Challenge 9 for me is a Christmas project. So I will work on this beautiful piece of Sashiko. I bought this at Deb’s Cottage Crafts at Coonabarabran. She has a lovely shop. Lots of temptation. Good luck to all who are challenging themselves this July.
If you were at Scrub Stitch’n you might have seen the basics of a baby Janis was making . It was to be a donation but since June was time pressed for me I asked Janis if I could buy it from her. We did a swap instead and then . I added some appliqué , the baby was born Thursday last week. So now I will add his name, Andy, and have it ready by Monday.
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| Night Night , Sleep Tight Vegemite Quilt. ' Now which arrangement suits once best? |
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Well I didn’t get my challenge done. Quilting my N Z memory quilt. It is on the machine and it has started. I haven’t used my long arm for a while and it took 2-3 days to maintain it , get the stitching tension right and working out the quilting design.
I decided on a rustic bar graph look for the border. Large stippling for the sky and I will quilt the rest in some custom way.
With Bernie being back and forth to the hospital June went to fast. He is all good now , the pain is gone finally. He ended up having a cyst on his spine but it’s all gone and all good now. Stay tuned !
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My son and his children love to go fishing. My GD doesn’t go as much anymore , too many girly things to do. This time they went off shore and she went and loved it.
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| Cheeky |
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| Both being silly now. |
The challenge this month is to quilt my New Zealand memory quilt.
Yeah!! I want to get it done .
Well can you believe it’s June already . Not a lot happened with my Lucy Boston blocks this month. Holidays and health issues to sort , Bernie’s back and my cataract surgery to name a couple. I’ve had one eye done and it’s great. They have found Bernie has a cyst in his vertebra column pressing on his spinal cord, 8 mm x 9 mm in size in the L4/L5 area and it’s causing him a huge amount of pain. We have a specialist apt in the city on Thursday. We go from there. I just hope this hurries 12 weeks of that amount of pain is too much.
13 Lucy filler blocks done and dusted. Now for June’s Challenge.
I wanted to share some gathering I did at my mums today.. Macadamias at all stages . It is very hard work to open them I can tell you. They are great fresh . I will have to add a photo of the tree next time.
I am just checking in with my “Chookshed Stitch’n goal. I am working on my Lucy Boston EPP.
I have now prepared all the cardboard templates for the last of the filler blocks and I have done eight of them.
May challenge is to work on Lucy Boston. That is great as I have so many other things going on at the moment . My dream is to get this far one day.
I just had to share this of my granddaughter
The day care centre she first went to still has her photo on the fence . She saw it the other day. growing up too fast .
I am so blessed to be able to go to Scrub Stitch’n each year, now a 5 day retreat , well 4 1/2 anyway. It’s great , lots of ladies I have known many for years now. Then there is often a newbie or two and the range in ages makes it even better . Women enjoying friendship and quilting. Thanks to Chookyblue for the organisation. This year I shared with my quilting buddy Gail. It was so good for a couple of golden oldies to return I loved seeing Kate and Sandy at retreat again . Not that they are old but they were there in the beginning.
The theme was “ Winter Wonderland in the Warrumbungles “ Dress up and dinner party night is always fun as is sharing the quilts at show and tell.
I worked on ‘Sunshine and Lollipops ‘ by Annie Downs using Tilda Jubilee fabric. It was slow work as these sort of quilts are. This year I decided to enjoy the company and not rush to finish quilts .Enjoy the quilts made by the ladies who attended and the dress up night photos. Sorry not every one is not captioned.
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| With Kylie and Donna |
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| Shiralee stitches shop brought along by Sandy |
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| Kates goodies |
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| 2 Confetti quilts different fabrics mine is on the left ( Tied with a Ribbon ) |
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| Showing off my “Pining for you” quilt |
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| Who’s leg is that? 😂😂 |
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