I finished the shaggy quilt for my daughter in law Michelle last night. I put a small border on it to finish it off.
I purchased these beautiful fabrics on our weekend at the Cottage on the Hill. They are Japanese and are called Daiwabo selection for EE Schenck Co. Not sure how I will use them yet. Any suggestions? I have 11 half meters.
For the past week Narromine have been playing their championships. This is played over four rounds of 18 holes on two Tuesdays and two Wednesdays. I am a pretty average golfer but on the first Tuesday I had the round of my life playing 11 under my handicap(84) which was 26. I lost 5 shots to bring me back to 21 handicap. The next day I played 1 below my new handicap (89)much to my amazement.
I was leading the handicap. Yesterday I did it again playing right to my handicap (90)and today was the final round and I managed to hold it all together to play 1 over my handicap(91). I won the A grade handicap event.Our golf course is all taken care of by volunteers, so we are really lucky to have it in such great condition. As you can see we don't have grass greens, we putt on a mixture of fine sand mixed with oil. We have to smooth out the sand with a special rake everytime we putt.
This is how far I have progressed with the shaggy quilt for my daughter in law. I need to cut the edges and wash and dry it.
On the 8th August Carol organised a trip to Cobar which is approx 250 kilometers west of Narromine.The Cobar Quilt Shop is well worth a visit with a huge range of fabrics in stock. I thought I could use this ruler as I have been wanting to make a quilt using diamond shapes.
My daughter in law has requested a shaggy quilt. The fabric is Cosmic cricket, I hope she likes it.
This range is Cider Mill Road by Nancy Halverson, I bought a layer cake.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
