Roll on summer...

is all I can say!!!! Have I told you all before that I dislike winter???? LOL
Never the less.... more finished (or near finished) work by some of the Thursday Craft ladies.
This quilt is made by Teena and is her first attempt!! A terrific effort.This is Una with another of her Heart Quilts - love the colours.One of the Margaret's (there are a few in the group - the rest are called Mary!! LOL - been calling one of the ladies Mary all year only to find her name is Jan!!!) has just about finished a lovely bear quilt stitchery.Quilty Gal (one of the Snobs and Slobs ) has made this lovely quilt top - using only what she had in her stash! Well done Claire, lovely quilt.

Well I am about to move from the computer desk to the sewing table to complete some tops, so see you all later.

How I hate the cold winter....

but at least we have had some reasonable rain!!! Tonight our cats decided that they would help out and with our hobbies - Rose thought SW needed some guidance on the computer while Tiger was busy supervising the sewing! They are so funny at times - usually Rose sits and waits for the SW to finish and promptly jumps into the warm seat :)
Last Thursday many of the Craft ladies finished their quilts off - so here are some more following from previous postings -
Norma and her green quilt - going as a gift to her sister who is in aged care. Jessie's lovely brown quilt - also going as a gift to a sister. And a pink one that I think she is keeping. Ella finished quilting her lovely quilt and it is now finished!There are still a few ladies who are working on their quilts so stay tuned for the rest!!!

As you might know from previous years - we (SW and I) belong to S.A.M.E and our annual show is coming up in August (more in future posts). The club has been gathering our bits and pieces and getting ready for the show :)) One of the things we do is have a raffle for several room boxes over the duration of the weekend. Here is one that has been completed and ready to go - it is in 1/24th scale so is quite small. (Keep your eyes posted for more to come)Well, I am off to try and warm my feet up before they drop off with the cold!

More nearing the end...

...of the wonderful quilts that the Thursday ladies have been making this year.
Dianne with her Blue one
Margaret with her Green one
Mary with her Pink one - Mary has added another 3 of her own blocks to make this a larger quiltClose up of the bottom centre blockI took my machine along today so that the ladies could see how to do free hand stippling and little patterns themselves on the quilts. Jessie had to be prised off with a chisel at the end of the morning!!!! Guess who might finish her quilt first????

A winner!!!!

Tonight our local Spotlight store had a market night - so off Quilty Gal and I trotted, quilts tucked neatly under our arms. They were having a bit of a competition as well as the market so we thought we would give it a go and see how we fared this year. So....guess what???? I won!!!! woohoo...a big THANK YOU to all the folks that voted for my quilt and thanks to Spotlight for the lovely voucher of $100 to spend - after having vowed this year that we (both Quilty Gal and I) weren't going to buy fabric we would just stash away, we relented and spent 2/3's of the voucher:)))The quilt that won is "Florence's Floral Folley" - so thanks mum!!
Pic is with Janice who organised the comp and Nathan, the store manager :))

Rain!!!!!!

but where did it go??? We had a little thunder and a bit of lightening and then some rather large raindrops....and now a cricket chirping in the window!!!!!!!!This year at our craft group we decided (or I decided!) that we would do a Mystery Quilt. Some of the ladies are now getting near the completion of the project top. So here is Ella with her purple top.

Lorraine with her green top.

Una's almost completed quilt - Una added three blocks of her own to make it a larger quilt.

One of the Snobs put together her 'scraps' and came up with this lovely quilt top. Lorraine said it just grew and grew and didn't realise how big it was till she finished sewing it all together. I think it is absolutely beautiful - as are all Lorraine's quilts!

In a previous post, I uploaded some pics of two quilts, well now they are finished!! Yeh!!!! The first is called "Sew Many Hearts", this is going off to our local hospital cancer unit for raffling next week along with a small settee that my Dad has made.


The second is the hexagon quilt made with my Mums fabric - 'Florence's Floral Fancy'. I quilted it with the pattern called Florence, which is a flower pattern and am thrilled with the finished product. My dad cut the hexagon papers and fabric for me so it was a joint effort. Tried to get him to tack some of the hexagons, but at the end of a nights work and only having 5 hexagons 'tacked' (speaking loosely here) he decided that it was a good job he was not on piece work and getting paid, so he gave it up as a bad joke. Anyway, the quilt will go to him once I have done a couple of show and tells!



