Nearly the end of September

Hello, not much sewing done here but I did find a big project I finished a while ago and forgot about.

Eldest son's ride went well, it was lovely having him send the odd live video and a link to follow his route in real time.  Over 700 pounds raised I think.

Unfortunately a bad few weeks for little sister who has been back in hospital, now moved to Brisbane to sort out issues based on complications from the surgery.  It's been tough.

A few more rows have been added to the scarf, this is a good waiting project as I don't really need to concentrate too hard....

My table runner was finished a little while ago, I only just refound my photographs

I totally love it.....

This shows the fairly dense hand quilting I did....

The backing was left over from a previous quilt....

I am continuing with quilting my diamonds quilt when I get a chance.  It's all ruler work - not hard but fairly slow and I have just been finding the odd half hour to do it....

If I'm awake enough in the evenings I have been doing hand stitching for Christmas decorations.....I've always loved backstitch pictures.  I've been using variegated Valdani thread for these.

My pretty indoor orchid is blooming, we have 2 flowers so far and I love the pink blush ....there is 8 buds so I think we'll be enjoying these for a while.

Righto, Gotto Go..... houseworky stuff has not been done lately so there is a lot to catch up on.... we are not perfectionist housekeepers by any means but also don't like a total mess.

2nd week of September.....

We had a lovely warm weekend .... with a win for Widgets footie team at the Grand Final.  It is his last Junior game.... now going into the senior league as he leaves school this year!!!

Grandieboy from UK came for a few days and Monday I walked with him and Hubz round the golf course.....  another gorgeous spring day

A friend came over for a sewing day....she was making Christmas decorations and gave me some bits and a lesson... this is a fun 3D one to make so I might buy some bits and make more.... 

From The Heart is off the quilting frame and into the Binding Queue....

Lots of feathers, swirls and leaves .....

I have had these scrappy stars made for a while, I did make a top before which was given away and now have this one together.....

Didn't make much of a dent in my scraps!!!

I have loaded this quilt onto the frame now .....  I sewed this one in 2018 on my old Singer Treadle....

And the snow-globes are together.....Thanks to Marina for the idea, I had such fun with this one....  its added to the quilting Queue but I think will go up on the list as it would be fun to have it done for Christmas....

My eldest son is taking part in a Fundraising (Cancer Research UK) cycle ride in UK this weekend...

He's riding for his little sister,  and I love the shirt with additional nods to Zimbabwe and Australia ....

London to Brighton 55 miles / 88 kilometres.

The weekend is upon us again, it feels like it was one just the other day....  

Righto, Gotto Go..... I want to iron on some stabiliser onto some stitcheries ....

Have a lovely weekend... whatever you plan to do.....xx

The Start of Spring ...

The Wisteria is glorious..... (the grass is not!) and the scent is lovely and the bees love it too.  

Suddenly very warm here so they won't last long

I've forgotten what this one is called, the pink is in full flower, the white is still in bud

the bees like it too

This week at Tueday stitching I hand sewed down this binding for Bloom, a quilt top I made in 2020.

This picture shows the sashing and border quilting

Custom quilted around the applique and a wiggly background

This quilt is going to Hope Horizons, a cancer wellness centre in Toowoomba

I had my squeeze this week...... we have a free mobile service that comes close by ... so organised - in and out in 10 minutes.

The last of the snow globes have been appliqued.....

These 8 all have the same base.....

My last few evenings has been spent doing some hand quilting of the embroidered table runner.  The picture looks like diagonal lines but it is actually cross hatched 1/2" apart.... sooooo many little stitches but I'm loving it.  Now onto a narrow border.

Today I am going to do some pressure cleaning of the outside area.... and then start putting my snowglobes together ... and some quilting.....

Righto, Gotto Go...... spring to enjoy!

Last bit of August

The last two Christmas stitcheries are done.....

On Sunday I got to my garment making sewing day and April helped me resize a pattern and make up this pair of Cullottes... I used some vintage cotton, now I know it works and fits I will make some in linen and a pair of shorts for summer. 

I have this quilt on the frame.  Its called "From the Heart" and I got the top together in 2022 (not that long ago)

The first 8 snowglobes are together..... I find the applique a lot quicker than the stitcheries....

Close up of one of them.....

My King orchid is really stunning this year... there are 24 spikes on it

The sprays are full of little orchid flowers...

Close up....

Spring is on it's way, the Wisteria is beginning to flower and there is warmth in the days.... just lovely.

Righto, Gotto Go... off to prepare the next snowglobes.

Have a lovely weekend......

Into the last week of August

This week almost got away from me!

I got my Wensleydale quilt top put together.....  a few hours of taking out the papers whilst listening to an audio book.....

I've done some more of the Christmas stitcheries......

... and this week got back to do a bit more hardanger....

... which included filling in the heart with 'dove's eye'

We were invited by friends who had been given tickets to a Footy Game (Dolphins vs Eels) which included great seats and a special pass....

... so we went down on to the field for 15 minutes whilst the home team (Dolphin) warmed up....

Really was a bit of fun ...... and we had a good win .....

The next day we visited a Botanical Gardens.....  This vine in the 'hot house' was flowering....  just huge and such a vibrant blue colour...

the gardens are beautiful and full of lovely areas ....

... and interesting plants....

The Baobab tree was full of pods.  We remembered as children sucking on the pips which are Cream of Tartar....

So many different shapes and sizes of cacti....

We spotted a couple of curlew in this area... they stand completely still and are well camouflaged.... can you spot them????

We also walked up to the Japanese Garden and Bonsai area... there were lots of lovely bonsai but I did like this Azalea in flower.....

and amongst the bushes this lizard basking on a lizard amused me....

After a picnic lunch in the shade we headed off home.....  A lovely time in the city...

Righto, Gotto Go, I want to sort out what I am going to sew - I still have loads of half done things ....

Have a good week ....x