Baradine retreat 2022

 Well what a great weekend. Lots of lovely ladies, some bloggers and great catering for us by Ronnie , Janine and Nea. Thanks ladies. My friend Gail came along with me and  that was great as it is a 4.5 hour drive to get there. Some ladies came from other states , what a drive they had - a day or two. We spent our time sewing , talking and sharing ideas, jokes and stories. Baradine is just a very small, small  country town and I hope we bought some support to their little town with our retreat.I love the people there such genuine people and some real characters.

Before going on retreat these two placed the squares on the design wall.. I think they did pretty well.

Step One -sew the squares

Step 2 cut them up and sew it again with a slight twist... this is what you get 

My friend Gail working on her beautiful embroidered quilt

Janis, Brenda and Sue with projects from last year

Close up of Gail's quilt

Annette's Forrest friends quilt

Red night 

Chooky making sure its all just right

Jo and Donna

                                      The following are show and tell quilts for the weekend 

Di

Jo

Jenny's

Mary

Janis

Janis

Janis

Julie

Harriet

A few more of ladies in red

Peta

Brenda 

Brenda

Jules

Jules

Harriet 

Tina with her pineapples  ... beautiful and fun

i think this is Donna's

Jo's mini twister

This was our project - large medium and small just a lucky dip

Easter Prep and Crazy Hair Day

 Today I spent some time doing some preparation for Easter. I will have a house full of  family and so looking forward to it. Shortbread cookies, cup cakes and choc chip cookies. Their favourites.

Now for the icing. 

These two had crazy hair day and yes it's her own hair. He says he's a pineapple and she's a pumpkin. Ha Ha LOL. 

Double Quilt Finish

It's such a nice feeling when a flimsy finally turns into a full blown finished quilt. I have finished binding two this week. Why did it take so long? The first one is one I made at Cottage on the Hill a few years ago now and the second one is an even older finish. But they are done now. Both simple but effective. Not the colours in my house decor but colours I love none the less. Gifts may be ??

 

Just in time for Easter

 The final pieces are sewn in 

The bind is on thank you Lynette Anderson for designing the pattern .

Voila! all done set for Easter what's you favourite Easter treat, mine would have to be the Ferrero Rocher Egg ?

Finished

 My sewing room is finally had its final edition a sewing and cutting table from Horn. It arrived last night and my darling hubby put it together right away. Its height adjustable for cutting and sewing, The top flips if I need more space and it has a recess to make a flat top for quilting and its on casters for easy moving. So happy with it .

I am working on finishing this little table centre for Easter.. I have had it as a UFO for a long time . It's from Lynette  Anderson Designs

Buffalo quilt and my garden

 Today was one of those days when I did everything and nothing. In my garden I found these gems. Of all the vegetables I've tried to grow these and herbs seem to be most successful, baby egg plants or aubergines. Worst is they are not even my favourite but they just grow on neglect.

I took a walk in the garden and found these regular little black ants , almost like house ants had raised their nest. I've seen lots of other ants raise their nest but not these. I also noticed the meat ant's nest was closed over so that means lots of rain and yes its raining right now. We need it but some are still harvesting sorghum and don't quite want it yet but they will have no choice as mother nature makes up her own mind.

When my husband traveled to Oklahoma several years ago he bought some quilt panels home for me. I have finally finished this quilt at long last. I love it. 

I really Love the detail in this panel, especially in all the grass at the bottom.

This is where he bought it from The Prairie Quilt shop in Hennessy, Oklahoma. He said the line up the day he went was just like in this photo. But he lined up for me . He's the best. He actually went to 3 quilt shops while he was in the USA and I have talked about in in a past blog.  Apparently this place is pretty famous. 

New knee

 Thanks for the blog comments ladies I still can’t get my blog to email to me so I can see a chat with Chookyblue coming up. I have completed a few more filler locks and that’s the Lucy Boston progress so far. I’ve had a knee replacement and have been in hospital and rehab just short of 2 weeks. Home tomorrw.

Waiting Time

 I have been spending g time getting some hand stitching don’t while Hubby worked in Brisbane this week. Lucy Boston has been receiving my attention . This is the first step to putting her together.

Thanks for the comments and a bind

 Thanks Reawyn , Jeanette and dq for your comments. I don't know why I'm not getting them on my email sorry.  Today I spent time sewing a bind onto a quilt I have had done for a while, ready for some hand sewing after my knee operation Monday.

Finished

 

 My new happy place is finished. I am so lucky and so thankful. The sliding cupboard doors arrived yesterday. It all looks so  neat now. I just have to tidy up after each sewing stint. 

This morning I woke early and spent time in my happy place to make these little cutlery holders. I  hate those wooden spoons they give you  with takeaway food . They are so raspy on your tongue. No plastic anymore. So I carry my own . I made some cases from the plastic coated fabric you can get these days. I'ts washable and light weight. I made some for friends as well.

Today we had a wild wind and dust storm and I was hemmed in by flyaway and umbrella grass, never before have I had it that I had to wade through it to get out the door. Nothing was damaged but the whole  yard is a mess with it. Tomorrow I need to clean up the entire fence line.  Grrr. 

This stretched back a couple of metres but you cant see that so well 

And after this amazing rainbow with a difference 

 

My New Happy Place.

 For the past few months I and the builder  have been working on making my custom sewing room .Everything has been packed away but now its ready to go. I am so super lucky to have this and I am so super happy I no longer have piles of plastic tubs, I now have drawers , I no longer have machines and things on the floor, I now have them in the cupboard and I no longer have carpet to trap the pins. I am just waiting on my sliding doors for the big built in . So ready to get sewing but a knee replacement surgery on the 31st Jan might slow me down a bit. But I will get in there. 

Walk in here 

Yep my own TV and design wall . I can move the cutting table when i need to its on wheels