I am hoping to be able to get a bit more sewing done this week - got the yukky stuff to do next - taking up hems on men's pants and fixing some other bits and pieces up :(((

So till later, stay warm!

The sun was shining brightly.....

still!!! Its winter and we have hardly seen any cloud or rain :( However, we did have a wonderful S&S weekend again as usual. We were very good food wise - as you can see, there was very little junk food this time round :)

We did have a dessert on Friday night tho, Kay made a lovely rice pudding.

Claire took her machine down this time and she cut and sewed her lovely fabric finally - we have had the packs since Christmas!!! The pattern is called Bread and Butter and looks good enough to eat.

She (Claire) also found a new friend down at the house - so she has a pet rock for companionship when she is feeling lonely.

Kay put some of her hexagons together and so far the quilt is looking lovely - and getting bigger and closer to the end day by day.

We were very good tho in regards to shopping for fabric on the way down - we called into Tricia's Discount Fabrics - and we ONLY bought what we needed to finish off projects!!!! How good is that????

Then of course Sunday afternoon came and it was back to reality - called in to Spotlight on the way home - but guess what??? We didn't buy a single thing! I think a trip to the docs might be in order for us now tho :( must be something wrong when quilters don't buy fabric!!!!!!

Oh my goodness....

I can't believe it has been sooo long since I last posted!!! Well now, whats been happening??? My dad had his knee replaced several weeks ago so he has been the main agenda. However, I have managed to get some hand sewing done in between docs visits etc. I have buttonholed about 250 hearts to be made into a couple of charity quilts..

finished hand sewing a quilt of hexagons that you might remember seeing on an earlier blog. This was my mums fabric...so have put them together and have called it "Florence's Floral Folly". The quilts just need to be quilted next!!!

and even went on a wine trip to the Barossa Valley with some friends! It was the first time I have been in a stretched Limo!!!

The quilt below is the first quilt one of the young ladies at the Thursday morning craft has completed :) Well done Shelley :)))

This weekend is our bi-annual Snobs and Slobs weekend away, unfortunately through different circumstances there will only be one Snob and two Slobs this time. However, we shall endeavour to have a good weekend nevertheless!!!

Happy Easter to you all

Am I deaf????? Can I walk????

Only slightly! and not properly!!! But what a fab day yesterday at the Clipsal - Holdens Rule!!! The weather was cool. The drinks expensive. But!!!!! The view was THE BEST!!! Who could ask more but to end a wonderful day with a wonderful view????? I know, youre asking what is she raving on about???...............Jon Stevens of course!!! It has been 14 years since I last watched Noiseworks with Jon perform and it felt like it was only yesterday...did they belt out the music and it was just the best. And of course there was Mental as Anything - ok. Ian Moss - great. Status Quo - do they rock!!! But you can't beat Jon. And for all out there that might be interested, it was mentioned there is a possibility that they (Noiseworks) will perform again towards the end of the year...woooohooo.
So anyway......today is back to reality and nose to the grindstone :(

V8's here we come....

LOL!!! Tis the Clipsal 500 weekend here in sunny, warm Adelaide. My friend and I will be terrorising the track and field this Sunday :))) So anyone else that is going that might be reading this...look out LOL Tomorrow I will be dropping SW and Bro off so they can have their day at the track - which is good cos then I get a whole day to myself!!!!!!!!!!

