Quilting of the Daisy Quilt

It pays to hang onto your Patchwork & Stitching Magazines if you are like me.

This one is now all quilted and complete

I’m happy with the results.

Felt Fun

A little bit of fun from the pattern and kit purchased from Thread & Ginger Patchwork Boutique last weekend.

Wool Felt Project

Some yummy wool felt and a lovely pin cushion pattern purchased from Thread & Ginger Patchwork.  A nice Sunday project.

Saturday afternoon date

Hubby saw a story on TV last weekend about a little shop at Newstead called Dello Mano.  He asked if I’d like to visit so today it was a date!  Who says no to visiting a chocolate shop???? 

This Pistachio & Rosewater hand made Brownie made it all the way home.  Wonders will never cease!

(sorry for the out of focus pic, my withdrawal tremors are triggered around chocolate!)

Christmas In July

A little stitchery I’m working on.  Pattern by Cinderberry Stitches, one of my favourite designers.

A couple of finishing touches….

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and now it’s complete.

Life is Beautiful

 

A Travel Journal Cover – but I think I might find some ric-rac or similar to ‘dress’ the outside circle edge.   Perhaps it’s a bit wonky because I was hand stitching at midnight?

I do love Cosmo Seasons Variegated range of threads.

Big Quilt Completion

After being undecided as to how I would quilt my quilt top, I bit the bullet and sent my Spinning Charms Quilt to Koolkat Quilting  in Toowoomba. Kathy at Koolkat suggested a couple of quilting designs,from  which I chose ‘sticky buns’.   Brenda from Widebacks emailed me several backing suggestions of which I liked  Black  Chrysanthemums on White.  I bound it in a Black Homespun.  Today was it’s first outing as my ‘show and tell’ to my monthly quilting meeting at The Quilters Store in Salisbury.

While at the The Quilters Store I purchased some Hobbs Iron-On Cotton Wadding which I look forward to trying out soon on a smaller quilt top.

Birth Wall Quilt

On this lovely long weekend while getting over the flu, I finished of a little quilt for my sister’s new baby boy and my first nephew who is already 3 months old.  She doesn’t sew and therefore wouldn’t know the effort put in to make this but I started this tradition with the birth of my first niece and felt obliged to continue with….

.  I’ve packaged a thumb tac in with it for posting off today, so hopefully this makes it up on the wall?

  I quite like how it looks with the light behind it thanks to very colourful backing fabric.

This one…who knows what happened to it when it reached it’s destination…..

  And another early addition to my tradition.  Perhaps I should have kept to this same style for all of them?

Stitched Critters

 

Who’s been digging in the garden?

Why so sad?

Flying free…

 

These stitcheries are part of Jeans Garden Block of the Month.  All blocks are now stitched, awaiting some finishing touches before the fun of quilting it.

Quilt progress update

Sunday and a little sewing later in the afternoon.  This is what was accomplished….

I put the 12 blocks together & laid them out to audition their position in the quilt..

Then there was some time to complete the pinwheels that are included in the border.

 

I’m thinking about turning the blocks into a quilt as you go method after originally thinking I might send this away for quilting – so it’s back to considering that now…

Hope you like it!

Week away Sailing to Nth QLD

Under the gateway bridge, Brisbane on…..

….calm seas to…..

1st stop Airlie Beach

Where there was a mansion on top of a hill!

A towel animal made by our cabin person ‘Anderson’. This is a nice memory, unlike the 87 stairs to the restaurant from our cabin each meal time!!!! Yes there were lifts but DH is a fitness nutter so there was only stairs for this little brown duck :(

my lanyard, made by me, got some nice comments….

A tree in the Cairns Botanical Gardens damaged by cyclone Yasi

Overlooking Port Douglas 4 Mile Beach

on our day trip to Mossman Gorge

Day 2 to Kuranda and the Tablelands

A coffee stop in Mareeba with a lovely outlook from the verandah….

And then the journey back to Brisbane from Cairns.

A little progress….

You wouldn’t believe how much cutting and sewing there is in the pile of material above.

This quilt has to be one of my biggest projects this year to date.

Easter Over-load!

 

You’d never think that in our household that the Easter Bunny myth has been exposed!

Look at the bounty of Red Tulip and Cadbury gifted this year.

Happy Easter

I hope the bunny finds you!

Dragonflies appeal

There is something peaceful about them that draws me in….

So when I saw the Life Is Beautiful pattern book at AQC last weekend I had to buy it.

 

 

 

 

So many beautiful stitcheries !

Exciting Melbourne

 

More than just a trip to go to AQC…….

From the fire ball show outside Crown Casino to……

 

 

 

 

…things I saw on the street…

…..and on the footpath….

to the buildings….. and out to the beach……

It  was a weekend never to forget.