Wow it’s nearly December. The start of Summer.

 Where did November go to.

I am now the President of our local quilt group. How did that happen?

A few committee members went to our storage shed to see what was there. There were quite a few bags and boxes of scrap and donated fabrics. 

I brought them home and started sorting.

Well the tubs are now tidied up.

We are having a charity sewing night tomorrow night so I thought we could use some up. We found some sweet flannelette and some cute kids prints. So we have decided to cut them into 6.5” squares and sew them together again making little kids quilts.

My daughter and I had a fun night out at a painting class for a fundraiser. This has been rebooked a few times due to covid. Well it’s here.

Neither of us has painted before. So we booked for a bit of fun. We started on some platters and a glass of wine.

Chose our colours and started. 

There was a group of 10 and we had so much fun.

I received this lovely tea towel in the mail from Maria - WA today. Thanks Maria, yours is in the mail too.

(I can’t show mine yet but I think it’s cute)

Look at the cute teapots

We had our grandsons for an overnight visit. It was fun. We ate a quick dinner 

then played bowling on the Wii. 

Then we had a lovely lunch supplied by our daughter and husband for my hubbies birthday. It was so good to finally catch up with lots of lockdowns due to covid

The only bit of sewing is a gift I have made for a friend. They are easy to put in the post.

ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM with Chooky, Make a Page Scrapbooking cyber weekend, lockdown, shopping and so much more

My Friday night wasn’t spent sewing with FNSI but I was thing of you all.

https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/2021/08/fnsi-here-again.html

It was spent with my grandsons on MAKEaPAGE cyber scrap weekend. Their mum hadn’t been well with an attack of vertigo so I had them for the night to give her a break.  I worked with them making their own pages. I printed off some photos for them to use,  gave them a small album each for them to keep and brought out a heap of supplies. Our first challenge was ato make our interpretation of their page layout. The boys did good.

 Well, what a time we are once again having. A ZOOM day with Chooky and a bunch of wonderful ladies is always so cheerful, relaxing, supportive and productive (most of the time). 

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2021/08/zoom-zoom-zoom.html

I started the morning, early for me, and joined in on Zoom. Yes, still in my pj’s too. I think I’m starting a trend. Just like on a real retreat. Hubby was still in bed and the grandsons were on their technology so I started off tying teabag strings. Sitting nice and quietly with a cup of coffee. The chatting always covers COVID talk. I was planning on a visit to the quilt shop and spotlight at some point in the day to buy a panel I required for a swap. The joke was I had better go when the shop opened as we never know what will happen with restrictions. So I took my time and about 10.30 showered and was ready to head off to shop.

 Then SNAP LOCKDOWN ANNOUNCED STARTING AT 1pm. Victoria is in lockdown again.  That was in 2 hours. 

Glad I was on my way to the shop. It took 15 minutes to get 3 kms. But I got there and to Spotlight too.  Bought a panel, which I cannot post here in case my swap partner is stalking and some other fabrics.  

Then off to the supermarket on the way home. Once again people thought that every shop would be closed so the queues, people, traffic and everything was a nightmare. I was in the supermarket queue for 20 minutes just to do my normal grocery shop. 

Home now, groceries un packed, lunch eaten and back to zoom.

I did something that I haven’t done on zoom time before. Hand stitched. I have had this pattern cut out for about 18 months. My friend has been working on hers and nearly finished so I thought I had better get mine done. This is a lovely little Xmas wall hanging designed by Sarah from https://alittlehappyplace.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-little-happy-sew-along-merry.html

Well, I finished the appliqué. 

I called it a day and went to cook dinner and relax. Here is our dinner. A lockdown treat.

I continued with my embroidery. Now they are done I only have to machine it all together.

Sunday I will be doing a repair job on one grandsons favourite toys. 

A head repair.

Then on to fix hubbies work jeans. He is a mechanic. I don’t want to throw them out and another pair damaged. There is still some life left in these.

Hopefully I might have some energy to get a scrap book page of my own done to join in with another challenge.

THANKS EVERYONE FOR A GREAT WEEKEND.

WOW. That was a catch-up of a post. Who would believe this is just one weekend. How could anyone think lockdown could be boring. 

I NEED MORE TIME..

Sewing with my grandsons

  We had our grandson sons visit. So I taught them to have. A play with the sewing machine. They loved it.

They were just playing around with scraps. There is an idea going around. If they come again and want to continue we will have some finishes.

They did a really good job.Not bad for 10 & 12 year olds….

Grand children and Easter

I was not able to be with our grandchildren for Easter. So the next best thing is photos.

I have been sent some lovely photos of my grandchildren celebrating Easter.

A relaxing visit with friends in Jan Juc

Over looking Torquay golf course.

The view of the beach from the deck

Having a game of Monopoly with the grandsons. 

Yes, Nicholas won...

Breakfast fun with the boys.

When my grandsons were here I took them out for breakfast one morning. We had a little chat, play and food. It was fun to see them be silly.

 Having fun in the playground 

My hubby and I also went shopping for a fun gift for him. Going back to what we used to do before we had kids.. Playing darts. It's now set up in our spare room.

Family have arrived....

We have settled in to our new home. Our daughter brought hers boys up and stayed for the weekend. It was beautiful weather. The sun warmed us all. She was glad to get out of the cold.

I'm glad they came for a visit with their technology

Enjoying the sunshine

Let the kids run around, burning up energy, enjoying the playground.

Fun in the park in the sunshine