Lucy got some fresh air......

After doing nothing for the first 1.5hrs I finally dug Lucy out.............

It's time she got some fresh air having not worked on her since Feb (the last pics I found)

I worked on the bottom right corner pieces...........

I think we had about 26 people pop thru during the day........some popping in and out several times..........I only took this pic........always great to see everyone and have a chat.........

chatter about the Queen was a definite topic........so sad but so pleased she died as Queen.........

So the four Lucy blocks in the bottom corner got bits added to them then added to the quilt.........she is coming together.........then this also needs to happen on the bottom left corner..........and adding a few bits around the edges that are missing........

these trees are in mass flower............no idea what the name is........but they are out in the paddock and there is a thick patch near the front gate so easy to enjoy..........

The country side is pretty with flowers in lots of places..........wild rape growing here.......looked so pretty with the rain clouds forming..........

Catch you later..........

Chookyblue......

Rusty collection.......

those who have been on zoom may have seen this pic.....my rusty old machine collection........I have a couple more in another spot also.........9 here so I think I have 11 in total..........always happy to gather a few more.........the one on the front left that still has some board on it I have since sat it on some bricks in the garden....

   see my cute little chickens on the edge of the pavers too.....

I've got a bit more of Lucy joined......

Was thinking we may be able to zoom next Saturday but we have a planned power outage so unless it gets too wet during the week and it gets canned that won't work........so I'll keep working on a plan and get back to you when I work something out.......

pic of the dam...........I've been over here for many trips as I need to start a pump every time I want to water the garden........yesterday there was more of an issue with the old pipes so we got the wheel of death down from the neighbour's and dug trenches to lay new pipe.....what a crap job on a very hot afternoon....I faded and called in assistance.......we would never have got it finished last night..........still got some trenches to dig from the end of the trench to the pump by hand but I will pass on that job.........

ALSO in that job we ran a new power supply for the Chookshed so I can get a bigger air conditioner in there.........OMG I cannot wait for that.........

My poor little air con is just not big enough but runs off normal power.....

Anyway.....that's enough for one post......hope you are all well......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.......

wow what a start to 2022......

last week was just making a few blocks.......yes I know I achieved but this weekend on zoom I really can see the difference from the start to the finish.........

here we are at the start of the day.........

zoom started bright and early as usual in my time zone......6am i cracked off and very quickly I was joined by lots of the international girls...........

everyone is often head down as they are busy sewing.....

I had to join this filler block in to the section I wanted to add to the main quilt.......

and I had to join this block onto the bottom right...........

...then it was joining joining join.........felt like it was never going to end.........

Found one of the lambs stuck under an old combine..........

finally with me annoying it lots it got out........

as girls pop in and out all day sometimes you suddenly look up and there are 23 girls on the screen....My main co conspirator Lou from NZ assures me we got to 24 for a short time.......that's a record girls........I think this time we had 33 join altogether......

Sunset was pretty spectacular when I had ducked out to move a hose............Sylvia had not long before shared her sunrise in Germany..........so I had to snap this to show the girls..........

few bubbles and cheese were required as I had to keep my stitching stamina up......

working in so many time zones is funny......someone's having breaky someone else is having dinner or lunch.......

this time we had a few newbies.......Jackie and Mary in Canada, Hanne in Norway........I hope I have not missed any newbies........this time we covered Canada, USA, Norway, Germany, UK, New Zealand and Australia.........Hanne and Sharon were surprised we were still on when they got up........Sylvia came back as usual so we stayed on for ages after that chatting and sewing more........it was a late night for me.........we shut down at 10pm.......

But look at my progress........the big gap on the bottom right is not all sewn in............I even started sewing in a block in the gap and I had it about 1/2 in and my thread ran out and so did my ability to keep sewing.........

Another wonderful time with everyone.........love seeing what everyone is working on.........Karen hope you can get your technology sorted so you can sew with us next time....but you are great at keeping the conversation going.......

so now its trying to work out what goes where and joining 2 more rows...........then I will decide what size I want to make the quilt but I will get it to 6x7 before I make a decision..........

Thanks girls for the motivation and inspiration.......

Catch you later.........

Chookyblue..........

Christmas zoom......

What fun yesterday was............carefree and relaxed...........me time......

Just what was needed after the last month........

and refueled I feel so thankyou girls......

bright and early start as usual at 6am (my time).......almost as soon as I was logged in the international girls popped straight in.........

I worked on Lucy yesterday for a change...........I added the creams to the block under my glasses and made some joining blocks..........Kept me busy all day although I don't feel like I achieved alot....I did do more then this pic...........

