Bonnie Hunter - mysteries. En Provence & Frolic

 Over the past lot of years I have followed along with Bonnie Hunters yearly mysteries. Bonnie https://quiltville.blogspot.com/ releases them at Thanksgiving and they go through to NewYears. Bonnie releases clues weekly with lots of  instructions and different cutting instructions for various methods. I have been following her for many years. I have just recently had 2 of my mysteries quilted byJudy at.. http://newsfromjude.blogspot.com/ . They have both been quilted with an edge to edge pattern and I am extremely happy with them.

En Provence

Frolic

Since I have been home I have trimmed these quilts ready for the binding. I have cut the bindings ready for my next sewing session.

Frolic being trimmed

I love fabric with glitter. Look at this blue fabric. Look at it sparkle.

Can you see the edge to edge quilted design.

Sorry Judy I cant remember the design name. But I am very happy with the open, comfy, cuddly look and feel.

En Provence being trimmed

Look at the quilting design. It is just perfect for what I wanted.

This purple paisley has a bit of glitter too.

Quilts are trimmed, binding and hanging sleeve is cut, now all is needed is for me to attach the binding and hanging sleeve. Then a label and hand stitch everything down.

Thankyou Judy for a wonderful job with quilting.

http://newsfromjude.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Judy delivering them to me at Scrub stitching.

Scrub Stitching is a yearly Australian retreat organised by Chooky in outback NSW.

This year we were lucky enough to have a total of 35 women and 6 husbands all join up at a beautiful spot, Camp Cypress,   in a town called Baradine, NSW. http://www.campcypress.com/

Chooky has done a wonderful job over the years with online swaps, SAL’s and organising these yearly retreats. She does it because she loves it. She also introduced zoom sessions, which are now held mostly once a month, sometimes sooner. There is no set time. An email is sent out and if you are available you join in. But you must have a blog. 

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2023/04/scrub-stitchin-why-do-i-do-it.html

Anyway, this year we had a retreat that was extra special as we had 11 bloggers join us from.

Gail… https://gailhickamfines.blogspot.com/ USA 

Chris … https://holycowchris.blogspot.com/ CANADA

Deana & Tracy … http://dreamworthyquilts.blogspot.com/ USA

Sylvia …https://flickenstichlerei.blogspot.com/ GERMANY

Raewyn…http://stitchingfarmgirl.blogspot.com/ NZ

Lou … https://loulee1.blogspot.com/ NZ 

These were the internationals that made the trip down under but we had ,30 others that travelled/drove up to 15 hours to get to Baradine. We also had 6 husbands join this year and they went sight seeing in the area while we sewed away until it was late in the night.

We had some from South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and NSW. 

So what I really want to say, wherever you are in the world there is always someone out the to connect with. Wether it be close or far there are ways to keep inspired and connected. 

Our group of bloggers owe this to the wonderful blogger/organiser CHOOKYBLUE

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2023/04/scrub-stitchin-why-do-i-do-it.html

This is the group that Chooky brought together this year in Baradine 2023.

Thankyou you Chooky and everyone that made this retreat so special.

Scrub Stitchin has come to an end

 It is now time to travel home. We headed back to Parkes to settle in for the night. We walked into town to a Chinese restaurant. Mmmmm I was hungry.

Look at this for a meal. Sizzling Mongolian Beef and Sizzling Satay Prawns. Delicious.

It was such a big serve that we took home half of our order. That’s our dinner for the next night.

We stopped at Hay for the night.

We were walking to the cafe for brunch and saw this in the garden of a home we were passing. Very cute.

We walked passed another silo. These are just amazing.

We had the best scrambled eggs and bacon on sourdough at the Convent for brunch. A very good place to stop. Even the police recommend the omelettes.

Then down the Main Street of Hay.

After going back to the bus for a rest we went over to the nearby pub for a quick tea. We had burgers.  The special of the day. We were in and out in a very short time and back to the bus by 6.45 pm.

There was a fun display of art. It made us laugh.

I love this emu made out of scrap metal.

Time to go back to the bus. Pack some stuff up. Get some sleep ready for the trip home the next day.

We have had the best 2 weeks away. A real holiday. Thoroughly enjoyed.

WOW Scrub Stitchin Quilt Show n Tell

  WOW. How amazing was this array of show n tell.

We could have set up a quilt show and invited the town. There was so much to display. It took about 2 hours to go through and show. Amazing pieces of work.

I have already showed the Moda Love quilts.

Enjoy these pieces of work. 

Here is a Trail Mix quilt inspired by the one Deana had made.

And here are the Churn Dash quilts again.

A Twister quilt completed from last years project.

This was a kit bought at last years retreat. Top completed now ready for quilting.

My Bonnie Hunter En Provence 2017 Mystery.

Quilted by Judy. http://newsfromjude.blogspot.com/

My Frolic quilt by Bonnie Hunter. 2019 Mystery. 

Also quilted by Judy. http://newsfromjude.blogspot.com/

Here was a twister quilt finished from last years retreat Project.

This quilt was made of denim and is extremely heavy. This was the back.

And the front. It didn’t have any wadding it. It really didn’t need it either. 

Raewyn came over from NZ in 2019 and this is what Sue and her created from their memories. Postcards of memories. Lovely.

Deana precut 6 projects. 3 for her and 3 for her sister, Tracy. This was their first finish.

Chris from Canada was working on her EPP Lucy Boston.

Raelene’s fiddle muffs. These are knitted and a great idea for people with dementia.

The group photo of people that brought their Churn Dash quilts to show. This was a SAL Chooky had going last year..