happy holidays

Well there is only 3 sleeps to go until we fly to Queenstown NZ to visit our daughter and oh boy am I excited.... we have a night in Christchurch on the way there and on the way home again..... we will be with Victoria for 6 nights she is going to stay with us in our apartment which will be lots of fun..... it's her birthday while we are there.... I have packed some stitching to do and I will be taking lots of photos..... so up, up and away.... talk to you soon.

At last a Finish!

Break out the bubbly I have finished something that I have had in the cupboard for too many years....
that will explain why it has such old and dated fabrics in it... it is from "American Patchwork & Quilting" magazine Issue 10 October 1994

but I don't care... it's finished,

now I can cross it off my ufo list and I can start something new... hmmm what will I work on now....
I was reading on someone's blog the other day about how they were working on bits and pieces for Christmas so they could avoid the last minute dash... sounds like a good idea.... but first I'd like a day or two to enjoy that lovely feeling of a finish...lol.... better hop over to Kris' to let her know I have a finish for Aug

My Spring Garden

After reading about the beautiful Wattles on Chooky Blues blog I was quite envious and then I went out to the shed and look what I found.....

Yes! it is the unloved part of our yard but doesn't it look so pretty with these sneaky little wattles....

they are growing from under the fence from next door even though their Wattle died last year.... Mother Nature is so clever.....

these daffodils are saying look Spring is here...yahoo...

can you smell my Jonquils... they are so sweet.....

the Apricot tree looks a picture...

next time I will have something finished to show you....

This is what I bought at the boatshed quilt shop.....
a gorgeous bag from Melly and Me, it was on display in the shop and because I am a bit of a bag lady I had to have it. Mum bought some fabrics to finish off a quilt she is working on.. no pics...sorry.
then we drove over to Paynesville on the Gippsland Lakes... it was such a perfect day..

and we visited "Gone Quilting"

there I found a couple of books to inspire...I managed not to buy any fabric, mind you it was hard, they have a lovely range.....
the "Big Quilts, Big Blocks" is a book using layer cakes, which will be helpful as I have a couple in the cupboard; the other book is the first Material Obsession book and I have ordered a copy of the second book after seeing it on
"Aunties Quaint Quilts"


Then we went into Bairnsdale and had a salad sandwich and coffee and went to the patchwork shop there here I did buy some fabric to make a peg bag...

Little bit by little bit..... I am getting there with this table runner, those squares are actually 1/2" something I didn't realise when I started.....just more fiddly bits.....

Here is another "Truly Scrumptious" girl... just getting going with this one, it is a good one to cart around.....

What is that they say about curiosity killed the cat...guess who is the fat cat..lol
thought I would have a fiddle with my blog and look what I have done made a lovely mess.... lucky I have all day to fiddle... not! I want to go and sew instead of fiddling with stuff I don't really know much about...
hopefully next time you pop in the mess will have been cleaned up by my fairy god-mother or me....

Last week Mum and I hopped in the car and drove down the road a bit to Lakes Entrance, a lovely little fishing town, first stop was a cuppa at the tea-rooms next to a florist/giftshop.... they have lovely bits and pieces I managed to restrain myself from buying anything after-all we were on our way to the patchwork shop
Ta Da!!!! The Boatshed

this is a fabulous quilt shop Robyn and Lyn always greet you with a smile and they have lots of great kits and fabrics and patterns, lots and lots to see.... I was too busy looking and shopping to take any photos inside, maybe next time....
Now my freshly brewed coffee is waiting for me to go upstairs sewing so I will show you some more pics of our little drive next time....

old ufo

A couple of weeks ago I decided to start something off my ufo list..... one of my older projects....
can you beleive how old this is... the date on the magazine is 1994.... look at those darling old fabrics and colours....


lucky I still like the fabrics although I'm not sure how they will work in my house now but I will stitch it together and see....

My most humble apologies to you all in blogland.... I have no real excuse for my weeks of no blogging except to say I lost not only my sewing mojo but worst of all my blogging mojo went with it..... to where I have no idea.
My thoughts are that they both disappeared into the land of unpicking.... you know that place where the light is so dim and suddenly you need triple magnifyers and some Las Vegas lighting to see those naughty little...no tiny-tinsey... stitches that were so carefully sewn that now have to come out because they are in the wrong spot...doh!!!!
and of course because I was so overwhelmed with the grief and pain of all this I had nothing to blog about... I should have just blogged for some helpful advice from those of you who have been here before.....

As well as all that June was a very busy month for me.... We had a night away on the boat over the long weekend and caught up with some old friends which was fun.....
Then it was my big "O" birthday and we went up to the snow at Dinner Plain for a weekend with my darling husband and our children, it was really lovely, very relaxing, took my sewing but it didn't get a look in... too much to see and do.....
Here's a photo of my snowboarding daughters
my son and his girl.... and no we didn't need the ambulance we just parked near it..lol

Beautiful Mt Hotham.... the pink jacket and the yellow jacket behind(centre of pic) are my girls boarding down the mountain....

We had a BBQ lunch on the following Sunday with my Mum and sister and her children, son and his girlfriend and her two boys to celebrate my birthday and Daniel's and farewell Victoria... she is off to NZ again :(


On the Monday went to Melbourne with my girls and we went to the Barbie exhibition, that was fun seeing all the Barbies and we got to dress one each...

We stayed overnight and ate at a lovely Japanese restaurant on Southbank then we drove Victoria to the airport 7am Tuesday morning, she is over there in Queenstown working for the next twelve months...I hope it won't be that long but it will be fun to go and visit her over there, we went over last time she and Kate were there in 2005 and loved it,I can't wait to go back this time I will find the patchwork shops.....