FNWF....

Thanks Chez for hosting FNWF... and welcome back from your holiday.....  

I was lucky enough to double date with the Friday night girls at The Quilters Angel...

… where snacks were provided!

I have 8 blocks the same to do for a quilt (Les Courtiers) .... long term project which is taking longer than planned due to procrastination and poor attention!

Today I have prepped up another 4 blocks for Bloom.....

This is the 12 I have prepped up together... they will have sashings…. eventually!

 The shop is open when we are there on Friday night and I noticed some blue/green batik fabric.  I like to choose in natural light so I went back today with my blocks

This will be my sashing and corner triangles for my sisters blocks.

I am probably breaking all the rules having a combination of ethnic themed African prints, soft Tilda fabric (backgrounds) and batik fabric... and a bit of plain homespun for the faces and hands.

But I like the combination and different visual textures they give...

After popping in to get my fabric we went off to a hardware store and bought a bunch of timber stuff.... (see my hints about the shadehouse/fernery worked!!)

 

Whilst Hubby was working out where what was to go, a magpie who has befriended him came along and sung to him...  this one often comes to wherever he is working hoping he will dig up some yummy worms....

This is the area he is working on today.... I'll take a picture again later.... magpie has jumped up on the wall - he didn't seem to like the noise of the drill!!

Righto, Gotto Go...….. I think I am needed to hold the wood out there!

Hope you have a lovely weekend…...

OPAM and a park, and some progress

My finishes for September include....

… this zippy pouch....

this embroidered thread holder....

.. and two little penguin vests....

Here are some pictures from a walk in one of the parks recently....

It was so windy yesterday I'm sure a lot of the blossoms have been blown away!!

I am trying to spend a bit of time in the sewing room each day playing with my projects

This week I have been preparing some blocks for my Bloom quilt thanks to Maria for twisting my arm with this one!  I love it and am using a layer cake for the flowers

… and evening sewing has focussed on needleturn this week and another block added to my Wings quilt designed by Michelle..... 

Lots of photo's today..... 

I hope you are all having a lovely week.... and managing to spend some time doing what you love and being with people you love....

xx

Out and About.....

The big garden competition is on during carnival time and Hubz and I went to walk around the Grand Champion...

The roadside was stunning ….

Inside was an explosion of colour….. 

Lots of lovely plants ….. 

These roses were huge.... like the size of a hand huge!

I loved this idea for a border using concrete bricks and filling them with succulents.... 

I am hoping Hubz might take up this idea....

.. and I just looooved this art piece outside the front door..... 

I was also hoping Hubz might take up this idea... (I got a weird look from him at the suggestion!)

WE also went to a winning Rural Garden.... again lots of colour (outside the garden area is just brown dirt - they have bore water and have struggled more this year of course)

A lot of building up to get height and walkways....

We spotted this King parrot just watching the goings on... there was lots of lovely bird sounds in this garden...

We spent ages in this shadehouse/fernery.... we want lots of green in ours one day!! 

Lots of ideas for Hubz to take up!!  Haha... the to do list is growing!! 

During the week I was lucky enough to catch up with Marilyn (Mardi Meanderings blog) who has moved to Toowoomba now.  We did the quilt shows and embroidery show and maybe had a couple of cups of tea and slices also.... so fun 

The embroidery show was just amazing and we spent a few hours there... no photo's allowed but a huge range of embroidery types and incredible 3D work and pulled thread and cross stitch.... really a highlight of the week.  They only put it on every 2 years.

There were 2 main quilt shows, to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed, but it is always great to see them and I very much appreciate the work that goes into getting them together.

I have carried on with hand sewing in the evenings and happy to say I have now done all the hand stitching for my postcards quilt..... just need to cut more fabric and make up more blocks

Another project is already prepared for stitching ….. but first I will work on Wings

A pretty little recent purchase is this needle-minder…. it's a good size and has a pin on the back.

Great for those times when sewing and putting down the needle.... I so often 'forget' where I put mine!

Righto, Gotto Go....  off to prepare a block from Wings to do some needleturn this evening....

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the gardens