It's Been a While

Since my last post, but I have been uber uber busy

we have had school holidays

tall ships visiting

lots of whales distracting me out the window

and birthday girl who turned 10

and 

a big big

secret squirrel stitching project!

School Holidays were a bit quiet, the girls had lots

of sleepovers here and at their friends houses,

trips to the beach, late nights and sleep ins, 

we worked in the garden planting out vegies for

summer, filling baskets with flower

seedlings.  

We had Tall Ships call into port on their way to Sydney 

for the International Fleet Review

the Soren Larsen

Lord and Lady Nelson leaving for Sydney

we also had visit

The Young Endeavour

Windward Bound

Whale Season, 2013 has been far to distracting for me,

most of these photos have been taken from our deck

the girls were trying so hard to get photos of the whales

breaching.....they didn't get any lol

this is taken from our deck, it was so close

Mother and calf breaching, taken on Imogens birthday

this one was taken from where the girls were standing

when they were trying to get photos.

Mums Quilts, 2 are still in their boxes, I just can't open them

I did open the quilt I made on her behalf for Emma and its gorgeous, the 

quilting is amazing, and it looks pretty good on my bed.

Em doesn't like it, but we did find a quilt top mum made in

amongst  her quilting stash that dad gave to me which

Emma loves, so I will quilt that for her and she will

have that quilt.

'Emma's Quilt'

the backing

the quilting pattern. I think its called

'Featheration'

I will start sewing the binding onto this next week at sewing day.

My secret squirrel project, lets just say getting a quilt top that is

needle-turn appliquéd and embroidered in 17 days is a 

MAMMOTH task.

I haven't been so sleep deprived since I had newborn twins.

It was posted to the quilter on Monday, she received it

Tuesday and I am just waiting to hear that the designer

has received it for binding and then its off to Quilt Market

in Houston next week.

As soon as I see photos of it finished I will share.