Friendship Tags

I really enjoyed making these tags, they were designed by Leanne May for a wonderful " Stitchers Dream Day Out" that I went to with great craft friends last September, we all had such a terrific time and its nice to have finished my project so soon.

I'm still a busy little bee

Another little project finished , I'm certainly on a roll. These cuties are a "Cat and the Fiddle" pattern , they were fun to make, never thought I would be doing prim stuff but I really like these.

PS.... Forgot to say that my little girls still need shoes but I'm having trouble finding just the right thing so will edit the piccie when I can get some.

Busy busy busy

Well here is another project done I'm very happy to say, I have had the stitchery done for a while but couldn't find the right frame. This is a "Candlelight Creations" pattern by Leanne May.

My Beautiful Corinne

" Gee Nan...... just 1 piccie...."
Nannnnnn I said 1 piccie.......................

This is my g/daughter Corinne ready to go to her year 10 semi-formal and of course its absolutely necessary to see Nan before she goes. Wow this makes me feel old but its lovely to see her growing into a wonderful young lady although wearing a dress is not her favourite attire.

Stitchers Dream Day Out 2007

Tereasa (left) Joy ( behind her) and Noela ( hiding in ballons)

Its taken me a bit of time to get around to sharing the piccies of the great stitchers day we went to on 22nd September at Toowoomba, a slightly overcast day but everyone still had a terrific time. Natalie Bird, Leanne May, Rosalie Quinlan and Lynette Anderson certainly designed lovely projects for us and hopefully I will soon get 1 or 2 finished. Theres nothing more enjoyable than spending the day stitching with friends, having a great lunch without a care in the world.

New Girls

"Gracie" a Rosalie Quinlan pattern.

"Pinkeeper" by Country Keepsakes. ( over did the cheeks on the
one on the right, don't laugh)

I have been a bit quiet in the blogging world but busy in craft world.

Making dolls has been keeping me on the go, "Gracie" ... pattern by Rosalie Quinlan... is for my daughter Heather, I've had the fabric for quite some time but finally got to it, another project off the "to do list", also made 2 Pinkeeper's... pattern by Country Keepsakes and a secret santa doll for the prim treasures group and one for myself but can't show piccies yet cause then my partner would know so you will have to wait. Oh yes forgot the JQ&S group's secret santa pressie too so I have been very busy just not a lot of piccies to show at the moment.

2 more projects done...... phew

Well I haven't been blogging very much lately but I'm pleased to say I have finished 2 projects from my "To do list 2007" the first is the Bronwyn Hayes table quilt " Tea with Veronica" and the second is a Mum's Moment quilt " Christmas belles " so now I can get on with my secret santa gifts for Prim Treasures group and the Jimboomba Quilters and Stitchers group. I don't have anything else newsy so I'd better get off the putor and get stitching.

I have been tagged,mmmmmmm

Mmmmmm tagged hey, now what to write...8 things but I'm not very interesting really but here goes......
I have been tagged by the lovely Sarah from Prim Treasures Friendship Club- 8 random things about me.RULES - Post rules before giving the facts - Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves - People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules - At the end of the your blog you need to tag eight people and list their names - Leave them a comment on their blog, telling them they have been tagged and not to forget to read your blog.

1. I love taking time for me ... soaking feet with candle burning and music playing.
2. Hate getting older, I am not doing it gracefully.
3. Don't like cats, yukko.
4. Love being a Nan its great fun.
5. I also have a weekness for chocolate.
6. I find grocery shopping boring.
7. I'm in a tenpin bowling league every wednesday.
8. I'm definately not a morning person but like staying up late.

Holy dooly that was hard its not easy trying to think of stuff like that.lol

All my friends seem to have been tagged already but these girls might join in....

Tereasa .. Teresa ..

Secret Santa pressies

These are the pressies I received at our Christmas in July swap, Cate made these for me and they are really great, just love 2 christmas days in a year.

Guess thats it for now.

Helen

Prim Treasures Swap

I have been very slack in my blog lately but I'm here to fix that.

These are the piccies of the beautiful gifts made for me by Jan, a member of our Secret Santa Swap, as you can see I was a very lucky girl and I'm making good use of all the pressies.... well the tree ornie will have to wait for christmas but I do have it hanging from a shelf and who cares if its not christmas.... not me thats for sure.

