It came and it went...

Our 25th Festival of Miniatures that is!!!! If you would like to take a look at what we had on display please lop on over to S.A.M.E. and take a look - its quite a long blog, but worth the look :)

So not much has happened over the last few weeks due to the fact that we have been preparing and finishing off our projects for the Festival. However, I still got along to my Thursday craft group.

Jessie made another of the quilts that we did in group this year - this one I believe is going overseas.
Norma made a lovely little hexagon quilt from a book that her family bought her just recently.
Well done ladies!

We visited the relies last week and the Maddy the middle girl decided she was quite comfortable in her dressing gown over her clothes and of course had to top it off with her sunnies - and I just thought she looked so funny and cute, I had to take a pic!

August is almost here....

...so that means its almost time for our Annual Festival with the SA Miniature Club. It is our 25th Anniversary this year, so as expected the theme is silver. If you have time - please come along and see what we do in the 'little world' we often live in :)
Besides the 'little' displays, there are traders, demonstrations and of course scones and tea (and coffee and cake and sandwiches and an array of other delightful foods)

And the winner is....

well almost a winner!! We have had the Building and Home Improvement Expo on in Adelaide this weekend. Part of the show had a competition run by Interflora and my friend Lynette entered (as she is a florist :) ) and she took out two 1st prizes and came Overall Runner Up!!!! I was so thrilled for her. She won a lovely trophy - and money which is always handy. So if you want some nice flowers sent to someone or for yourself, just go and see her at Roses of Elizabeth and you will be sure to get a wonderful arrangement from a winner!!!Here is Lynette with her trophy and employers - Rob and Karen.



Well done Lynette!!!

A run out.....

and a bit of money spent!!! I know, I know....my friends! that I said I wasn't buying any fabric unless I had a project for it.......well........who could go past this great bargain???? SW and I took the Dads out for the day up to Strathalbyn and of course just HAD to go into Kirkbride Quilts!! These two beautiful packs were for sale, so they had to come home with me. One of the packs will be used in a project that is on the table at the moment and I am more than sure I can find something for the other pack!!! Anyway, Sally at Kirkbride, has now got a lovely cafe happening at the shop now - so not only are your eyes sent into a spin with the fabric delights but now your nasal passages are sent on a dream too!!!

Not much on the home front....

....even tho I say that, I wonder what I do with my time??? Friday was Snobs and Slobs Day at my place. Quilty Gal and her sister were doing some crocheting - this was the product at the end of the day!! Quilty Gal had been teaching Sis to crochet for the best part of the day - then we found out that Sis had previously been to lessons for said craft!!! We wouldn't of guessed - LOL!!!Last weekend SW and I went to a friends 80th Birthday - very nice indeed!! This is me and Yvonne (the 80th lady)

Then I went to a Baby Shower....looking forward to the baby coming along next month (or earlier according the mum-to-be).
I have been doing some sewing, but can only show you the mess I made making the quilt (as the finished product is a secret at the moment:) )This pic is of the last of my roses for the season - lasted over a week in the vase!! Amazing...for any of my flowers to last long!!!

We also had a lunar eclipse last week - took a pic of the moon before it happened - but it doesn't really show how bright the moon was - it was soooo bright that you couldn't see any stars in the sky!!! Anyway...made a wish so just waiting for it to come true now :)A friend has two guinea pigs - girls...then one turned to a boy.... and this littlie is the result!! How cute?Well, better go and get the tea prepared - celebrating my Dads birthday today :))

Go to this site....

'Stash Manicure' - lovely to visit for a read and they are having a wonderful giveaway :) (Just click the pic) Be quick cos it ends on the 4th July 2010!!!

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!!!