Lightning Ridge via Broken Hill

 The trip begins. 

Today we travelled to Narrabri and just out of town we discovered “The Compact Array”. 

What is that you ask, because I did. 

 It’s a set of 6 satellite dishes on a railway track that allow the dishes the best position to study our galaxy and the sun.The whole world relies on this data. The best is that they are  all Australian Made . Evan’s Deacon from Brisbane did the steel work and all technical , electrical and digital is done by the CSIRO.(Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research  Organisation ) these dishes link with the one in the Warren-bungles near Coonabarabran and  the one in  Canberra and they produce a large picture of space.

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The country looks so good right now

Paddocks full of these. 

                                                          Wild flowers every where. 

A flimsy finish for ‘Simply Serene ‘

 I just loved this quilt when I saw it done in bright colours so that’s what I chose for ” Simply Serene”

Chooky chose this for the group project for 2026  Scrub Stitch’n for those who wanted to do it. 

I’m not sure if it was the block colours or the black and white stripe affect against them that most impressed me. Any way I am happy with it. 

Retreat Loxton Lodge Inverell

 This is the second ' year our little Goondiwindi group have been to  Loxton Lodge Inverell for retreat. It was a very cold weekend but the Lodge was cozy inside. Cold nights and mornings but beautiful sunny days.This is a very well set up retreat venue. We are booked for next year. 

Gail has been intent on getting through her stash so she worked on a couple of simple quilts. I think the colours made them special. 2 down plenty to go. 

Gail and Jo studying the quilt. 

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I was trying out the “Rapid Fire Hunters Star “ ruler. I chose Gingham from spotlight. Peg made a quilt last year that inspired me. It was a slightly different way of doing Hunters Star than the one I chose. 

Making the stars

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1/4 of block

I am happy! 

Probably should have cropped my shoes… but they do match the block  ha ha !

Jo made Christmas trees and houses and more trees 

Marg made a colour wash heart. 

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Pretty Project and Animals

 I’m working on a new project….can you guess what it is.? I’m using fat quarters and left over pieces, mostly Kaffe with a few extra pieces. 

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Hopefully you’ll see it finished tomorrow

Now for a couple of little cuties,. Minnie has become a very cheeky and loved  member of the family and her latest toy is a pressure pack lid or is it really a muzzle???  

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Then a couple of weeks ago this little fellow was discovered in a hollow piece of log I had jammed -- in the fork of a tree just near my clothes line. This is a little possum. Sadly he / she never stayed though. It just spent the day. I think something may have chased it in there and then it couldn’t make it home before daylight. He was so close which you generally never see in the day time. They are nocturnal animals. So super cute unless of course they get into your roof. 

Recycle Reuse

 I don’t know but I haven’t had much sewing mojo lately. After everything that’s been happening lately I’m glad to be home and getting into my sewing room this weekend.  First I cut down two duvet covers from double to single otherwise they had to find another home. I bought them for the caravan but then we had to change vans and so I have them in the house now and they had hardly been used. 

The measuring and cutting. Oh and the pumpkin was my weight to hold it still. 

Now it’s done and the beds have a new look. 

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Kade’s Quilt Delivered.

My nephew Kade turned 18 last month. I finally finished his birthday gift. He wanted a fish quilt. I started it at Baradine. I had a few troubles because I was determined to use a lot of my stash. Finally it came together.  

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Getting it quilted 

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And it’s finished

And my first use of my new labels

And it’s all wrapped and ready to go.. I hope he likes his fish quilt .

REHAB AND RELAXATION FOR TWO

 We’ve just had a week of R&R . Lots of grandkid love , nice dinners and beach walks. Oh and we scooped the pool at the pub raffle. Vege tray , fruit tray and seafood voucher,

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Welcomed Visitors

 What a lovely couple of days we’ve had. Janis and Mick visited for 2 nights. Janis showed me how to make a butterfly. We fired up the pizza oven and Friday night Bernie cooked up some lamb shanks and my quilting buddy Gail also joined us. So nice to have friends pop in . We went for a drive around and checked out Goondiwindi’s sculpture trail .