stuff.............

just trying to catch up.........you will be inundated with posts.................

Peg @ Happy in Quilting saw a need to send me a new diary.............Lynette Andersons fabrics..........

Now I can get myself organised..........and trust me with dates for the kids, school holidays dates and stuff on in general well my year is filling up fast............so much so i'm thinking I many not cope without this Peg so thanks heaps............

Jindi came to visit...........she left me a few treats..........more about her visit in another post.............

A skirt for niece no 3 - who came to stay in the holidays for a few days.........

Catch you later

Chookyblue

skirts for a niece............

Recently I made 2 skirts for my niece..............just forgot to show you girls..............

I LOVE this fabric...........and found it at Spotlight...............

This one is on a mini cord but cute russian dolls.............

Catch you later

Chookyblue

hot "n" dry and sewing.........

Sorry i don't have the SSCS posts prepared yet......

........busy with visitors, sewing and some lazing about.........

this is a new water trough for the cattle..........the boys had to get it moved and up and running.........

the reason they had to get it going is this dam has run out of water..............it's about 2-3 foot of silt and about 6 inchs of water......but cattle will just bog in it and sheep get stuck in it.............hopefully this week we will be able to de-silt it..........if we do I will show you some photos...........

the kids had fun playing in the dam..........they had been over in the morning and caught 2 big fish with their nets and then wanted me to go back in the afternoon.............

thats when i took these pics.........it was very funny as my boy had to drag himself out into the dam on top of the silt in the 6ins of water..........then he would stand and try and catch things with his net then move again..........the pic below is him dragging himself out of the dam.........

they caught some yabbies and moved them to another dam with more water.......most have buried down into the mud and will stay there until it rains and fills the dam again........

some old tanks that have rusted out.....

then we went down to another dam.......this one is deeper..........the kids got in and washed all the silt off themselves..........it was starting to dry and pulling hairs.....lol...........

hungry sheep came over to the dam hoping we would feed them............. 

more hungry sheep..........I hate going out in the paddocks at the moment............the sheep run up to you looking for the feed trailer...........

this is my house dam..........this is what I water my garden with and 1/2 the property...........there are other dams but none this big so when they run out this one is relied on a lot more pumping water to troughs in the paddocks...............

so i am cutting back watering in the garden......the lawns goes first as you can regrow it quickly once it does rain properly.........better to water shrubs and trees............who knows when it may rain again.......

....in the last 51/2 months we have had under 2inchs of rain hence why things are so bad..........

this month the daily temps are averaging 35.5degC

So what better to do when you don't want to look outside in the paddocks.........hide in the chook shed...........

These are the skirts for my nieces for christmas..........I brought the t-shirts and did a little applique on them........the girls loved them..........

Also I made Fairy Girl a dress...........supposed to be a 1hr dress but it took me longer as I was showing Fairy Girl how to read the pattern and getting her to help cut out pieces etc........

The pattern is McCalls M6102 size 8 (adult sizes) i did take out 2 cms in the front panel and shortened at the 2 spots marked on the pattern waist and a little lower.........but it fits pretty well and she can slide it over her head really easy..........she loves the colours.......the colours are a little funny here the background colour is a bright lime greeen and the 2 dot colours are a bit more blue grey.........

perfect for hot summer days.........

And there has been lots of swimming in the pool.......

Hope your having a nice time in between Christmas and New Year.......

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

Chookyblue

emergency skirt........

Today sports at school is "world cup rugby day".........all the kids have been designated a country from the world cup...........Fairy Girl is Russia and has to wear red and white (since we don't have a russian outfit).............well since she didn't have a red or white skirt I had to whip one up last night..............the things mothers do............

Fairy Girl ratted thru the fabrics and found this red and white print with little apples............think I got it from Spotlight last year........cute with white leggings and a red top...........

Those in the Secret Santa Christmas Swap - the email has gone out so check your inbox.............

welcome to the swap for 2011...........

off to work...........have a great day

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

Chookyblue

another dress.........

We had some friends out yesterday and someone had a birthday.............so

we had to have a present...............she picked out some fabric and I made

up this dress..........