The bag is such a good size and great colours, you did a great job Jan thanks so much, I could go on and on but the piccies tell it all.

Helen

My big exciting news.....

Wow this is so exciting..... I went to pick up my quilt from the Mt. Gravatt Show today so there I was having a look at the quilts and on my quilt was a blue ribbon and a great rosette, the ladies were waiting for me to show up to see the results, getting first prize for this section was great but to get "small quilt champion" and "best of show" was certainly more than I had hoped for.

I received a $50 voucher at Webster & Wood hairdressers for the first prize and Best of Show was a $100 voucher for a service on a sewing machine, $20 off a facial and a $20 voucher at sewing world.

Took a piccie at the show of the quilt and the other at home.

Our New Group

The Jimboomba Quilters and Stitchers Group began on the 4th June after the closure of our local craft shop and is now going very well with appox 35 members already and each week we about 20 girls attend which is great. We celebrated our first Christmas in July last monday and it was terrific, we had started a secret santa swap at the beginning of the year (whilst still at the craft shop) with 12 girls so we opened our gifts at our party, it was so much fun. I started a new swap for the next part of the year and we now have 20 girls involved so hope it goes well. Everyone brought a plate of food for the day so we eating took up most of the day as well as much laughing and chatting.... of course. As the piccies show a great was day had by all, I had to play santa which was a bit embarassing but whats a christmas party without santa.
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My Little Secret.......

Gosh its been a while since I have had anything newsworthy to tell but I do now.

I have entered my quilt (piccie below this post) "Throught the Garden Gate" in the Mt. Gravatt Show this weekend, I won't be going to the show until sunday afternoon to pick the quilt up so I"ll get to see all the quilts then and maybe have more news to tell.

Through the Garden Gate BOM

Yahoooooo finished ...... another project from the " to do list", now to push on with other things.

Christmas Belles progress report.

Block 8.





Block 12.




I have joined blocks 1 through to 8 together and it seems to be coming along quite well. The piccie isn't very good but I was in a hurry and couldn't be bothered hanging it up so this will have to do for the moment.

A weekend with June (g/daughter)

June and I had a busy long weekend together, on Saturday morning we went to our local craft shop to buy fabric for a project we were going to make, then we baked a chocolate cake for my friend .... Jenny .... who was visiting on Sunday. Monday we visited Liz and her boys... Jake, Clayton ( my daughter, Junes Aunt) we had a lovely day.

Cleaning up after cooking.

Busy tracing and cutting out the doll.

Having a break......watching "Happy Feet"

This is a pattern from " Patchwork and Stitching" magazine ..."Rosemarie Jane" by Maria Lewty.



Here she is finished.

We made this doll together, June embroidered the cushion and pants, also machine sewing of the pants , stuffing the body and traced all pattern pieces with templates onto fabric ...... all for the very first time and she is only 9 years old. I'm very proud of her and I know " Rosie " will be happy living in June's bedroom.

We had heaps of fun over the weekend.

Dotty Dancer

At last she is finished, a " Country Keepsakes " pattern by Annie Smith called Dotty Dancer.


I love her dolls they are great fun to make and with all the laughter we have at dolly club adds to the pleasure of doll making.

Close up piccie of Gav's Quilt

This a better piccie of Gav's quilt for you to see, I 'm so pleased with it and so is he which is even better.

Family get together for birthdays

We had a great day today, all the family together for Corinne's ( g/daughter ) 15th birthday yesterday and Gavan's ( hubbie) 65th birthday tomorrow. Here are a few piccies of Gavan's bedroom, before and after, his pressie was a group thing this year, a new venetian blind.... curtains... bedspread... light fitting, a quilt with piccies of his model planes on it, he was off flying his planes and was ready for him when he arrived home but of course he came home early and was promptly told to stay outside, naturally everything wasn't ready but did look great in the end , he was surprised and happy which was terrific. Corinne received a new camera.... money which she loved.... clothes so she also was surprised and happy.

Christmas Belles

These are blocks 5 & 9 of the Christmas Belles quilt, this is the only project that I'm up to date with at the moment, mind you only just. Still plodding away on the "Vintage Valentines" blocks not sure how long it will take me to catch up with the other girls but I'm trying ( yes I know, very trying lol). Oh well back to the drawing board or should I say stitching couch to do a little more of the VV quilt.