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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Back from Bali.....

I have had a lovely 10 days away in Bali.....

Admired the temple carvings....

played at beaches....

.... drank coctails.....

watched sunsets...

...that could be my bag of bali fabrics?....

... ate the local foods....

drove over the water....

...visited the World Heritage paddy fields....

... went to cooking class....

... loved the sculptured art....

visited busy markets...

... had sunset dinners....

...went up the mountains....

... and best of all spent time with these loves....

... and more, but I know what they say about other people's holiday pics????....

Righto, Gotto Go..... bali fabric to wash, blogs to read, stitching to do!!

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Monday's Design Board...

Last week I finished off this little project....

It's a journal cover using Bloom's free tutorial HERE on her blog

... the inside is lined with sweet sewing related fabric too...

This weeks Design Board consists of a mix of hand and machine sewing ...

I have some sampler blocks which I am going to partly hand piece on the very small tight curves

... and some Tea Time Teddies stitcheries which I will take with me on holiday ....

Thanks Cath at Bits 'n Bobs for hosting Design Board Monday.... the link is HERE if you'd like to join in too

I've started putting things together for packing for the holiday.... this may give you a hint...

... bathers and turkish towel /sarong .....

Righto, Gotto Go.... there's a passport involved too so I must get all the things sorted .....

Sunday, February 7, 2016

FNWF... and a bloggy friends meet up

Thank you dear Cheryll for this months FNWF sewing.....

I spent it with the stitching group of ladies at The Quilters Angel and worked on some hand stitching for a friendship block - part of the sampler quilt I am doing

Sampler block sewing this week has been on my own.... the others have gone off to Tassie for holidays leaving me behind!!! but that's ok as I am off on my own holiday later this week...

Gentleman's Fancy (25 pieces)

Glorified 9 patch (13 pieces)

Follow the Leader (29 pieces)

Last year I took part in a monthly series of Free Motion Quilting hosted by Darlene at QuiltShopGal (do you remember all the cushions I made)

I was so lucky to win a gift voucher from Gotcha Covered Quilting. When I went online I was concerned that the postage was going to be the cost of mailing whatever I bought and the Aus$ is pretty week at the moment so I wrote and said thanks so much but I wouldn't be able to use it.

Carrie from Gotcha Covered quickly got back to me and said she would try and put something together that would be less costly to mail.....

What a lovely surprise when this parcel arrived in the post.... there is a metre of the plain grey and she added two half metres of the others that match.... how amazing.. Thank you so much Carrie and also to Darlene who had heaps of work putting together the tutorials and prizes the whole year..

They are gorgeous high quality fabrics and I'm dreaming up what I might make with them

these lovely bulbs have started floweing in a number of our pot plants we inherited here.... they are crocus plants (thanks to instagrammers for letting me know!). So pretty and delicate and I have been promised some pink ones too!

Here is what they look like in the pot with another plant... lovely and they have flowered and flowered for ages

Saturday brought along a road trip.... Hubz dropped me off for lunch and he went and did a few chores in a shopping centre....

I met up with Michelle and Raewyn who is visiting all the way from New Zealand....

Raewyn brought along her gorgeous Calender Bears quilt (Michelles's design) for us to admire... of course I got some quilting ideas from her too!!

It was a lovely few hours that sped along far too fast for my liking ......

(thanks Michelle I stole the pics from you as mine all came out too dark! xx)

Righto, Gotto Go.... the grass needs to be mowed before we go on our holiday.... but I'll chat before that ....xx

Monday, February 1, 2016

Sampler Blocks and Design Board plans.....

A couple of weeks ago we got together to make a few more sampler blocks

Duck and Ducklings - 21 pieces

Fools Puzzle - 36 pieces

Dutchman's Puzzle - 24 pieces

We are up to 95 blocks now - made up from 3072 pieces.....

I have a list of blocks to do for homework in February so those are first up on my Design Board Monday....

So far I haven't even chosen the fabrics for each block but there's 29 days to do that!!

I have covered my block box ...

the covered base can be used for a top for my taller box

.. and I finished up my mini wall of art....

some lovely pieces from different people

.. and the little stand gets changed from time to time with other pieces I have received from friends.

so lovely to look at them all and be inspired

I sewed the tuffet cover.. but I'm not showing it all to you as it's a surprise .... the tuffet will be made by my DIL who is doing an upholstery course