Well today I spent a lovely day with Kristina and Naomi, sitting chatting and stitching. Thank you girls for a very nice day. Looking forward to the next one :)

Some of you might remember (or take a peek back to 2008 UK trip if you don't) my hubby was nicknamed the 'Squirrel Whisperer' after he had 'tamed' a wild squirrel while we were visiting our friends in Wales. Well....the little fella (or girl) has grown up a bit and has come back to visit the abode! Our friends seem happy the squirrel has returned and are kindly feeding it some lovely seeds and nuts. Next blog should have some pics of my new pieces of furniture - dont hold your breath those that know me personally - but......I have FINALLY purchased a china cabinet!!!!!!!!woooohoooo after only 25 years !!!!
Getting delivered next week, so I guess I might have to do some dusting of ornaments and hoovering at some stage.........maybe I wont either hahahahahaha

Whats new pussycat...

whoa whoa whoa :)) LOL This is my latest bag!Which was inspired by this bag below. The picture is surrounded by lots of buttons...its a great way to use up all the odd ones in your collection and looks great too. So thanks Sandy for the pic of your bag xx

This little house was sooooo cute, I had to share it with you. It is one that SW has just finished. It is not living at my place unfortunately tho :( It is only small so you can tuck it up under your arm and go off and play !!
Adelaide has the Fringe Festival on at the moment, so last Friday a friend and myself thought we would go and take a look. Sadly we were ill informed about the times. So off we trotted to town only to find nothing started till 5pm!! So we had lunch in a lovely Chocolate Bean Cafe in the East End of town then went to Amoccoco ( a very large non jumping castle type thingy!!) This was a pic from inside. Very interesting place to visit - specially saying it was only $2 each to get in!! Then we chuffed off to a local hotel and had a beer (something I haven't done for a VERY long time) and then up the Mall we went. We were very good tho, didn't buy any shoes on this trip LOL
Friday night SW and myself visited with some friends who had friends over from interstate and the UK. Lovely cool night outside, great company and good drinks. Thanks Brian and Glenice and Co, we had a great time.

A few weeks down the track....

..and I thought it was time to put a post on here! Thank you to all the lovely people in and out of Blogland that sent their kind thoughts to me and my family after the passing of my mum. I would like to share a little happening that occurred after mum passed away. On the day that we were going to get the flowers for the funeral (a friend is a florist, so said friend did a beautiful job!), my monthly quilting pattern arrived - this is like a magazine subscription, you never know what you might get. When I opened the packet, I found the pattern was a floral one, but the name of the pattern blew me away totally...."Florence"..... which was my mums name!!!! So make of it what you will!!!Anyway, here is my new project....the fabric is out of my mums stash....all shades of purple/lilac. My dad helped me cut out the paper for the hexagons and then he cut out ALL of the fabric for me!! Couldn't get him to sew it tho :( LOLThis is one of my brothers doing his impersonation of Gene Simmons of KISS fame - with a slice of jelly!!!!
More food here yet again....my friends daughter had her friend come to visit Adelaide a few weeks ago from interstate... so we took them to Bracegirdles at Toorak Gardens for afternoon tea. We had a yummy lollie/chocolate fondue. I think we waddled out of there a little waddlier than we waddled in!!!
The SW's cousin had her 70th Birthday celebration in January, so I thought I would make her a Double Irish Chain quilt. Her mother was Irish and she loves greens and creams to thought this would be quite appropriate - I think the face tells how surprised she was at the gift.

One of my long time friends had a new addition to her family in December, so she asked my dad to make one of his famous chairs for the new great grandson. We went looking for fabric but couldn't find anything that we thought suited the moment...then I remembered I had purchased some car fabric some time ago....as usual it had been put in the cupboard for 'later', so I dug it out and presto! we have a uniquely covered chair for a little boy. (His dad has an old Holden so it fitted the bill very well.)

Last Saturday several of us quilters met up for a surprise lunch. We all had a lovely time catching up with each other (it has been several years since we had been together) We ate and chatted and promised to do it again but sooner the next time!!We have had a landing of a different kind in our kitchen!!! No...its not an alien spaceship - although I thought it was when my SW turned it on!!! Its one of those little ovens that cooks very quickly without much fuss or mess. Well, in the couple of weeks that I have had it, I have cooked nearly every night in it and it is wonderful!!! Very little heat, less cooking time and the flavour of the food stays in the food! Don't know why I didn't get one earlier!!!!
Well, tomorrow is Snobs and Slobs day again ...... seems like an eternity since the last one even though it was only two weeks ago! So I guess putting the world right will be on the agenda again!!! Cant wait.....