A weekend away....

Off to the coast......

Long beach walks....

Exotic meals out....

A little bit of stitching..... 

DD and widget invited us to join their weekend away at a unit in Broadbeach... a city by the beach... easy walking distance to food joints and 5 minutes walk to the beach so just park and relax....

Last Tuesday a friend came over with a new pattern and some wool fabric..... I took out an old blanket and we each made some slippers....

Not the greatest fit and they are not so good for walking around, but lovely and snug while I am just sitting in front of the TV...

Righto, Gotto Go... there is always a large pile of washing after a weekend away!!!!

Still not sure if comments is sorted or not - apologies if I am not answering as it means they aren't coming through on email.... trying something else .... sigh

and now it's July.....

I seem to have lost getting emails of my comments... so please accept my apologies if I haven't answered recentlyh.  I have tried a couple of things but it doesn't seem to have worked so I will tick the box after I have posted this until things sort out...  I know a few people have had difficulty recently.... all is not lost just have to adapt...

Half way through the year already....

Machine sewing saw me put these blocks together for Wish You Well BOM

This is May's block....

(which I realised I had missed a little circle after I photographed but its added now)

and this is June's block

(Karen I used lace from the lovely gift you sent me in both of these blocks... thank you)

Here are the two blocks together (with the little heart circle added)

... and progress to date....

Since I only started this project in April I am glad to have got myself up to date... just in time for this months block which is printed and ready for tracing the embroideries....

I also machine sewed on the borders for my Love Quilt so that I could needleturn the little corners on.... 

... and they are all ready... next round is a wider border with 1/2" hexagon flowers!!!

There is no pressure on this project but I am enjoying slowly doing each part to it.....

Building has started next door so there are machines all day.... the clouds have come over which means it is not as cold, I need some groceries so I have to make a trip out... and I am looking forward to a weekend with Hubz, daughter and widget

I hope you have a lovely rest of the week.....

WOOFA and other things......

Cheryll hosts WOOFA to motivate working on projects....

my list of UFO's is certainly getting less, (not to say I haven't started things so that I can have a decent list next year!!!)

This month the main WOOFA project was my pineapple quilt.... this is all finished now

.. the other one I worked on was putting the blocks together for this quilt.... but it won't be quilted for a while I think....

Did you know Facebook now has a 'Rooms' function?  I learnt of it when a room was sorted to celebrate MIL's 90th birthday.... so a few of us had a go this week.... and it works very well....

Sue in Victoria, (hope you don't mind me stealing your picture) Maria from WA and Michelle and I in Queensland....

took a bit of getting used to as we all want to talk at the same time (wierd hey?)

I did a few more borders on my crochet blocks while we chatted.....

 My most favourite LQS closed it's bricks and mortar store this week.  Thank goodness it will still operate but in different ways and we can still keep in contact.  Of course with changes there is sales.... I did limit what I got but I popped in yesterday for my last visit at that spot and got hold of this piece of fabric....

I have absolutely no idea what to do with it... but look... glow in the dark!!!  If nothing else it will make me smile!

This week I worked on my needleturn centre for a quilt.....

I need to add on some borders and then there is some more needleturn to go in the corners...

So pretty.... Pattern book is "Blue" by Natalie Bird and I am using Tilda fabrics.....

Righto, weekend is here, the floors have been mopped and I can go and play with my quilting machine... after my cuppa that is!

Have a lovely weekend.....

Busy, busy .....

Sunday Stitchers UFO challenge number was #11 and that is now completed...

A boro piece I had stitched up some time ago to make into a snappy purse....

no pattern... and it shows... I have no idea what I was supposed to do with that snappy thing but it certainly doesn't look right...

My purse is ugly... but it works and now it holds my rotary cutters....  I will one day learn how to properly include those snap frames....

A lovely surprise in the post for me this week.... Karen saw I was using old lace in my Wish You Well BOM and has sent me some pieces to choose from.....  there are some lovely different ones there and I'm looking forward to playing with them... thanks so much Karen....xxx

Isn't it so fun when something unexpected arrives?

I gave myself a morning of my own machine sewing this week and did some more blocks of Jane's sampler sewalong....

different variations of a 9 patch....

sometimes just the arrangement of colours...

and other times an unusual manipulation of the blocks giving a 3D look...

the blocks are 14"....

now I have all 12 blocks done..... Jane has a lovely setting on point but I think I will just add sashing and a border which will keep the size down a bit....

Another sweet stitchery for Wish You Well - that ribbon filling in took me a few evenings!!

Righto, Gotto Go.... need to chuck a log on the fire and go check on that chicken I have in the oven....

Have a lovely rest of the week....

Hand- stitching.....

I haven't really done any machine stitching of my own this week.... been happily quilting though ....

In the meantime I am still doing some hand stitching ....

this sunflower is done for Field Journal ,,,,,,

... and all the May stitcheries for Wish You Well are done....

..and I am slowly working through my crochet blocks adding dark borders....

(these are not true colours at all... that is a dark mustard with navy blue)

I was gifted this gorgeous new mug this week.....

Righto, Gotto Go.....  the sun is shining, the lawn is being mown, there is coffee to be had in a pretty new mug!

Scrap Happy

My scrappy pineapple quilt is all done.....

I used up almost all of my purple, pink and teal scraps.  The white is some plain sheeting I had in my stash....

I purchased a special ruler which helped a lot with trimming to keep the shape...

Mostly in the ditch quilting so as not to detract from the piecing....  I even had some pink binding in my 'scrap binding' box.....

I had to do a bit of piecing for the backing.. that was also made from leftovers from a previous quilt...

Now I'm keen to get into my red and cream scraps for another one.....

I finished off my Bondi top... they don't take too long at all really ....

.. there is a small pleat at the back which helps with the fit... I was pleased with myself for getting it meeting so well!!!

The weather has cooled and my new tops are not being worn... this one fits much better round the neck so I have made pattern adjustments to do some more later

Another embroidery for Wish You Well is done... lovely sayings in each block...

We do need more kindness in our world I think... I try... but I admit I do struggle sometimes...  

I hope you have a lovely day and that someone is kind to you .....