Later in the afternoon I heard some thunder...........pretty quickly this turned into a storm that hit us........14mm later and a few power flickers I stayed on mute for awhile as the rain on the roof was so loud and I was having internet issues......but it all settled down and I was back to the chatter..........

thanks to those who help kept the conversation going.........but we do have times of silence rare as it may be it is not awkward........we are just all busy sewing.......

Girls popped in and out all day this time from Austalia, New Zealand, Germany, USA, Canada and UK........some stay all day some for long periods others short.....some in and out and in and out......what ever works for you.........

We had 3 new ladies join us which was great.........Welcome Sharon, Julie and Sharmayne........I will add them to my left sidebar shortly (please check your own link is correct).....

Don't forget everyone should be on the sidebar except a couple of my friends who come to the Scrub Stitchin Retreat that don't have blogs........

A few popped in just to say hi and send Christmas New Year wishes..........

I'm out in the Chookshed again for a short time today.........

get this post done and sort a few bits and pieces........

I feel inspired.........not commited to making a list for 2022 Karen but might pop some blocks up on the wall that I can play with daily and see what happens by the next time we blog.........which my friends should be next weekend since I am avoiding the covid world.........

If all goes to plan Sunday morning for Aust/NewZealand, Sat afternoon various times for USA/Canada and Sat evening for UK/Germany or get up early Sunday morning and join us........i am hoping it will be a big day once again..........

new blogger are welcome it is not a select group..........

I love the companionship, the mixed conversation of so many tops and learning bits about other countries.....we are a big mix of styles, techniques, skill levels and it just works........people are willing to share knowledge, provide support and actively encourage others to take on new projects for which we will cheer from the sidelines but hold no responsibility for (wink wink)

Thankyou blog girls........

I promise I will be catching up on your blog posts..........

Catch you later.........

Chookyblue.........

Lucy update......

As I said I would add a Lucy update here it is...........

I think she has enjoyed getting a breath of fresh air and I know I have enjoyed working on her again............she been a journey thru lots of good and bad times........so in some ways what will I do when she does get finished............don't worry that won't happen this week.........and we need to end in a good time and that isn't now so it might take some time..........

Its been so long I forgot what I was up too......maybe a few years since she has been alive.........

I have some blocks that don't have background added so got a few of those ready.........

These are the background blocks and I have 2 full ones to make like above and several edge ones to finish.......if I have the blocks like this and the one above I just keep joining blocks............no other pieces need to be fitted in...........

So here she is before we went away..........(which seems like a million years ago)

See the big section on the bottom right..........While away I got that together and a few blocks needed some work to get them to the joining stage so very happy with the progress.........I have since added a block to the bottom left of that unit and located what block goes in the gap up the side......so once I sew it in I will attach this unit to the main quilt............then I will be well over 1/2 way............on the home straight some might say but there is another 2 rows to add on and i'm still not decided on the final size until I get more together and lay Lucy on a bed.............

Is this some motivation for you Lou@Manxgirl Living and Crafting Downunder 

Mind you i'm so far behind she may have her quilt done she's such a busy girl......but she may have been lead astray by the squirrel once again and off on another project........

Apologies for not replying to my last post.......thanks for the advice........life has been a little challenging and now we are in lockdown........I may actually be working from home.........who knows...i'm on a few days leave........I was supposed to work from home last year and it lasted 8 days.........but the numbers are not great......worse again today regionally so I doubt we will get to come out of lockdown next week.........

Take care and stay safe..........

Chookyblue.....

Stitchin and walking

Friday I got to enjoy a fancy walk............farming friends who live in more civilised country...........OMG the grass was to die for..............

Big trees...........

long narrow tree lined tar roads................

Beautiful views of grassy paddocks...........

stitching in the car..........first time I have picked up Lucy since my finger got jammed in the door in November last year............big break..........I had been working on Edwardsia this year once I was able to EPP stitch again..........finger nail is still growing back slowly............heaps of the numbness is gone but it is still a bit funny...........the annoying thing is I thought I had sewn all bags of pieces up for Lucy.......I found a bag not done.........and some is missing so I must have a search for the stitching bag I had with me then......................

Got to sit and enjoy this beautiful garden view over a cuppa with my friend Annette..............

sunrise or sunset it's always beautiful...............

hit my walking goal this morning of 120kms for March Charge Cancer Council now lets see if I can hit 150kms by the end of the week..........

i'm at 126kms now after 7kms this morning........

6 days another 32 kms........

thats over 5kms/day........

i'll give it a crack for sure..........

what exercise have you done today???

have a fabulous Sunday........

