More postcards from USA..

 My post cards are slowly coming through to me. These are what I have received lately.

From MONA

from LAURA

from PAM

Unfortunately I have to wait for my parcel with my Autumn mug rug and my panel quilt top. USA says Australia isn’t allowing parcels to be sent and others are told USA is refusing to send to Australia.

Whatever the reason the mail has been slow everywhere. Hopefully I might get mine for Xmas. It will be a nice surprise when they do turn up. The ladies in th USA are phoning their post office regularly to check. As soon as they can send they will..

FNWF & ZOOM update . Everyone was shocked.

FNWF with Cheryll @ https://stitchingcubbyhole.blogspot.com/2021/09/at-fnwf.html

I have been trying to workout what to do with a panel I bought from Lesley Mays quilt shop.

I am in a swap and have to add pieced or appliqués borders. It cannot just be a straight cut border.

Drawing out the design…

So choosing the fabrics…

But these didn’t work so something different has happened

Getting ready to cut the fabrics but the rotary blade needed a sharpen before I started

Cutting the fabrics…

Nope. These were wrong. Start again

Making a mess…

Oh no, I’ve cut off the Galahs head

And the Koalas ear…

Now ready for hand stitching with Chooky on zoom.

SATURDAY

 Well, did I shock everyone. I joined in zoom at just after 6 am. I’m not an early riser but I just had to do it. 

I continued with my panel project I was working on @FNWF and hand stitched down the kangaroo tail.

I am working on the last border today so you will see all about it soon. This is a surprise swap so I don’t want to spoil it if the recipient reads here.

Time for knitting teddy bear vest for charity. Jan Mac donates these to foster care kids or abused children. Everyone deserves someone to love.

https://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/

You can find the pattern here..

https://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/2021/06/instructions-for-knitted-teddy-bear-vest.html

I then went on to show a little bit of my scrap knitting blanket squares. With this blanket you don’t need to sew the squares together.

Here is the start of it

I got the idea from this picture on Pinterest 

You can find the basic pattern here.

http://thecuriouskrafter.blogspot.com/2013/04/domino-baby-blanket.html

I had some lunch then headed back to bed for 3 hours. It was such a fun morning so thank you Chooky and everyone else that chatted away. Good to see you all, hear your stories and see what you have been working on.

Until next time…….

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2021/09/refueling-soul.html

My panel has arrived from Candis.

 I was so excited to get home and there was a parcel at my front door. Yes, it had arrived. The wait is over. All the way from the USA. I couldn’t wait to get inside and cut open the bag (very carefully though).

Isn’t this just stunning. All that paper foundation sewing. 

THANK YOU CANDIS....

And there was a little bit extra. Some leftover fabric too.

Now here are the two swap quilt tops side by side. My intentions will be to make them the same size and I will put them on my single beds in the spare room. They may even up with my grandsons in future years.

These were 2 wonderful swaps which were a delight to receive. I will be watching out for when the next one is later in the year.

Shopping spree.....

 While we travelled to the Barossa we made a few stops at quilt shops. My purse is feeling the hit but I came away with a few good things. 

Here are some.....

I am going to make another motorbike quilt for my hubbies groups AGM. He wanted something different to the last two I have done. So when he saw this panel that was it.

Then there were so many for me to choose for a special swap project I have going on. I ended up choosing something very Australian. Now that I am home I have to pull other fabrics and choose a design.

So the fun begins....

I have decided on a design and the fabrics. Now I just have to make it work...

Now for some of our time away.

We stopped at this great lookout. It has such a wonderful view.

It was an amazing view. We saw so many beautiful places. So many to post about.

We arrived at our accommodation in Lyndoch and enjoyed happy hour...

We were to get a nice cheese platter and some lovely wine. Mmmmm not much of a platter... anyway...

We had a bit of a drive and found MAGGIE BEER’S restaurant. The funny thing that day was we had just been watching her on tv with the tv show... The Cook & the Chef.

This is where they filmed the tv show.

The shop seemed a little over priced but it was good for a visit. You can book into some cooking classes too.  There were some turtles in the lake and lovely fruit trees in the garden 

Our last night in the Barossa, after visiting a few too many wineries we decided to stay close to our accommodation and support the locals. So for dinner we went to the local pub for a pizza and join in on the trivia night....

We came away with a few bottles of wine we had won. Yes, surprise, we won a round and a word competition. So we beat the locals. Very good night....

Well our stay was over and we were on our way home. We stopped for lunch at Renmark..

Look what we saw on the river. A houseboat. If you could tell. It was the most amazing thing. I’m not sure how it still was floating.

It had a bath tub, garden, large fridge & stove. It was a junk yard on water but I’m sure somewhere in there someone lived. You could Moore here for up to 76 hours in any 14 days.

It was fascinating to see... After lunch we drove home and had to unpack, do the washing and groceries. Back to reality and to plan the next trip.

I’m off to see what else was worked on over at the link up at Wendy’s.

https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/2021/03/friday-night-sew-in-sign-ups.html