Clamshells

I was playing with clamshells on our small getaway to the The Grampians Halls Gap early this month, finally finished them by making a drawstring bag.

Happy stitching.....

Stitching with Friends

Enjoying our fortnightly stitching day with friends on another cold winters day.

Kaye brought along some of her beautiful cross stitch to show us.

Today we all kept working on our Bucilla Xmas stockings. 

Anna's stocking is coming along beautifully.

As is Dawns beautiful stocking.

My stocking I began working on the tree sections.

Sue has all her red sequence stitched on.

Happy stitching..........

Stitching with Friends and Bucilla Christmas Stockings.

Stitching with Sue, Anna and Dawn today, again kept us warm on another very chilly day. 
We began our journey making Bucilla Xmas stockings with Dawn from  Sewmuchtoquilt  as our teacher. We were so excited to start this new adventure with Dawn at the helm.....hehe. 
Again I forgot to take photos but the ladies just asked me to post mine until next lesson as we will have lots more done.

Also Dawn finished her beautiful jewellery keep.

We missed Kaye today but look forward to her joining us again for our next stitching day and lessons on Bucilla felt kits with Dawn.

Happy stitching........

Round The Garden

Last night I began stitching the houses for the final round in my Round the Garden wall quilt.

Thanks Wendy for hosting another great FNSI.






Happy stitching.............

La Passacaglia

Two large Passacaglia rosettes ready for the final half row, I am still deciding on the colour for the last half row which will connect the rosettes. I think I will wait untill I finish the third large rosette and a couple of the smaller ones.

Happy stitching......

Stitching with Friends

Enjoying another stitching day with Sue, Anna and Kaye kept us warm while we chattered, reviewing books, movies, social media and current affairs. We missed Dawn again, but she sent along some pics of her work.

Anna working on her Red Robin Pouch and Jewellery Keep.

Kaye working on her cross stitch..

I worked on my Passacaglia block..

Dawn couldn't join us today but sent photos of her work on her Red Robin Pouch and Jewellery Keep project .

Happy stitching.........

Double Slice Layer Cake

I spent part of Friday preparing blocks for a double slice layer cake quilt. I watched "you tube " Missouri Star Quilt Company's" Video       http://youtu.be/jxC-0T5lXw4 

for instructions. Such a simple block but very effective I think.

Oh I didn't have the full layer cake as I had used some for another project, but I am happy with this size which make a lovely lap quilt. Best of all I am slowly working my way through some of my stash instead of holding on to it for that special pattern which I never seem to find. Now to add a small border and quilt it. Actually it will match my Tuffet that I made using the same fabrics..yay...

To see what the other ladies got up to for Friday night with friends go here  thank you Chez for hosting another wonderful night.

Happy stitching.......

Red Robin Jewellery Keep

Finished my Red Robin Jewellery Keep by "One Day In May

Happy stitching............

Stitching with Friends

The sun was out for only a short time but the enthusiasm for our stitching kept us busy working on our new project " red robin - pouch and jewellery keep " by Melissa Grant of "One Day  in May". 

Anna busy stitching her block, forgot to take a photo of her gorgeous fabrics and pieced Block.

Kaye has been very busy with work but brought along her new light box to trace out the pattern and start the applique and embroidery.

I did manage to almost finish mine.

We missed Dawn and Sue today as both are a bit under the weather but looking forward to catching up next stitching day.

Happy Stitching........

Phillip Island Patches Weekend

I had a wonderful time at the 

PHILLIP ISLAND PATCHES Mothers Day WEEKEND 

  Held at CYC “The Island” COWES 

 The theme was "Nursery Rhymes"

Andrea and myself dressed up as "The Cat and The Fiddle, The Cow Jumped Over The Moon" 

I chose for my workshop .....

Rudolf and Friends

By Kerry Gillespie

I enjoyed learning a new technique " Fabric Painting " with Kerrie who made it such a fun and relaxed workshop.

My progress for the weekend....

Enjoying Breakfast...

Another workshop in progress and shops at the far end for last minuet purchases.

Thank you to our wonderful Sponsors some of whom are : THE SEWING CONNECTION PAKENHAM & BROTHER Cot Quilt : Cotton onto Craft.

Happy stitching......

Girls Day Out

We (Dawn Sue and myself ) had a lovely day on Thursday first up Patchwork with Gail B was having a sale and I managed to find a few things to add to my basket. Winnie Pooh panel,plus 2 lovely butterfly cot panels, newsprint fabric as a background, plus some lovely brights. While there I bumped into Annie and was lucky enough to have a little chat with Rosalie Dekker who was there for the day.
    Next  Craftpaks in Heathmont another lovely patchwork shop and then lunch at one of the restaurants. Sorry forgot to take any pics, we were having to much fun.

Also we are very excited because our Bucilla projects arrived so we are looking forward to a sewing day with Dawn who will be guiding us through the process of assembling the kit.

Happy stitching......

La Passacaglia

Thanks Cheryll for inviting us to share another Friday with you. You can visit Cheryll's blog here to see what everyone was working on.

I spent the evening preparing and stitching a few more hexagon shapes for my La Passacaglia block.

Happy stitching...................

Rudolf and Friends

It has been very busy here trying to fit two houses into one after selling our beach House. Almost there another couple of weeks, then I hope to be back in full swing with all my projects and blogging.

I thought I had better finish my homework for my Phillip Island (Mothers Day) Patches Weekend project "Rudolf and Friends"
By Kerry Gillespie. Pattern traced ready for all the fun of the workshop.

This is what I hope mine will look like when finished.

Happy stitching......

Round the Garden

Last round lighthouses, cut out the houses and pinned them in place over Easter. I still need to fill in grasses around the circle of flowers but will stitch them in between adding the houses etc. 

Happy stitching......

Show and Tell with Friends.

Sunshine, great friends , yummy food, lots of show and tell , sit and stitching while chatting and having great conversations. Hmmmm .,,,,,Perfect :) Thanks Dawn, Sue, Kaye, &Anne.

Dawns beautiful quilt .,.

Dawns gorgeous Bucilla she brought over to show us. Also Dawn is now going to give us lessons so we can make our own. We are very excited and looking forward to making our own.

Sue working in her hexies.

Dawns new hexie project.

I was working on my round the garden.

Anne was sewing down binding on her quilt and Anne was busy with her little clam shells.

Happy stitching............