THE BUBBLE TREE IS DONE....

Our group has finished the bubble tree quilt. We all worked on it and chose to hand it over to the church where we sew on a Monday. They were taken by surprise and were very happy with it. All they need to do now is find a special place to hang it. We really do appreciate how lucky we are to have this space to meet every week. We are a very supportive group of friends that have needed each other. Especially this year.....
Let's hope next year is better..

My friends and I this week

It is so good to have a group of friends that are always there for each other. That's what my Monday group is. We have all been through so much and especially very recently.

4 deaths, parents hospitalised and operations happening to just name a few. There have been many things but we get together each week for some tears, fun, laughter, stories and of course, some sewing. Thank you to my friends for their wonderful support......

Here we are hard at work.

Here is Rhonda hard at work machine quilting this scrap crazy quilt.
It is for a Xmas present.
 But it needs to be finished this week as she is going in for an operation on Friday.
 I dropped in to see her and the binding is nearly all sewn on..

Look at the mess. I have convinced my friends at this group to bring in their scraps. No matter how small and ugly. So every week they add to this bag. They have helped me make many quilts out of it. At first they thought I was crazy but now they have even made quilts themselves at home. They cannot believe what can be done out of what we would normally throw away. PROGRESS.

Look at all these scraps.

Barb finishing a binding on her Pirate quilt for a Xmas present

Joy working away, cutting and sewing together scraps..

 These will be put into an AUSSIE HERO QUILT

Joy battling with crumbs & scraps...

I have a really good friend that has moved interstate. She was working on a grandmas flower garden hexagon quilt... http://jobutterfield.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/goodnight-irene-flimsy.html.
Well, these were some of the left over hexagons.
The clever ladies from my Monday group designed this up out of the pieces. A member that was has moved away is working on it. She has been quilting it and is nearly finished...

Di's hexagons and Jill's design, applique and quilting.

Jill quilting away

 And then there is the BUBBLE TREE. Remember I started this last year for RSC... Well I didn't get too much done and our group wanted to make a wall hanging for the church we meet in.
So others have been working on it too and now the binding is being stitched.
Isn't it looking great.... Well done girls...

Church of Christ BUBBLE TREE 

And don't forget to sign up with Wendy for FNSI
http://sugarlane-designs.com/2015/11/november-friday-night-sew-sign-ups.html

Scrappy Wonky Stars

This month over at Angela's at Soscrappy there is  SCRAP HAPPY SATURDAY going on. I have sat down and made 4 more wonky star blocks. The colour this month is RED. I need a quilt for a sweet friend of my son who just turned 21. The stars represent my son. So whenever she needs warmth she can wrap herself in this quilt and think of him... All the boys are getting the puzzle quilts, the girls will get a wonky star. I also got 2 more puzzle quilts quilted and the wonky star pieced and quilted. All have the binding attached so I can sit down on Sunday and start hand stitching it down and join in the fun with everyone over at KATHY's SLOW STITCHING SUNDAY

My blocks measure 18" square.

The quilts.
Wonky star measures 51" * 68"
Puzzle quilts measure 48" * 72"

After I got the bindings on I caught up on my RSC14 SAMPLER blocks over at Soscrappy.

The DONUT & HASHTAG block

I then realised I hadn't done my pink month for the bubble quilt. So here they are too.

I had an early start and a late night. I had trouble sleeping & it was freezing here. Instead of sitting and doing nothing I turned the heater up and put one DVD after another and sewed, sewed & sewed.

A very productive day......

A CATCH UP POST

I have been out and about. Sewing and lunching. So this is a post to catch up on what I have been doing and all the link ups I should have done.

Firstly.... On Wednesday Angela had a link up of the half year mark for for RSC 14 sampler blocks. So here are mine. Take a look at what others are doing HERE at Soscrappy

Then we had FNWF over at Gone Stitchin' with CHERYLL

Well I was very busy finishing off a few things.
I had made a couple of drainage bags for CANCER patients.
The FREE pattern was from CHERYLL here

A jelly roll race cot quilt. With heart/leaves quilting and the label is on too.

Then I finished some square bags that I made from a prize of a charm square pack, HOOPLA, from VAL'S QUILTING STUDIO.

Saturday saw me starting my red scraps over at Angela's at Soscrappy making her sampler blocks.

I also did my BUBBLE TREE blocks

And I went ahead and made my paper pieced block for Kerry for this months swap over at 

PAPER PIECERS SWAP CLUB. I decided on making WILD ZINNIAS block from Quilters Cache, Quilt blocks galore. This is a great site with many blocks and in all different sizes.

Goodbye GREEN Hello YELLOW

Over at Soscrappy each month there is a colour theme.

MAY was GREEN and JUNE is YELLOW.

It's good to add some colour to our day when all it is doing here is rain, rain & more rain.

My day was spent finishing off some projects but continuing on my Bubble Tree quilt.
Look HERE to find out more about it.

My bubbles are growing.....

HELLO YELLOW

GOODBYE GREEN

More BUBBLES

I got more bubbles done for my BUBBLE TREE done in this months colour.... PURPLE.

This is the colour Angela has chosen over at Soscrappy for the month of April.
Have a look at the great work others are doing  HERE on Scrap Happy Saturday.

Then I continued on and did some WONKY STAR blocks.

These measure 18". 

I am making a couple each month and am unsure if I am going to use 9 or 12 blocks in a quilt.

Then I went off to visit my Father in Law in hospital.My next job was to baby sit my beautiful grandsons for the night while my daughter was at a wedding. So I packed my machine and continued sewing. I made 2 jewellery rolls...

FRIDAY NIGHT WITH FRIENDS

Well, I have been busy tonight making the background 70" square of tone on tones.
I am linking up with FNWF

I have my glass of  wine

The TV with my favourite movie...

And this is what I got done.

The background with my tree attached.

I started my Bubble tree with Soscrappy and each week or month I will get the bubbles done. 

This month is purple.

So on Saturday I will do purple bubbles.

Scrappy TEALs & AQUAs

I managed to catch up on RSC14 sampler blocks.

The colour this month is teal, aqua or turquoise.

Here are my 5 teal blocks.

Have a look at who else has linked up with ANGELA at SoScrappy

I have also decided to make a quilt with a friend from my Monday group.

We will be working on our own quilt. Hopefully pushing each other along.

This is one of Emily Cier's from Seattle, Washington, USA.  patterns.

These are my blocks that I did today.......AQUA