All gone.......data and quilts.

100% of our data has been used up so everything is going really slowly.  I am receiving emails on my laptop by using my iphone as a hotspot.  Of course this happens just as we start to get lots of emails requesting quilts on Aussie Heroes!  Ahhhh the curve balls life can throw at you -could be worse so I am not really complaining!

Luckily I uploaded these photos today before the data ran out.  My lovely hubby headed to Canberra for a meeting today and took with him this stylish bag seen here wrapped with duct tape - hee hee - containing all the quilts that the Gumnuts have made for the Family of Five.   He handed them over to Posie so that she can hand them on when the time is right.  That is Posie's cute daughter (one of her four lovely children).

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And Christine sent me this photo today of a quilt she quilted for the Family of Five as well.  The top ws donated by my friend Sandy from VIC and i asked Christine to quilt it and she has done a lovely job!  

So neat and I love the bright thread!

That is it for me - definitely no post tomorrow night - too hard to upload photos.  if you don't get any emails from me don't fret.  I will be back Wednesday sometime.  I will have plenty to show you.  I worked on my 1930's baby quilt today and also quilted one of Tarja's quilts.  Will save all the photos for you on Wednesday!  And that is a Gumnuts day as well as being ANZAC Day so plenty to show I am sure.

Till next time...............happy stitching!

99% but still here....just

Hopefully just sneaking this one in before the internet limit clicks over.  What happens when we reach our limit is that we just slllllloooooowwwww rrriiiiggghhhhttt    dddddoooowwwwnnnnnn.  It is so painfully slow that I can't upload photos etc.  It is only a couple of days so I will just take the days off but I think I can just manage to sneak this one in.

Today I managed to get the borders on to my D9P quilt.  

 The border fabric looks way better up close and in real life.  It has all the colours from the blocks and I think it balances out the black fabric in the blocks!

I also managed to start the sewing on the baby quilt I am going to make from some 30's fabrics.  I sewed all the nine patch squares into their rows of threes and then while hubby and I watched "The Amazing Race" I pinned all the threes together into blocks and I will sew them tomorrow.

Now here is something that only happens in Australia.  Our house backs on to a 40 hectare parcel of state forest.  It is full of gum trees.  Last night, just before bedtime I could here something growling strangely outside my sewing room window - it sounded really close. AND it sounded like someone trying over and over again to start a chain saw without success.   Now if I lived in Canada like Cathy I might have been more concerned but we don't have brown or black bears or coyotes or mountain lions.  The scariest things we have are snakes and spiders(plenty of those) but they don't growl!  So, of course, I called for my husband to come, gave him a teeny torch (well it was all I had handy at the time) and asked him to go and check it out.  He barely hesitated (well he did ask once "why me?" and I said "coz you are the man!") and headed out the door.    He shone his teeny torch light around and finally found what it was - a koala!  and no, for the non- Aussies they are not a type of bear!  Apparently it was a grumpy koala in next door's tree - probably been chased there as it was sitting in an exotic tree and koala's would not climb that sort of tree other than to hide.  They only eat eucalyptus and then only certain types.  Sadly, no sign of him today.  He probably got down and relocated to a better tasting tree at some point during the night.  So, there you go, you won't be reading that sort of riveting story on just anyone's blog now will you!

And now I am off to bed.  I expect when I wake in the morning my internet will be VERY   SLOOOOOOWWWWW.  I will be back on Wednesday if not before!  

Till then happy stitching!

98%

Hmm, the next few days are going to be interesting - we are now up to 98% of our 500GB gone and no more data till Tuesday night - it is now Saturday morning.  One son has 6 assignments to complete.  No idea how much internet he will need for that but not my problem.  He was warned on Monday to get them done before it was all used up.....and he still managed to go for a sleepover for two days and out to a party last night....

So, I may see you tonight or tomorrow night, or I may not, but I will be back on Wednesday at least, and hopefully with lots to show you.  Thank goodness my hubby is home for the weekend and I don't have to weather the internet dieting teens on my own.  Good heavens!  What will they do?

Till next time................happy stitching!

More bright ideas!

I had a bit more time to play with this brights today and managed to get two borders on this quilt.  I still need to add one more final border to bring the quilt up to the right size.  Hopefully that will happen on Sunday.

I also managed to cut out some squares for a similar quilt, this one a 1930's baby quilt for a very special little baby I heard about today.  More on that another day.  I have had this bundle of fat quarters for at least a couple of years.

 Time these pretty colours saw the light of day don't you think?

 And just before I finish, I thought I would show you what is supposed to be MY leather chair and ottoman.    What?  You can't see it?  It is under all those quilts and cushions and the DOG.  That is Maisy snuggled on the back of it.  Usually there are two dogs on it; Snickers on the blue cushion!

 I need all the quilts and cushions protecting it so that the dogs don't scratch the living daylights out of the chair with their nails.  I would like to keep them off it but I can't see them all the time and in the end decided that this was my only option.

It is not like I have much time for sitting in it really, except for when I am sick, which thankfully, is not all that often!

Lucy they are so cute!

Till next time...................happy stitching!

I Love Bright!

And tonight I decided to go for broke and stitch a little fun!    Six big nine patches made from nine 6" squares, then cut them into disappearing nine patches and sew them back together.  Love working with these fun colours.  Next decision is to choose border fabric.  I need about 6 inches on all sides.

This quilt is only small - so far 29" by 42".  Add a 6" border and it will be about 41" by 54" and that will make it a nice lap size quilt for a child.  I am off to audition border fabrics and maybe even find a backing!

I have to sew borders and piece a backing for an AHQ project tomorrow so hopefully I can do this one while I am in the bordering mood!

Till next time..............happy stitching!

No sewing to show you today.  I had two ladies here for an AHQ sewing day and then tonight I went out for dinner with the sisterhood.  Both things were lots of fun but I promised not to duplicate all the AHQ sewing on this blog so, instead, I thought I would show you what Tarja gave us all. We have a bit of a loose tradition that if one of us goes away somewhere we find something small to bring back for the others.  Tarja and her family went to Coffs Harbour for the Easter break.  Coffs is famous for the Big Banana

and therefore it was a no-brainer where to go to buy something for us!

 Of course we recevied the obliglatory fridge magnet

 and also...........wait for it ................banana SOAP!  And yes it smells like bananas!

What fun! Thanks Tarja!

We had a great dinner, lots of laughs and came home with banana soap!  Love it!

Till next time................happy stitching!

A Fair Dinkum Finish!

Last Friday my friend, Tarja, and her gorgeous daughter Jessica, helped me to layer this quilt and yesterday I managed to quilt it.   Today I finished the binding and this afternoon I posted it off to the lovely Captain that requested a quilt for the wall in his office area today.

 It is only quilted simply, diagonally on the nine patches and a simple grid over the tea towel.

I used a thread as close to the background colour of the tea towel to quilt it as I really didn't wantt o compete with the picture.

  Here it is all packed and ready to go.  I asked the Captain if there was something I could add to the box - is there something that he particularly misses whilst over there and he asked for Chupa Chups - for the others he says..........of course I believe him!   These are wedged in so tightly that they should still be in place when they arrive.  I would love to see the look on his face when he opens this box!

 I cleared out some space on my kitchen shelves today and set my new mug/bowls up with their mates where I can see them and, more importantly, use them every day.  Love them.

Might not post tomorrow - AHQ sewing day followed by a dinner out with the Sisterhood.  

I promise I will be back with some more Cherry Red sewing the next day if not tomorrow!

The boys seem to have restrained their data usage so we just might make it to the end of the month..........

Till next time.............happy stitching!