Little Quilts

I had my final machine sewing session in this house today

I managed to get both my little quilts quilted.

Little Red Schoolhouse

finished size 16"x16"

Prairie Baskets

finished size 17"x17"

I am going to use Prairie Baskets on the hutch under the

fruit bowl and Little Red Schoolhouse is going to hang on

the wall in my new sewing room.

We got the keys today

so exciting, it all starts tomorrow

fingers crossed the rain holds off

latest weather update is

40-80mm....

and some not so good quality photo's (taken on my

iphone) of my new sewing room

and what I get to look at everyday, today the weather is crappy

so you will have to visualise blue skies

looking into where my sewing cabinet will sit, to the left will

be my cutting table and the wall you see will have my

design wall, there are bifold doors, so when we have

visitors I will just pull them shut

and the to die for view, I can see myself getting very distracted

sitting at this window, the master bedroom, living room and

Emma and Imogens room all get this view out of their

windows.

to the right of the pic is the vege garden, we will eventually be building a chook

pen in the opposite corner. Can't wait to actually move in and

call it home :)

Its Shrinking :) :) :)

This is what met you at the garage door on Sunday

lots and lots of boxes, the pile has grown since

I finished packing up my sewing room today,

took down my design wall :(

packed all my little quilts that were hanging up

took the skirt of the quilting frame

packed up all my cutting mats and rulers

but I just couldn't bring myself to pack my sewing machine

away, my current project or my little cutting mat

maybe tomorrow I will do that

I packed all the wine into boxes

dusted the hutch, tv, bookcases

packed up the crystal cabinet, have packed all

I can until we go

while I was busy downstairs, Sophie and her bestie Miss E

were upstairs playing monopoly with Henry

Emma was on a scout excursion, while she was out they went to the

rockpools to clean up the little beach and to look in the rockpools

all was good until she slipped on a rock

look at the mess she made of her knee, poor girl

Tomorrow we have Master A and Miss K coming over for a couple

of hours to have a final play with the girls before they leave on Thursday

(they lived in our new house, mum has a new Marine Pilots job up north)

and other than that we have no plans.

and to top it all off its supposed to pour here

until Saturday

10-20mm Wed

20-40mm Thur

40-80mm Fri

aren't I going to have fun running from house to car, car to house in that

delightful weather.

We get the keys tomorrow afternoon

YIPPEE

and the bestest news ever

Mum saw one of her Cancer doctors today and on her latest xray

her lung tumor has shrunk significantly she said that it was very

obvious before treatment and now its hard to see it. She is thrilled

SO AM I, I know that she will never be cured of it, but YAY YAY YAY

her horrid radiation and baby chemo has worked

So much going on

 its just so overwhelming and I am doing

everything I can to avoid doing what I 

need to do!

I have packed 1 room and the linen cupboard

tomorrow I am cleaning out the kitchen and I really

need a couple of hours at my sewing machine to finish of a

swap project.

I have until Thursday to get uber organised.....

I really hate moving, especially when I have to pack the house myself.

Miss Emma has her very first soccer game tomorrow

we went and got her boots, shorts, socks and

shin pads this morning.

Her game is in Merimbula so its an early start out the door

by 8:55 at the latest.

Then home to boxes........

My mama is finally home after a week in hospital

3 blood transfusions, daily radiation and 7 days

of IV antibiotics have her back on her feet.

She has 2 days left of radiation then a couple of weeks

break before she starts the 'big' chemo .

Thank you all for the well wishes for my mama

I really appreciated them all xxx

A OPAM Finish

and there is a good chance it will be my only finish

for April due to moving house

Hubby bought home the latest Homespun magazine on Saturday

on the cover was a gorgeous sewing machine cover

that I knew I needed to have.

Yesterday I made the time to sit and sew

but thanks to my iron (big scorch mark that will teach me for keeping

the old iron for sewing), the design has changed just a little

bit

Ta Da, one very snug fitting sewing machine cover

isn't it cute, I am really happy with it.

Today I am working on a swap item, I need to get it made

before the weekend, so I can concentrate on the immense

task of packing the house, with the kids here......

roll on the evening of the 21st, we will be happily living

in the house on the hill.

NYB progress

Last week I stuffed one of the New York Beauty blocks

really stuffed it

so I asked DH to print me off another copy and then discovered

that the original blocks had all been printed the WRONG SIZE

they were to small.

After thinking about it ALL NIGHT I decided to redo all

the blocks I had done the correct size

ta da the correct size blocks

This one is now complete with 4 blocks

This means I am up to date and ready to sew this weeks blocks, and my

stash of Batiks is shrinking quickly

I got back into my Hexagon centres last night, still have the final 25 to

sew together but the end is in sight.

and today I got some happy mail

Season 2 of Lark Rise

Thank you all so much for the lovely comments on my last post.

we LOVE skype and so does she lol

and its only 15 days til we get the keys &
19 days until the removalists arrive :)

TGIF

Is all I can say

I am still recovering from the full on go go go day

we have yesterday.

Hubs and I went to Bega, to collect a few things the campers

need for this weekend, and wine glasses for our party

this weekend

Of course as we were in Bega we visited the

patchwork shop because I needed to get some needles

for the quilty beast, and some stabiliser for Miss Sophie

and somehow some Batik's came home with me too.

the bottom 2 are from Bega, the others are from Merimbula

wine glasses and new tumblers

In Big W, 2 books and a dvd fell into the trolley too ;)

we also popped into the reject shop because I saw this in their catalogue

and I wanted it! Isn't she cute

We had a meeting last night and didn't get home until 8:30

today I have to clean the house, someone is coming to look through

with the owner today or Sunday, with a view to renting it as its 20 days

until we get the keys to the House on the Hill.....

and thanks for the comments on the brown block, I totally agree and will

remake it asap. It actually turns out that hubbby didn't print the patterns the

correct size, mine are small. So I have reprinted the patterns at the right

size and will be redo-ing all the blocks I have done.

DOH!



A happy Monday

Today was my once a month sewing day

out of the house with the local quilting group

and I am thrilled to say I got quite a bit

done,

like this cathedral window pincushion

2 foundation pieced blocks for a small quilt

14 more hexagons for my Kaleidoscope hexagon quilt, they need

ironing though

and last night I finished off the centre medalion for my

Aunt Grace's circle of friends quilt

so it was a happy monday for me.

We are offically moving house at the end of April, into

the Harbour Masters house, my new sewing room will have

ocean views, we will have room for gardens

and we are getting some chickens again.

Happy Happy Happy :)