Birthday Quilt

It was Club Quilt Sunday yesterday and I started making a quilt top using my birthday fat quaters. The block is 4.5 inches so it will take me a while. This is what I acheived yesterday.Once again thankyou to all those who sent me a gift.

Birthday

Well here they all are. Thankyou for all your birthday wishes and the fabric,Kerry, June, Helen, Fiona,Donna,Bec,Maree,Aunty Alison, Peg,Gai,Jo Jo,Karri, Alison,Lynda, Anita and Jenny.I have an idea for a quilt.

Birthday fat quarters

In my last post I explained about the birthday fat quarter swap. This has come in the mail during the last week. I still have another seven to receive. I am opening them all on my birthday the 14th. Will show you the contents then.

10am til 10pm

It was Club Quilt Sunday this week and we decided to have a 10am til 10pm day as Monday is a public holiday. It took me all day to make the extra blocks I needed to complete this scrappy top. I have sewn the borders on today.
I am in two birthday fabric swaps. I joined in one organised by Maree (On my Verandah),there are seven of us in this swap.Whilst we were at Nundle for "The girls day in the country", 19 of us decided to do a fabric swap for our birthdays. Chooky Blue did all the organising(thanks Donna). It is my birthday on the 14th and I have already received 5 packages. I am keeping them all until the day . I will be posting pictures of the contents. It is sooooo exciting, can't wait.

Ridgecrest

This is the other project I worked on at Ridgecrest.BOM made with Peace on earth fabrics. I have another 3 blocks to add then there will be a red spoy border and a green border all the way round.

Ridgecrest

We have just returned from a weekend retreat at Ridgecrest. This is one of the spectacular views. It is not far from Wellington in NSW and overlooks Burrendong dam.Ridgecrest is run by the Baptist church but allows anyone to hire their facilities. We stay in "the Lodge".Eight of us went and we had a great time.

I made this scrappy quilt top, but I am planning to add more.Thanks to Peg who did all the organising but couldn't go, we all missed you heaps.

Weekend away

Where does time go? I can't believe that it is a month since I have done a post.I have been to Sydney for Easter, and have had 4 grandchildren and a friend to visit for a week.Then we had a weekend at Carol's farm. Six of us slept for two nights with two more visiting in the day time. It was organised for us to stay in pyjamas for the whole weekend.(We did shower and put fresh ones on each day). It was great.

This is some of what I did over our pyjama party weekend. It doesn't quite grab me. It needs to stand out more. I might make a tble topper out of it. Peg suggested I put the plain white in and it does look better.Still deciding what to do.

Going Away again!

Not much sewing has been happening this week. I have started a black and white project, this is how the blocks look, but as it is school holidays we are going to see our grandsons and bringing some of them back to Narromine for a holiday.

This is the label put on the quilt from the last post. I will be delivering the quilt whilst we are in Sydney. Hope everyone had a great Easter.Golf is in full swing and I have had one round that was almost golf, the rest have been very ordinary.

Finished quilt

After finishing the top on Sunday, I decided to quilt it on Monday. I have stippled the small squares in the centre and have quilted straight lines both ways on the outer squares.

5 hours both days. The close up of the quilting doesn't show up in my photos.

Just the label to do.

Finished quilt top

It was Club Quilt Narromine get together today, we had 10 ladies turn up for a great day. Shiela,an old friend visited us , it was lovely to see her again. I completed the quilt I am making as a gift for Kalan, who turned one last December. The top is complete, I will quilt it this week.

Girls Day in the Country

I am back from a great weekend spent in Nundle at The Girls Day in the Country. Rosalie Quinlan and Leanne Beasley were the guest tutors and it was all organised by Kerry Swain from Cottage on the Hill. What a wonderful time we had. This is the project I am trying to achieve. It is punch needle and designed by Rosalie, hers is the front of a bag. I am going to make mine into a wall hanging.

This is as far as I have got, it takes a lot of work. The grass looks a bit dodgy, its verigated thread.The golfing season starts tomorrow, we begin with 9 holes and a delicious lunch so I am, going to help organise that this afternoon, will keep you posted on how I went.

Baby Quilt

It was Club Quilt Narromine sewing Sunday yesterday, although we were few in number we had a good day. This is a quilt I am making for a friends baby. It is to celebrate his first birthday and christening. I have used wildflower serenade fabric. It will be finished soon.

This is the centre.The pattern is a freebie it is called Canterbury (www.redroosterfabrics.com).

The traveller returns.

Having had the most relaxing holiday, I am back to my wonderful life.Here are just a few photos to view until I have some sewing project to display.Sydney was our first port of call.

Coffs Harbour,on the mid North coast of NSW. NSW has some of the best beaches and scenery I have ever seen, it is just beautiful.

Waterfalls at Dorrigo.

The beach at our resort at Coffs Harbour. The day after we arrived in Narromine, we were comandeered to help clean an old rental property, owned by our son. This took us the best part of ten days!!! I have got my sewing machine out and have started on a project. Looking forward to seeing all those going to GDITC at Nundle.

Holiday.

DH's brother and his wife are visiting us from England for a month so I shall be on an extended holiday until the end of Feb. Will be in touch when I get back. Happy sewing to every one.

MIA

First apologies to all the bloggers that check out my blog and have discovered that I am knowhere to be found. This is what I have been doing, painting the inside of my house.

You don't really get the difference that a coat of paint has made, but I am really happy to have done it.

We had a Club Quilt sewing day today and made Maverick stars, this is what I achieved.

My laundry.

The computer room. I am submitting my decorating project as my first finished challenge of the month.