Sunday, January 25, 2015

I am going away tomorrow ..

I am heading to my son's tomorrow .. Sunday ... which is really today .. but later ..

My plane leaves Brisbane around 3 tomorrow afternoon but I will be catching a bus into the airport from here ... so much easier than hubby driving all the way there and back ... and I will have an hour or so to do a little hand sewing ..

I have all but finished my Initial Heart Swap gift .. just a little hand sewing to go .. then it will be in the mail .. I am sorry but I really can't show you what I have made ... cos my partner may or may not be trolling here ... gee I don't even know if my swap partner knows who I am .. this is a most fun swap ...

but .. when she has it in her hot little hands ... then all shall be revealed .. I am soooo impressed with my embroidery work ... I really am getting better at this ...


I am not sure if I will be online very much while I am away .. maybe I will be just too busy galavanting all over the country side .. or just playing with my precious little great grandie Harrison ... and the other children of course ...

well I have to get some sleep so I will say bye for now ... catch up with you all soon ... and if you don't hear from me before hand ... Have a very safe and Happy Australia Day ... I do believe we will be spending some of the day at the beach ...

Have a great one folks ...

Monday, January 19, 2015

Coasters ...

I was browsing through some blogs this evening when I wandered into The Fabric Mill ... and found this tutorial for these coasters .. now I had seen them before and just never got to the point where I thought ... hmmm ... I am going to make them ... well that was until tonight ... 

While looking at the tutorial it hit me .. these would make an excellent birthday gift for my DIL ... her birthday is next month so that works out perfect ... and I did have some Kaffe Fassett charm squares in the cupboard .. somewhere ... which would be perfect ... so ... I dragged them out ... cut a bit of wadding up to size ... folded the charms and pinned them into place .. ran around them with the machine .. turned them out and wow ... I love them ... perfect for drink glasses and wine glasses ... yep .. perfect ... 



And the very best thing with them is .. they took less than an hour to make ... yep .. all 8 of them in less than an hour .. 



Which has left me plenty of time to do some more work on this little heart project ... which is coming along nicely too .... 


It is now 3 in the morning and I really need to get to bed ... have a lovely Monday everyone



Friday, January 16, 2015

Finished .. Yay!!

These are the things I finished and posted to my DD for her birthday ... first birthday for the year .. let's see if I manage to remember all of them .. it is a task to do so but I really am going to try .. 


This is the cushion finished ... I think it turned out rather nice ... 


and a quick little mug rug .. 
the butterflies are done 3 dimensional and are very cute



Well that is all I have finished so far .... I do have a couple of other things on the table but are not finished and even if they were I could not show you cos they are for my 'Initial Heart' swap partner ... 

I am also busy organising stuff here for my little holiday down south ... the only problem is I still do not have my travel booked ... I am waiting on a certain someone to let me know exactly when it is I am going ... oh well, the suspense is sort of adding another layer to the excitement ... lol ... I do know this much ... I will be going one day next week ... 

Have a great weekend everyone ... I will be sitting in the air conditioning .. sewing .... and just enjoying myself .. 

What are your plans ??



Tuesday, January 13, 2015

At last .. I get to meet Harrison ...

I am going to visit with my son and his family in New South Wales .. and ... I am going to finally meet our precious little Harrison ... I am so very excited about getting to see him and the rest of my precious family ... Son .. DIL .. 3 grandsons .. 1 grand princess .. grandson's partner and little Harrison ... oh and #2 grandsons girlfriend .. apparently they are very serious ... they are both 16 and we know how serious those relationships can be .. haha ...

I have so much to do before I leave .. which is always the way isn't it? .. ahhh!!.. what to take .. what to leave ... well I will be taking stuff for me ... and I am leaving hubby and the dog behind ...... but will fix some meals for him so he doesn't starve ...

I will be catching a bus from here to Brisbane and then a plane to Newcastle ... works out cheaper than a bus all the way ... I would go by train as I really love the trains but there is no connecting trains from here on the same day .. which means I would have to stay overnight and there goes my cheap travel ... so ... I hope to leave here on the 20th .. which is 8 days away .. but I have heaps to do in those 8 days ...

I will only be taking a little hand sewing with me and I am not sure if I will get to do any of that ... the children are still on school holidays and my DIL goes back to work on the 27th ... that is also when the kiddies go back to school ... so after that I may have a little time to sit and stitch ...

I have a couple of things to finish making before I go ... so that will be a job for the next couple of days ... should have the daughters cushion finished tomorrow ... and then I will start on my 'Initial Heart' swap .. it is all ready to start .. getting the idea was the tricky bit ... but that is all worked out ...

But right now I am heading to bed ... it is 3:45 in the morning ... almost time hubby was getting up .... opps ... guess my excitement is getting the best of me ... but the eyes are really telling me it is time to get off the computer and go to bed ... so ... that is what I am going to do ...

catch you all when I am up and about ....







Sunday, January 11, 2015

2015 ... well it is not waiting ...

Time is not waiting for me or anyone else it would seem ... the days and months and years just keep chugging along ... and I guess it is up to us to keep up with them ... or fall miserably behind ... 

well .... I am rather puffed from trying but will keep at it ... for the time being anyway ... 

I have managed to do a bit of sewing ... nothing Earth shattering ... but doing enough to keep hubby from repossessing my sewing room .. lol ... 

All I have done is a few blocks ... one for a swap with QSBA .. the other is a BOM for a Facebook group ... and the last one is for a cushion I hope to have ready for my daughter for her birthday ... need to get that done and in the mail this week .. oh and 2 cardtrick blocks that I made ... I was in a swap awhile back but only recieved 10 blocks and really need 12 to do a quilt top in a reasonable size .. 

ok .. this is one I made for a Facebook quilting group I am in
it is a BOM
I love the red and whites .. I do think this quilt will be stunning ...



 This is a swap block that I made for Sue B 
for the QBSA group ... 
I am very pleased that I am again doing the monthly swaps ..  



 This is the block I recieved from Sue B for the above swap



This is a block that will eventually (in the next couple of days) 
become a cushion cover for my daughter for her birthday ...



Some time back I asked for cardtrick blocks in one of the swaps I was in ... When I pulled them out last week I found I only had 10 ... now I could remove one of those and make a small knee rug .. or .. I could make 2 more and make a more substantial sized snuggle rug .. 

So that is what I did ... and ended up with these 




I just noticed .. this is my 100th blog post ... YAY I made it !!!!