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

Merry Christmas 2021

 Hi everyone , Merry Christmas to you all 

Glenrose Cottage Retreat

 Well what a lovely peaceful place to go on retreat.  The  house is an old home renovated beautifully and  full of patchwork and quilted treasures. The shop is next door and it's a well stocked quilt shop with lots of beautiful things made to inspire you. The gardens are  show quality with lots to see.  If your not happy here I don't think you could be happy anywhere. The entrance welcomes you with a row of  barn quilts on the fence . I have not seen may of these in my travels here in Australia. We did have to provide our own food at this retreat but we were welcomed with a big bowl of fruit and tea coffee etc were provided.  We ordered the evening meal in and took some food for breakfast and lunch. I finished my Christmas attic window quilt I showed last post and also finished a quilt top for a friend who is a Vietnam veteran.  I will post a picture of the finished quilt when I hang it up next week.

The barn quilts 

Beautiful gardens 

The verandah and store entry

The entrance hall

My bedroom

Bathroom there were 3 

The girls 

Sheena's quilt same blocks different looks?

Jo was working on a table runner with a difference 

Preparing for our retreat at Glenrose Cottage Warwick

This weekend coming I am going on retreat to Warwick (about 200km away) to a place called Rose Cottage.  I have cut out this quilt, an attic window with a Christmas panel from Canning Town Patchwork  I have had a rough out with the fabric, at first I had white on the window sill but it was far too bright so I decided on this . You cant really see it but its a pale brown yellow colour. I also wanted to use what was in my stash and I did.  So we'll see if I can get it sewn and quilted this weekend.

It's absolutely pouring rain here right now and its supposed to rain all week so we may not even get there if this keeps up. I hope that is not the case. I feel bad for our farmers trying to get  their first decent harvest in years due to drought, now this. 

'm sorry about the photos,they are really not as true to colour as they should be, I will have to work on that. What ever you are doing take care and have fun...I really miss seeing all my southern friends. We can only pray this co-vid situation will be contained enough one day to let us travel again.

I'm also working on this folder from fabric I received in  a fat quarter challenge. 

the centre 

The cover 

Finally Finished My Favourite Things Quilt

After a few years in the UFO box I have finally finished the "My Favourite Things" quilt from Annie Downs'  "Some Kind of Wonderful"  book. It's amazing how once you get your patchwork mojo back you can get things done. I love this quilt and I don't know why it was on the back burner. The colour isn't as good as it could be sorry. I have used mainly fabrics deigned by Annie. 

The sashing strips are just a combination from my stash. Now just to get it quilted .

Love to travel

                                              Love to go in the caravan
 

            Had a pair of jeans like this when I was in high school

Quilt for a Friend and grandchildren fun

 My workmates and I made a quilt for a friends 40th . She was having an Arabian knights theme party so that's what we made.  We all contributed either by sewing , fabric or money for quilting . It was a nice project to do together. 

Couldn't help sharing the second two photos of me and the grandies having some silly time. Hmm may be  that's why I haven't done much sewing lately.

Serena's 40th quilt

Fun at his 5th Birthday- midnight snacks