COVID-19 in MILDURA…….FNSI, SCRAP HAPPY SATURDAY & SLOW STITCHING SUNDAY and a little UGLY fabric I sent

 UPDATED….

MILDURA has now got its first case of COVID in 15 months. All because of some idiots & the crowds at an AFL football game at the MCG in Melbourne. People don’t think this is serious. We have to sit and wait how this will spread. As for me I am just going to work and keeping my mask on, using lots of sanitiser and keeping away from everyone. I’m fortunate that the supermarket is next door to where I work. I don’t have to go into town at the moment..

I’ll be keeping safe and to myself.. UPDATES WILL FOLLOW.

I am catching up on a few posts at the same time here… 

How I spent my Friday night for FNSI & Saturday playing with scraps. Sorting my scraps into strips & crumbs, cutting 2.5” squares and preparing Fishy School blocks for my leader and Enders project. There are lots of blue scraps here hidden in the piles of mess.

FNSI

https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/2021/07/sign-ups-for-julyalready.html

SCRAP HAPPY SATURDAY

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2021/07/scraphappy-saturday-lazy-days-of-summer.html

BONNIE HUNTER - QUILTVILLE - Leader and Enders.

https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2021/07/july-2021-leader-ender-challenge-fish.html

And just to show I still do a little bit of slow stitching. Here I was last week finishing the binding on my ugly fabric quilt

SLOW STITCHING SUNDAY

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

UGLY FABRIC SWAP.. the other way

The swap I have been involved in has been great. You have seen the quilt I made with my UGLY fabric in the last post. Here is what I sent to my partner and what she did with it.

Amazing…….

And the finished quilt

Our rules were. 

To use the fabric in the centre of the quilt and not just the border. It had to measure a minimum of 36” * 45”

 

MOUSE ESCAPES THE WATERMELON PATCH

 Ooohhhh how exciting. Here is my finished UGLY FABRIC QUILT.

It is very different to everyone else's quilts. When I received the fabric I thought I wanted to make something for a little girl. I had an idea in my head. I searched Pinterest. I found a card cut out and took it from there. I like using up my scraps so I went with it.

It is bright and the colours remind me of a watermelon patch.

Here is a closer look at the centre.

I wanted the fabric to be the centre and highlight..

So I think I'm going to call this one THE MOUSE ESCAPING THE WATERMELON PATCH. It measures 37" * 62"

And here is where it all began. My UGLY fabric from Tracy... Cosmocat

FNWF, Chooky’s Zoom & a challenge top done.

 I have been doing a little sewing over the past week but I really got into it on Friday night and sewed along with many others in FNWF.

https://stitchingcubbyhole.blogspot.com/2021/07/friday-night-with-friends.html

So here is what I was working on. My ugly fabric challenge.

I decided on a pattern to use most of my fabric with appliqué. So pattern was drawn out, ironed on to the background and then stitching began. The stitching made the shape stand out a bit better.

Look at all that I had left.

Of course, I had to make lots of 6.5” crumb squares for the background. They went on for a while.

This continued into Saturday where I went to an all day sit n sew with my quilt group. Only 5 of us turned up so it was a great little group with plenty of space.

Earlier in the week at our charity sewing night I got the girls making laundry bags for Aussie Hero Quilts and these continued on Saturday as well.

Projects worked on were a yoga mat bag, Bonnie Hunter mystery, Aussie Hero laundry bags, a fantastic quilt of houses (I can’t remember it’s name. Sorry Chris), mug rugs and my Ugly mystery.

We did have a great day. All packed up and on the way home I stopped and bought noodles for dinner. No cooking today. Unpacked the care, ate dinner, sat down again to sew and join Chooky and the gang for a ZOOM sewing night.

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2021/07/zoom-zoom.html

Using up my green scraps for the crumb crazy background blocks.

I got my Ugly quilt completed. It measures 37.5” * 64”

Can you see the pink mouse hanging from the balloon?

I was going to call it Mouse in the strawberry field but Janice said it reminded her of watermelons so now it might be MOUSE ESCAPING THE WATERMELON PATCH.

Thanks for a great day to all my sewing friends from far and near.

Holiday snaps and some sewing and a finish

 Ok, here are a few holiday snaps. I didn’t really take many but I’ll show you some.

While driving along you see some beautiful views. Driving up the highway the morning we left Port Augusta we saw this amazing view. The clouds surrounding a table top mound. (I am not very good with names of things or the history). It was stunning.

My next photo was when we had a stop just over the border into the Northern Territory. Of course we did get a photo.

We had a big day of driving this day. Approx 700kms. It was a late day so we ended up having our overnight stay in a roadside stop bay. It was at the landmark for the Tropic of Capricorn. It was busy stop for travellers too.

It’s such a shame that there are people out there that want to destroy everything.

Now for my sewing.

I have been working on my Fairy Quilt Godmother but I can’t show the right side of  my work a sit is a challenge for our group. But I will show you a bit of progress 

Then I worked on my motorbike quilt. It is finished and today I sewed on the label and hanging sleeve.

I am involved with an online group called Quilting Around the World. QATW.

We have going on an ugly fabric swap. I got sent an ugly 1/2 metre and I am to make a quilt with it measuring larger than 36*45”. It cannot just be a border but must be used in the main part of the quilt. I also had to send my partner a fabric I chose. 

Here is what I received.

I have decided on a pattern and chosen the fabric I am putting with it.

I can’t show my progress as this is a challenge as well.