Is Anybody

Still reading my little blog??

Somedays I wonder why I keep blogging

but then I remember why I started, and that was

 to keep a journal of sorts of my quilting 

journey and that of my life

My hubby tells me that I am like and open book

ask and I will tell..... anything

I blog the good and the bad, Henrycats shenanigans

and the girlies going ons not just my quilting

But thats just me, I have no secrets.

 I am just curious to know if anyone still pops

by and has a read! 

Leave me a comment if you do please

That being said, school goes back tomorrow

YIPPEE my first silent day in 2 weeks

hopefully the gas heater people will make an

appearance though and fix our broken down heater

we have been heater-less since Friday and 

its been very very cold in our little house.

Our bedroom has been repainted and we have moved back in

its so much brighter now. 

I have almost finished block 4 of

Friends for Christmas just have 3 crowns, a star and

a penguin arm to stitch down and today I prepped block 5

ready to start stitching tomorrow hopefully

that means I have 2 blocks to go and it will be 

finished :)

Oh big excitement is Emma's soccer team scored their

1st goal for the season on Sunday and most amazing of

all was that Em scored that lone goal, she was so very excited when

she got home on Sunday after her game and could wait to tell

me :)

I do at some stage have to plant some vegies in our

vegie patch, and some ground covers and we were given

a Hills Hoist clothesline on the weekend, 

in return for sewing some cub scout badges 

on to a shirt.

I love our new HUGE clothesline

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 :)

36

Civil War quilt blocks are

now completed

Yesterday the weather man was spot on

we got 57 mm's of rain in just under 24 hours

perfect stitching weather

the girlies watched movies

I got to sew ALL DAY

sorry about the 2 photos but this is what my design wall

looks like at the moment and blogger won't post them

side by side for me :(

I need to change the 2nd row # 6 block

the background needs to blend in a

bit more, atm it sticks out.

Today was a gorgeous if not windy day

so

I weeded a garden bed today and we now have a

small vege patch with

sweetcorn

2 x chillies

2 x capsicum

snow peas

lettuce

bok choy

and then in another bed we have 4 different varities

of tomatoes.

I have also finished block 5 of

In My Garden

I am just adding the fence 'rails and nails'

the palings are all done and so is the gate

Friday night I stitched all the embroidery on the other 4

blocks, and added the needleturn bits that hadn't been done

dh printed some patterns for me at work yesterday

I also found the pattern online for a quilt I started at the begining

of the year, using yummy Park Avenue fabric, the original pattern went awol

in the move so I printed it

off and tomorrow will pull out all my bits and see where I am

up to, after the house gets a good clean between the rain, the dog

and the kids its much needed :)