A special happy birthday for Colleen

 Another friend of mine celebrated a special birthday.

We had a surprise lunch for her at our local pub.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLLEEN

The tables were beautifully set without going overboard.

As I am a bit taller than her I thought I would sit down.

Can you tell she likes purple.

Friends from the Sunraysia Patchwork Friends (SPF)

And I gave her my Sashiko cloth I have been stitching.

She loved it.

A wonderful surprise and a little bit of knitting.

 I turned up at my quilt group and lovely Colleen gave me 2 bags of wonderful surprises filled with 50 cute little pouches/boxes. She said I could use them any way I like....

THANK YOU COLLEEN. I am so appreciative of your generosity. I will put them to good use.

Some times you need a break from sewing. I decided to do a little bit of knitting...

We are having a trade table at the end of the year at our QUILTS IN THE GARDEN day. I thought I’d teach my friend how to make them and try our luck.

First we start with threading a few hundred beads on to the cotton.

Then we knit them

And we knit some more

And hopefully we can get a few of these made

Beautiful BEADED SCISSOR KEEPS...

Tassie friends

While on our NEEDLEWORK CRUISE we met 2 very lovely ladies, Ruth & Colleen.

We have become friends and hope to visit each other in the future. They are both very talented and did beautiful work in their classes.

Ruth made a beautiful stitched sewing box lid.

Colleen did a stunning ladybug design on a felted babies jacket & bootee set.

Her other 2 classes were a stunning felted scarf & a beaded button.

Well done girls.

Can't wait to catch up again for another laugh or two.