Bird on the Border - My blog shares my experiences with patchwork, stitching, family ,friends and caravanning
Practise, Practice that is what I have to do on my long arm. I found this flimsy in the cupboard and thought it would be a good practice project. Don’t know how old it is. I think way back in my learning years it should have been blocks . Ha ha!! Useful fir practise. As you will see, still a very long long way to go.
Wow I’m glad the challenge is to work on a project . No way I’ll be done this month but I have started. It’s quite hard to design a quilt I think. I was not feeling very creative either. But I have it now. I bought this fabric, I thought ,not that long ago, however, I’m glad it hasn’t deteriorated with time. It was our 25th wedding anniversary trip and now we are past 40. Whoops!! Lucky I put this project in the challenge.
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| The planning |
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| The Fabric |
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| Yep I had to search for this one |
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| There is a range but not a lot of each so I will add some plain or contrasting |
It was very special to be invited to stay over at Susan Oh to Sew's house to join one of her stitching groups for the morning. While I was there Susan showed me how to make a kiwi bird block with foundation piecing. It was the first time I have ever done that technique. Thank you Susan.
This was totally the best timing since the Chookshed Stitchers Challenge is to work on my New Zealand Quilt. I have no idea what I am doing but this little bird will be in it.I visited New Zealand and bought some fabric there to make into a quilt. So now is the time.
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| In the process. The colour isn't true though, it was a lovely green background. |
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| Mine is on the left and Susan's on the right, mine has no legs yet. |
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| NEW ZEALAND QUILT |
Every year on the May Day long weekend we go camping with family and friends to Kenilworth Homestead grounds. We circle the wagons and it all happens . Swimming, campfire cooking , games and a few beers of course. The kids even made some film . Follow the link if you want to see it. Subscribe if you like it. It’s my sons you tube Channel. A funny wrestling video will follow soon.
https://youtu.be/kmQegORnr6o?si=1yN_4kdG5W4G1JWf (Cob loaf instructions ) and it was good.
Totally written made and produced by the kids.
This year we even had a world champion wrestling competition and a cooking presentation. The kids of course. No children or adults were harmed in these presentations. The boys just loved it.
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| The wrestlers |
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| The adult getting crushed |
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| The audience- both sides |
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| Kenilworth is known for its doughnuts.. people line up for ages to get one..yes they are good . Custard, Nutella, Kinder, lemon curd …yum |
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| Our camp |
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| The boys planning the wrestling match |
Finally I got to see where my brother and his wife live in Noosa. He’s been there for 2 years and this is my first visit . It was very wet but we went to ‘Sum Yung Guys’ for lunch so if you ever get a chance go for a meal …delicious. They totally spoilt us with a seafood lunch at home on day one. We went on a pontoon boat on the river and had a few drinks of course. So good to catch up .
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| My younger brother |
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| The other half |
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| Bug and prawn salad |
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| The locals. |