Catch you later....... Chookyblue.....

Lucy update.......

Friday night stitching...........OMG it was so good...........my buddy Kylie, champagne, stitching, slipping and sliding thru the paddocks to get home (early mark from work) because we got another 26mms of rain............I can see the green tinge growing today as the day has gone on.......perfect grass growing day........OMG exciting........still got a way to go but its the best rain for 12 months what we have had this month.........can't stop feeding yet but hopefully we can soon........

Champagne............English paper piecing........Kylie started cutting a new special project.............

I glued a few for her...........and glued a few Lucy's.........Even pieced one of her blocks...........and she nearly had one done before she had to go home..............

The sunset light was amazing..........so not captured in this photo but you can see the light glistening on some PUDDLES................OMG PUDDLES................

Today inbetween many other things I spent some time working out the nitty gritty for Lucy..................

laid her all out on the floor and worked out what needs what to finish blocks, fillers, make edge fillers, corners etc...........

Once this pile is glued and packed like the top right bag I will be done with Lucy gluing...........woohoo......the end is in sight.......esp if I have no more cutting.........unless she grows another row - still to be determined once the whole top is together........

ok must go........

dinners cooking.......chicken rolled roast and baked vegies........

Have a fabulous weekend..........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.....

Lucy and flowers......

nothing much to say other then 10 hrs in a car as passenger you can get a fair bit of sewing done.......so once I had the cream on the other block in my last post I started sewing some new blocks............

I think it takes about 3 hours to sew this together..............anyone else timed how long this takes to sew together........just the sewing............have not included the cutting and gluing..............

some flowers along the way...........

this one looks prettier then in this photo........

these are all from Shiralee Stitches..........the ones I prepped last month........

these will be in Lucy2

this one now just needs it's next set of red pairs added on.............

Could have nearly got it finished but fingers were getting sore from stitching and after 4.5hrs with a 10 min break I had had enough.....

my tally for Lucy is over 50 blocks now............

never to late to start a Lucy.........

Are you doing Lucy????

How are you going with your blocks and quilt????

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Lucy prep......

Yesterday was a great day..............

I forgot on the weekend I was going to be home yesterday morning.............

It's one day at a time here some days..............

Anyway yesterday I had a supervise an exam for Boy Wonder..........

It had to be a quiet task, not too distracting and near him to supervise.......

YES YES I can hear you.......Lucy was calling........

So I sat and preped some Lucy...........all the unprepared ones in the tin from Sandy..........

I cut the non fussy backgrounds and traced out all the fussy blocks...........

I got the 4 that were not done to this point...............

pretty happy with that.......

then I had 2 cut in the tin ready for papers so I got them glued too.............

sometimes the fussy gluing is the worst part...........trying to get it perfect on the paper because if it is glued well it sews well.............

then one of my besties arrived for the night.........

she'll be back again Fri and Sat nights too.......

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue..... 

Lucy.......

Well these blocks are not really showing Lucy progress and stitching time for me at the moment....... It's just I finally got time to take a photo of the blocks...... 

One got finished in June and the other July........ 

Today is my first day at home in about 6 weeks and the house sure is showing that......

But I have found my way to the Chookshed and I vacuumed some bugs up...... Not sure how but they find there way in......

I had some cream strips in the house for backgrounds and brought them back out to the Chookshed and finally cut some..........I had run out of pieces to join in my sewing tin.... It needed a massive restock.......

I've been in and out all day catching up on heaps of washing...... Slowly putting things away......

Wished I could find a cleaner........ Just one every month or two would be great...... 

The boys ran away and avoided 'pettycoat government' aka house cleaning....... So I got slack with what I have achieved to.... Still in my pjs and about to go have a shower and change into clean pjs.....it's been nice to bum around all day......

I'll finish with the pile of Lucy blocks...... 

These two will probably go into Lucy 2 but for now they look good on the stack....... 

I've lost count on blocks but maybe these bring the tally to 48?

WOOOPPPPPPPSSSSS

I then went looking for my other Lucy stash.........

4 hrs later I am finishing the post...........

So I have 6 of Sandy's blocks in here.............2 cut and 4 to cut............

so that makes the pieced total 42 I think instead............

AND there are another 7 cut in the tin too.......

I have said I have a problem..........My Friend Lucy is an addiction............

I think these came from The Quilters Angel..........

yes they are for fussy cutting more Lucy blocks.............

And these ones were just because I like the blue and green and they are fat 1/4's............not sure of the range does anyone know............

Anyway........must go to bed soon........

hope you had a good weekend.......

Catch you later..........

Chookyblue.......