Midnight at the Oasis

After rearrange my sewing room I decided it was time to get back

to working on my Midnight at the Oasis quilt, the hubster 

gave it to me for Christmas last year.

this is where I was up to when I had to put it away due to other

commitments, and it sat on my sewing chair all weekend waiting

for the sew-jo to strike

I started with one little churn dash block on Tuesday afternoon

which quickly grew into 7 little churn dash blocks by

Tuesday night 

they are so sweet and little, 5.5" unfinished

last night I had 46 of the 52 needed made, today I am hoping 

to get those final 6 made.

This weekend my quilting group is holding a quilt show,

it is also my little towns annual Whale Festival, so here is my

pile of quilts ready for me to take down for some show & tell.

To be honest I am not sure I am a good fit for the group, I am the youngest,

the oldest is almost 90, its a very eclectic mix of people, so I think after

this weekend I might just hang  up my hat, wish them well and leave.

I need to get out, it's an exclusive club that you are allowed to join

but only if they 'approve' of you and what you are doing!!! Just sewing

hexagons without a plan in mind is not acceptable

and for that you will not be invited back! Yes, that has 

happened, true story

I need to be involved with a group of like minded women, who have a laugh

and a good time, who are supportive and welcoming and are 

pleased to have newcomers join. 

I need to move towns to find that.

*Sigh*

So I have a question for you

If you are a member of a social quilting group or a quid

do you have any expectations when you join??

Change is as good as a Holiday

After a loong hiatus from blogging (5 posts since Jan 1) I have decided

its time to get back into my normal ways.

So this will hopefully be the first of a twice weekly blogging session, ok

maybe it will be once a week, I guess time will tell.

So whats been happening in the life of me, not to much to be honest

I am still stitching away, but have been producing much more hand

work than machine work of late. I have been busy sample sewing for 

another lovely Australian designer, its lovely to think that

someone thinks my sewing is good enough and are willing

to pay me to make up their designs……

The girls and I baked up a storm on Saturday, we made

Chocolate Coconut Slice,

mini quiches for lunch

and an apple cake which I forgot to snap a picture of

and of course I continued with my 

'project in my head' project. The centre of this

will be made up of 169 EPP flowers and as of 

today I have 30 left to baste and sew.

I also moved my sewing room around today, I was just sick of the

layout and the mess, so I swap the drawers for my cutting table 

cupboard, and purged and cleaned and re jigged and found treasures

BEFORE

AFTER

These walls will not be bare for long, I have some delicious

mini quilts to hang there, I promise I will share when its

done.

Henry has a basket to sleep in now

You will have excuse the floor as I haven't vacuumed yet.

I visited Canberra with 2 friends and went to the Craft show

in August, I didn't buy too much, I did purchase this little 

sewing case, found some 1/2" hexie papers in my mess

and I managed to cover it so it now looks like this.

The Zebra is my favourite and no fabric has been used

twice, it was a great scrap busting project

My fingers were so sore when I finally finished stitching the

hexies to the case, I am sure a curved needle would work 

so much more

I've been working here and there on Aunties Greens Garden, this picture

isn't 'current' as I am working on the bottom floral borders.

I have a question that I hope someone can answer,

Blog Lovin, do I need it? what does it do and how do I get it??

Dilly Bag Along

Well here I am again blogging after a long absence. 

This time it's for gnomeangel a Dilly Bag Along. 

I choose to use a charm square pack I had of the CUTEST fabric for mine, 2 layer cake squares for the base and some text print and a gorgeous stripe.

I was a bit naughty and forgot to take photos as I went though Doh!

My finished bag

this is a huge dilly bag, and perfect if you have caught the hexie bug like me

No template plastic available……. I used 4 laminating sheets, laminated them together a voila

template plastic 

I have made mine for a friend, shhhhh don't tell her