Coast Trip #2

While away we caught up with friends for the day at Nowra. Jen and I visited the Jindyandy Mill Scrapbooking shop while the boys and kids played mini golf. We got together for lunch at the Plunkett Street park. We then visited Hanging Rock and walked along the river bank and through the rocks on Ben's Walk.

After the walk the kids were so lucky to be offered a motorcycle ride by this lovely biker. The kids had so much fun zooming around the look out on the back of a Yamaha!


We also went swimming at Wairo Beach at the end of Lake Tabourie and just near Crampton Island. Such a beautiful spot :)

'Braided Scraps' Quilt #2

An update on my most gorgeous quilt which is using Moda fabric Blush range. This braided quilt is just stunning. I am just so pleased with how it is coming along.

I have put all four braids together and trimmed them to the same size.





I've also added the sashing along all the sides and top and bottom.

The next step is to order in some more fabric for the binding and to finish off a extra patch worked sashing. This will make the quilt a full queen size.

It was quite tricky to trim the braids as they kept getting all wonky. I suspect it is something to do with the bias of the fabric. So you can see where I used a chalk pencil, to pencil in the centre line of each braid. Was worried I'd cut them all wrong!




I've also added a photo of my beautiful girl. She has been busy crafting too. She received heaps of crafty things for her birthday recently and she has been slowly working through them all.

Puppy Dog Ears

Considering he isn't into writing, cutting or craft he is slowly starting to get into it. Clever little guy decided to make puppy dog ears.

He still loves his blankie. Am wondering when he'll give it up!

Sashico Owls

First panel in a series of three sashico owls.

Here are my owls which were supposed to be a super quick project that got seriously interrupted. Life, moving house and a back injury will do that I guess.

But feeling good and starting to make progress again. I've finished all the white stitching in this panel and am now completing the leaves using navy thread.

Owls

This year I've lucky enough to be a parent helper in a Guiding unit with older girls, working with a lovely friend who is the leader.

Awhile back we made some owls during a camp. They are so cute, I figured they were worth sharing. Made using felt and hand sewing. A combo of blanket and straight stitching. They are easily made, as all the girls in the unit were able to successfully produce an owl each.

New Desk

I've been lucky enough to be given this gorgeous roll top desk from my friend Greg. He's in the process of decluttering and kindly offered us this desk.

Husband Deluxe last weekend mentioned that he was on the hunt for a small desk for me to store my laptop and assorted teaching bits and pieces in. Greg flipped out his phone and said he wanted to find a good home for his desk from his childhood... :-)

Husband Deluxe being completely fuckawesome has already made some minor adjustments to increase the desks usability.

He drilled a small hole at the back to feed the laptop cable through and raised the drawers so that my legs fit properly.

Such a fabulous husband and gorgeous friend. I am grateful for both!

Box Construction!

String Bean came home with this wonderful creation today. I assumed incorrectly that it was a Robot. No it is actually a model of herself.

So very cool. She must have spent a substantial amount of time on this project. I love how beautifully colour coordinated the whole thing is.

I also love the pipe cleaner smile. Always happy, that's my girl.

Telly Quilt

String Bean's telly quilt.

I decided to make the kids some small lap quilts to use on cold winter mornings when they get up early to watch TV. Well String Bean's has ended up becoming nearly a single bed sized quilt! Not a lap quilt at all really.

Her quilt ended up being so big because the focal point was a series of 7 batik squares of gorgeous butterflies. To match in with her room decor of course.

I used a variety of stunning Japanese fabrics. All using the same tonal palette and incorporating a black back ground. The only exceptions were the strips used to boarder the main blocks. I chose a batik though.

Back of the quilt: strip quilting.

This quilt is fully reversible with a 'strip quilting' back. I had it machine quilted by the very talented Fran from Willow Patch Quilting. So finished at long last, argh I hate doing the binding & it always takes far longer than it should. Now off to start Fuzzy's telly quilt.

A Home for a Gnome

Well the gnomes that Nanny Sue got the kids at Floriade have been a huge hit. They both have names: String Bean's is called Lucky & Fuzzy Wuzzy named his Sneezy.












The two gnomes get moved around the front garden regularly and on the weekend String Bean decided to make a home for the gnomes. Fuzzy Wuzzy's ended up under a shrub "because he likes the dark". But Lucky ended up under one of our Rhododendrons. She carefully placed fallen camellia blooms in the branches, collected a lemon off the tree (in case he got hungry) and collected other bits and pieces from the fairy garden to make his home pretty.

So cute!

Blanket Stitched Animals

Dragon & Cow.

I've had these guys cut out and floating around for awhile now. So tonight, after Fuzzy Wuzzy, played with the stuffing for the 100th time I finally got round to starting them. They didn't take long at all and look so cute. String Bean insisted on her cow having a smile :-)