just hope it keeps me fit!

till next time 

cheers Lea 

A SAL Finish

This is the first time I have joined in on Chookyblue's Stitch-a-long.

January's projects were... an Annie Downes shoe bag and a Natalie Bird thread catcher.

The thread catchers became rather addictive and I ended up making 4

 this is the machine I learned to sew on...I made all Barbie's clothes. My mother bought it when she was a little girl, so she learned to sew on it too.  I love it ...its one of my favourite possessions!

The shoe bags were also a lot of fun and I made 2..but have plans for more..(watch out girls, guess what mum is giving you for your birthdays!)

I'm trying to use fabric from my stash ...this is the year I'm going to make a dent in it!...famous last words....no matter how much fabric you have...you never have the right one!

Just a little anniversary shot...although its a little dark.
We had a wonderful dinner with friends at their place in Manly..
( It was their anniversary also.)
Fabulous food and wines were consumed and a good night was had by all.

Manly beach the day after Australia Day...wet and windy...but still beautiful!

I'm off to start the next project now...another Natalie Bird..out of Red Home.
Its just so good to have someone to stitch-a-long with!
cheers Lea

A New Year Start

 Finally... I have emerged from a huge sewing room clean up.....It just got soooo overwhelming and I couldn't even sew in there!...even Chooky volunteered to come and sort me out!......I was heading for a program of Hoarders!

I started with this.......

And got to this......

 I know... I still have a lot to do...but at least now I have a creative mess...and I produced these little thread catchers...They are part of our Stitch-a-long for January....and they REALLY are addictive!

 My neighbour arrived with these little treats...they are just so cute...how could you eat them?....The little purple guy looks sad :(

Have a great Australia Day...
I'm off to the beach at Manly.. and.. its our 28th wedding anniversary, so I'm going to have a good time!
Cheers Lea

At last..a sewing day!

Finally finished month 1 of 'the aunts quilt' BOM with Amitie....YAY!
Mind you...they are up to month 4 ....but hey....I can catch up!
One block is needle turn appliqué ..the other a pieced block I did by hand. (still wondering why)
The colour doesn't show up here well..but the fabrics are cute repro prints.






So today I cut out month 2




DD2 was home last week and she is a budding seamstress...she loves vintage and rummaging through my old patterns..(never throw any thing out) and stash of..(should have thrown out back in the eighties) fabrics.....
she found a pattern and a cream silk and decided to make a nightie.
I chose a cotton floral and made one too.
We had a lovely day together...and I remember my mother making the same nightie and brunch coat for me back in the early 70's.







The worst part was that I discovered my big plastic box of fabrics smelt rather musty.
How do you prevent that?......So in the 41 degree heat of yesterday..I washed metres and metres of old fabrics...at least they dried quickly...as I put out each load, I could bring in the one before!

I was quite amused to see that all these fabrics had small squares missing from one corner.....the result of making a millennium quilt back in 2000 ...and a 21/2" square was taken from every piece of material in my house...the resulting quilt has 2000 different fabrics in it...(I also collected from friends - so not all were hiding here!)...

I'd better get back to my BOM.
Till next time..cheers Floss



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