August Escape- Baradine

 On the last weekend in August ,Chookyblue AKA Donna, organised a retreat for us. There was about 16 of us altogether . We had a lovely time. Thank you Donna. There were many lovely quilts and stitched items to show however I have only a couple to share. Mainly because my photos weren’t that great. The weather was very chilly at this time of the year but I do love sewing and sharing a coffee with friends in the cooler weather.

Ready set sew!

Colours matched cut and ready to sew

Not finished yet one more sashing to apply

Love this fabric.Can you see the little sewing notions in the design? The fabric design is called” Stag and Thistle “ .by Brett Lewis 

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My beautiful friend and travel buddy, Gail

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Gail’s quilts above and below

This one all hand embroidered

This one of Natasha’s is amazing

You have to admire a hand done hexie quilt by Mary

Finally my NewZealand memory quilt completely finished.

Amazing Brenda

Meet Brenda! Brenda was 91 years old last Monday. She is my role model. Brenda comes to our quilting retreats at Baradine. She is always working on something new and amazing. This show and tell was recycling. Bags and things from Denim. Brenda makes the most beautiful quilts as well. 

The bags are made of Denim and using some patchwork techniques  

So much work

Her cute bears from last year

Brenda is making this one up as she goes.

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Happy Birthday Brenda!@

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Lots of Firsts

 A few photos to add to my family albums

Great grandma’s ( mum’s) first dinner out with her newest great grandchild no 16 little Arthur. 
My sister’s 8 th grandchild .

First spring flower , just a bit early. 

First time I’ve ever seen this many Adult  dingos together on Frazier Island now Known as (K’gari) 

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First time I was worried about the boys fishing. Look out Dale

Colt’s first blue ribbon for Shotput

Ev’s first blue ribbon for javelin

Her first basketball state champs under 14’s

Andy has his quilt

I think I left the completed full photo out last time. Baby Andy is enjoying his quilt now. 

 

Baby Leo Quilt Finished and July’s Chookshed Challenge

 I have finished the baby quilt I was working on and I’m happy with the outcome. I had a lot of trouble with the tension on my long arm it took me days to get it right but I persevered and I  think I have it. One of the encoder wires was slightly loose and once I corrected that all was well. 

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I got to put his name on it because it took longer than I expected. 

                          I am finally happy I worked out the tension and I think it looks pretty good. 

June , July was full of hospital visits but all is very well now and I have just finished a two week teaching contract so I am looking forward to settling in at home for August.

 I didn’t get a lot done on my Christmas project for Chookshed Stitchers but I’ll catch up this month.

Not finished yet

Chookshed Stitchers Challenge 9

 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. 

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Baby Leo Quilt

 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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This is the one.

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Chookshed Stitchers Challenge“ June “ Quilting New Zealand Quilt.

 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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If you don’t like fishing - scroll back.

 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. 

   Parrot fish . 

Cheeky

Both being silly now.

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June’s Challenge for Chookshed Stitchers

 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.