Ridgecrest Retreat

Club Quilt have an annual retreat to Ridgecrest which over looks Burrendong Dam. Here are Peg, Kath and myself enjoying the view. We always have a great time and thankyou to everyone for making it special, and especially to Peg for organising it .

Paper Bag Swap

This is the bag I received from Loris in Dongara WA. Club Quilt and Dongara Patchworkers had a swap. We each sent a partner some fabric and bits and pieces, then made an item and sent it back .Loris made me this lovely bag. Thankyou Loris.

Gardeners Journal

This is the second block for a Gardeners Journal. Only seven to go.

I'm back

First apologises for having a slack attack. Hopefully it won't return.My grand children attend Oyster Bay Public school and I donate quilts to raffle at their annual Art and Craft Festival. This year they are celebrating 40 years and I was asked to make a banner. This is what I came up with.

Club quilt have had a swap going with a patchwork group in WA at Dongara. We sent each other fabric and embelishments, used these to make something and sent back the finished items. Loris sent me lots of ribbons and beads, I made her this bag (above).

This is a sewing caddy I have made for my swap partner out of the green fabric that she sent me.

Gardeners Journal

I have joined Chooky Blue in the Gardeners Journal Stitch along. This is block A, only eight to go.

Potting the plants

Lady Bug

Weather Vane.

Butterfly.

The potting shed.

GDITC

The blogging girls all met up again, they are a fun group and it was lovely to catch up with them all.

Here are Annie Downes and Kerry Swane who did a great job at our recent visit to Nundle to a Girls Day in the Country. What a wonderful weekend we had.

Surprise visit

These are my two sons J and A and my DH. DH had a "funny turn" and the boys drove from Sydney to check he was OK and as you can see he is fine.

Paper Bag swap

In 2008 Pat organised a paper bag swap quilt. We all did a centre for the quilt then it was passed to some else to do one side of the centre, which they sewed on to the middle, then the next person made a piece to fit the top of these two pieces and so on until 8 people had added a strip and we received a complete quilt. We got our tops back at our Christmas get together in 2008 and everyone was thrilled with the results.The lovely ladies who contributed to my quilt were Joan,Carolyn, Kerry, Pat, Gai D, Gai P, Peg and Jan.Thanks girls you did a great job. I quilted it last weekend and have hung it up in my kitchen, it looks great.

Internet Pattern

I found these blocks carefully folded and have a vague recollection of finding a pattern on the net to use up scraps, I decided to make a tablerunner and am very happy with the results. Another finish for OPAM/Gymb.These blocks were only a couple of years old.

More OPAM/GYMB

Whilst tidying up I found this quilt top in a bag. Spurred on by OPAM and GYMB I finished it and it now adorns my kitchen table. I worked out it must be approx 9/10 years old.

Tidying Up

This is what I have been up to, tidying up my sewing cupboard. A great improvement on before.

Star Quilt

I have had this top in my cupboard for at least 3 years and thanks to the OPAM challenge I decided to look in my cupboard to see what I would like to finish. This jumped out at me, so I quilted it over the weekend and I am really glad I did.

Birthday Fabric Quilt Finished

I have finished the quilt. It looks better in real life. I will bring it to Nundle for GDINC.

Borders

I decided to finish off the squares to form a border on my birthday fabrics quilt. I have started to quilt it and will have it finished this weekend.

Owen's Quilt

Friends of my son and DIL have a 6 year old son, Owen, who has been diagnosed with luekaemia so I thought I would make him a quilt to help brighten his days during treatment