BH mystery Rhododendron Trail

 While away I also did a little bit on my BH mystery. Not much but a little.

But first I actually decided to give my machine a bit of a clean. Look at that felt. Yes, it does sew a bit quieter now..

Here I am sewing the extra line to now be able to cut between the 2 lines which will create a pinwheel block. I need heaps of them.

Here they are. All sewn, cut and being pressed open.

Now they are all trimmed for the next step. This will happen at retreat soon.

As some had already left retreat I was up earlier than normal for a group photo on pack up day.

I then went back to bed for a short while before I headed off for a 4 1/2 hour drive to my first nights rest stop on my journey home.

Thanks Chooky for this great time. I will surely be trying to get there next year.

It’s the end of January. Where has the month gone.

 This month has been hot. The car temperature got to 50 deg Celsius. Did I say it’s been hot. I really haven’t been in the mood for sewing, crafting, blogging or anything really. I’m not sure what is going on with blogger but I now find I cannot comment on half the blogs I follow. I go from one to the next comment then the next one won’t allow me to. So please know I am reading them but cannot leave a comment. Work has been extremely busy. So thank you Chooky for the chance to have a few short zooms.

While on Zoom I also started knitting another teabag scarf. Photos on another post to come. But for sewing I made another zippered placemat. It went together very quickly. I have started another one for a demonstration/tutorial I am doing at quilt group. 

I am using all the scraps from left over from a mystery quilt I made.

Having fun sewing them altogether.

Zip step 1

Zip step 2

The zip is in

The top is all together

I’m ready for quilting

My red table scraps don’t meet the criteria with the snowmen but they are red.

https://thejoyfulquilter.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-2022-table-scraps-challenge.html

Sewing along with Angela and my red scraps 

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2022/01/scraphappy-saturday-week-5-wrapping-up.html

And yes, you were right Deana. This new placemat will be a gift for a friends birthday soon as she really loved mine when I showed her. She also goes on a lot of picnics so it will be used a lot.

I have had the grandsons for overnight where we had pancakes and icecream for breakfast. Their dad thought I was crazy. They boys loved it. We have also celebrated the youngest grandsons 11th birthday. It was fun. Sorry . No photos of that..

I idi a little sewing job for a friend and sewed some patches on his leather jacket. I said a bottle of wine would be a nice Thank you gesture. Well, he got the message and gave me 3 dozen bottles. I think I owe him a huge thank you.

Also had a great all day sew at our quilt group. I worked some more on Bonnie Hunters RT mystery. I have not got very far. I also made an accordion purse but it is not completely finished. The girls on zoom got to see where I was up to.

My daughter has been a bit sad after hearing news of a friends decline in health. Friends have started a go fund me page as they need help to make what’s left of her life a little easier. A lovely 40 year old with a loving husband and very young son has to deal with the terrible disease, Alzheimers. I had one completed charity quilt left to donate and my daughter wanted to pass it on for comfort and later on as a memory of her. My beautiful scrappy BUTTERFLIES. So tonight I sewed on the label and it’s ready to be delivered.

Please help out if you can.                  https://gofund.me/426383ff

Look at the perfect matched label.

Well I haven’t been able to find a finished photo so must get one before it gets sent of to its new home.

If you have reached the bottom of this post… Thankyou.

I have not felt like doing a post for a while so it is all in one. If you see my side bar the last 2 years I have not been up to where I normally was. Is this due to covid.

Looking forward to February 

A special dinner out - then some sewing

 Hubby and I have wanted to try this restaurant for quite a while now. We finally went. 

Hubby started with a crab and watermelon entree 

And I had a crab dish.. delicious

We enjoyed wine, mains and desert.

A yummy crème caramel for hubby and a pav, choc dish for me.

Even though it wasn’t cheap it was a very special evening.

A taxi was called, the door was opened and off home we went.

A little bit of sewing.

Here is what I made to send to Maria. It was a fun little swap. We all like to get happy mail.

I know Maria likes going away in her caravan so this made me smile.

I have used this very large tea towel.

Many years ago I worked  at a school camp and we had these tea towels. The washed up so nice and dried the dishes so good that the staff could buy some. I still have some in the cupboard and thought I’d share one  with you.

It looks great on my oven. Hope it does on yours Maria.

And now I have started Bonnie Hunters Rhododendron Trail