.......Sort of combined effort from this top and this

dress...........still not quite right but getting closer to what i

want.............the wider binding wasn't so good around the top as it was a

but too wide..............maybe by the fourth one I will be able to get what

I want between the 2 patterns.

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

Chookyblue

Fairy Girls top..........

I know I hope your sitting down...............2 starts and finishes in 2 days...........wonders will never cease.....I finished this one last night......but I couldn't show you til now as I had to wait for the model to wake up..............looks much better on Fairy Girl then a coat hanger..........

McCalls pattern 5419. Top A ............this one is lovely..............much more space around the body.......

.....the 12mm binding was a challenge for the straps..............I had to keep a constant pressure feeding it thru as the machine wanted to eat it a few times.................so fiddly...........and I used tiny applique pins to hold it down which was easier then then big ones.............I do like the shoulder straps on the other one though then the ties on this one so may use this pattern and do the shoulders the other style like the dress in the last post............

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

Chookyblue

Fairy Girl's blue dress...........

See you know how Maree was saying about throwing things out.........what if you need them??????

....don't throw them out Maree.........you'll need it.......

......well panic hit yesterday arvo did I have any binding when I got into the groove and wanted to whip this one up..........searching high and low thinking I had some binding somewhere finally into stuff I have had for a millions years I found some lovely white binding.........just what I needed..........probably brought it 20 years ago but we won't go there..............

Fairy Girl loves this one.........

This pattern is Burda Kids 9544 dress C......

......it is quite slim fitting and was supposed to be made of jersey (read that after I had cut the other one out).....I have used a poly cotton........worked fine but Fairy Girl is a stick too.........

I have brought several patterns over the last few months and didn't realise I have a couple quite similar so I am in the process of whipping up a top.............using another pattern....

....do I have some more binding?????

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

Chookyblue

new skirt............

Whipping up a few skirts and this one is for fairy girl...........

Take Care til next time..............
Chookyblue

PJ pants...........

My first WIP's finished for May and Kris Challenge......started these a
couple of months ago.......some PJ pants for Fairy Girl...........

.........take care til next time.............
.......Chookyblue..........

Skirt and bag.......

This is the skirt and bag I made for a little visitor last weekend.........she loved it..........

more skirt sewing............

Here is a skirt I found I had sort of started for someone - who knows who - it was a while ago and I know it was not for me......check out that waist.............one of my visitors was the lucky receiver of this skirt..........

another Xmas present finished.......this is for another of my nieces - another house on the hill twirly skirt this one I put a ruffled trim on the bottom and used ribbon for the tie........

is has been so nice to have Tutti Frutti visiting with some others...........and we have got to try out her ruffler foot for her new machine.........I have GOT to get one of those - so quick and easy............we have got some good sewing done.........tutti frutti has made 2 dresses and one skirt and decorated a couple of singlets...........so nice to have someone to sew with .........

here is the rocky road I made............not much left now - so quick and easy to make and everyone loves it..........

and as I was doing a little check in blogland this morning I went from this blog in sweltering heat to this one with snow pic............so weird........but that is the international part I love.............catch you all later.............

Happy New Year........

Made this skirt for a niece..........might applique something to the singlet will see what happens............

Happy New Year...............here is some of the food we gorged on last night..............OMG we had so much food............some salads, sweet chilli prawns, salt and pepper squid, fish peices, chicken kebabs and the list goes on...........then topped it off with rocky road when we couldn't fit anything else in..........what a beautiful night just had to share it with the mozzies..........the music up loud (I have no neighbours to annoy)

I have found this new blog..............Christine started her blog on the 28th............you should see how much she has posted so far and some fantastic stuff.........

-----take care and look forward to catching up with you in 2008-------

Strawberries for Fairy Girl.......

Look what i whipped up today............got this material from spotlight yesterday.........found the cool red check elastic ribbon also and thought this would be great for the straps..........Fairy Girl loves it...........
............blogger is not sending comments thru today so not sure what is happening............people are leaving them but they are not coming thru to my email..........
I will post the shopping later I was to excited about making the dress
.............take care..........