Here I am back again, I have had a few glitches like misplacing my camera battery charger lead so no pics for a while....:(   I've sorted that now.....:)
I have been working on a Christmas gift that I couldn't show you anyway ...big surprise for a member of my sewing group which they have received now and loved......:)  but I have no pics because of the first glitch...:(

hopefully I will have some photos soon.... I will leave you with a picture of some flowers  from my garden from last Summer and a Christmas pic from last year......

Sewing in Merimbula - Part 2.

Just a few more pics from my wonderful week away......

these are the star blocks for my "Back Home Again" quilt which Chris (SIL) and I bought together at the Quilt Convention in Melbourne last year.... we couldn't resist the sweet little suitcase it came in and the fabric and the design are gorgeous as well......

this was a little sewing bag I finished while I was away..... nice to finish something that had been on my list for a while.......

I keep my Dresden Plate project in it, it's a nice cart-around size bag.....

And I finally finished my block roll, another project that has been on my list for a while....

Chris spent most of the week working on this beautiful applique block that will be in  her "Life is a Celebration" quilt, which I had a peek at the rest of the blocks she has finished and it will be a gorgeous quilt...

 here is Melissa (light top) and Chris (dark top) contemplating what they are going to sew next......

and this was the view from our apartments.....

not that we spent much time looking out the windows of course......

Happy stitching everyone......

Sewing in Merimbula - Part 1.

 Back in July my three stitching friends and I stayed in Merimbula for a week of sewing,

 it was heaven a whole week of just sewing, we all achieved quite a bit.....

Sharon finished this beautiful wool covered box .... Melissa and I started ours.......

Her work is so perfect...

 

this was a raw edge applique block Sharon started......

Sharon also started cutting out the hundreds of pieces for her latest project.....

from the most gorgeous fabrics....

to make this design..... which will be stunning....

UPDATE..... she has cut all the pieces of fabric and is started to tack them onto the papers......

she is such a show-off........lol....

Melissa finished this sweet little Christmas basket.... 

again perfect stitching....

 

Melissa did a few hours on her current cross-stitch... The Marriage Of the Minds.....which is beautiful...

a wool glasses case and a cute cross-stitch needle-case she whipped up......

she is a quiet achiever....

part 2 soon......

Another catch-up

Yes it's been a while, life really does get faster as you get older, there just doesn't seem to be as many hours in the day as last year of course it could just be me....

 Now I can show you a glimse of the quilt I FINISHED back in May on my UFO weekend away....sorry about the dodgy picture...

This was a big surprise for Kate..... she didn't think I'd ever get it finished especially when she wasn't home to remind me about it... she moved to the sunshine coast back in April and loved it but found it hard to find work up there so in July I flew up and stayed a couple of days and then we drove back home to Victoria together which was fun.....

I had planned to show you some more photos of Hobart but I can't find them on my computer...I'm thinking I need a new one this one has been giving me quite a bit of grief lately ....another reason for my blog absence...

Happy stitching , Sheryl

Birthday fat 1/4s

These are some gorgeous gifts of fat quarters and other lovely pressies I received for my birthday back in June from the ladies in the birthday fat 1/4 group....

Thank-you girls I am very happy with your fabric choices and I can't

 wait to get started with them....

Catching up....

Gee I just read over my last couple of posts and realised I have to catch up with my photos..... so here is some pics of my ufo weekend I went on at the end of May with my no-blog stitching friends, Sharon and Helen......

This was a scrappy floral quilt Helen stitched the borders on ..... the photo doesn't do it justice it was very pretty with lovely soft colours....

Here's Helen hard at it quilting her "Monet's garden" quilt, which was her own design named after the range of fabric she used, she stitched  flowers in redwork onto plain blocks with the beautiful floral fabrics bordering around each stitchery, it looked gorgeous.....

she even had matching gloves.....

This was a beautiful cross-stitch Sharon was working on... she had to add tiny beads to it ......

which as you can see caused her a bit of stress, yep she had to keep stepping out for a cigarette.....

Here are a few things that she did finish......... a cute little lunch bag on the right, it looked perfect in the fabric she chose and the little mushroom charm was a sweet touch.......

an absolutely gorgeous little red  bag...

and block 1 of a Sue Spargo BOM that she has joined, most of this is wool applique..... simply gorgeous....

This was an applique block Helen set up ... ready to stitch...

and lastly Sharon started this lovely cross-stitch, you can just see the design on the left....

I finished a couple of things which I am very happy about and I will post some pics of them soon.....

Birthday surprise.

Last week I had my birthday... DH asked me where I'd like to go for the weekend, after considering visiting DD1 Victoria in  Queenstown NZ.... no! too far for a weekend or maybe Sunshine coast to catch up with DD 2 Kate no! not long enough in the warmer weather.... I decided it was time we went over to Hobart ... we had been to Cradle Mt about 11 years ago and have always promised ourselves another trip to Tassie.... so we flew over Friday morning and we stayed here...

The Henry Jones Art Hotel

This would have to be one of the most interesting hotels we have ever stayed in, it was built in the old IXL jam factory which they preserved as much as possible.....

keeping the original beams and stone walls.....

Then on most of the walls and in every room there was artwork of every type; some that inspired and some that didn't but all very interesting....

this is a large painting of one of those little plastic pigs from a toy farm set... different....

I will show some more pics of beautiful Hobart  and some sewing soon...

happy stitching everyone.