A very old UFO. Sue’s embroidered brown blocks.

 Years ago a lovely friend of mine, Sue, made all these beautiful machine embroidered blocks for me. Well, I have just got around to doing something with them.

I have decided on the sashing I want to do to make a quilt big enough. Maybe a single bed size but it is definitely bigger than a lap quilt.

I have been sewing it together slowly.

Here are all the individual blocks. They are very cute. Sorry that some are blurry.

Aren’t all the embroideries so cute…

Well, I was away on retreat in November and I worked on them some more.

Look at it now. The top is complete.

Thank you so much Sue. I do love them and think of you all the time.

A weekend away with hubby. Junee, NSW, part 1. Licorice and chocolate factory.

 

NSW was going through terrible flooding and still is. We had been wanting to get away as it is nearing Xmas and our weekends are filled we thought we would try to see if we could make it to Junee. Hubby stopped there on his recent trip around Aust. and they found a licorice factory. Yummy. So off we headed. Then there were storms. There was a small clearer section in the middle of the sky, this is where we were headed.

A race against time. Look out to the left. We made it to Junee without too much rain which was good.

The clubs in NSW have curtesy buses so both Thursday and Friday nights we got lifts to the RSL clubs for dinner.Saturday morning, in between the rain, we walked about 500metres to the factory for breakfast and a lovely coffee. They did a good job. We looked around and we shopped too. Yep, the Xmas presents are bought. You could watch the licorice and chocolates being made.

Into the shop

Offered some tastings… mmmmmm yummmmy

Off into the Motor Museum next.

Away on retreat at Lake Cullulleraine.

 I was lucky enough to be away on retreat recently with 25 ladies from our quilt group. We went from Thursday to Sunday and I had a great time.

It was very productive. Unfortunately I didn’t get many photos so they will be posted about when I get some work back.

No. 1…..  Machining on the binding to this panel charity quilt for someone else to hand stitch down. 

No. 2….. Putting on the binding onto this cute baby quilt which will be gifted in March next year.

No. 3….. Assembling all my embroidered blocks, attaching sashings… Done. another post to come.

No. 4 & 5….. Group blocks made and assembled into not 1 but 2 great scrap quilts. These are now with others for quilting. Will do a post with them when the binding is finished.

No. 6….. More embroidered quilt blocks made by my friend Sue. These are sunflowers. I have got them out of the old packed away boxes to get them done. I’m so glad the pattern was with them as I had no idea what I was up to. All the pieces are cut except the navy. They only thing was the navy fabric wasn’t with them. So I have to go searching so I can get it finished.

No. 7….. After lunch on Sunday I just sat and put through a heap of scraps through the go cutter and cut piles of 2” strips. I have another idea for a scrap quilt and this will also include string block. More on this project later.

I have not unpacked any of my things and I have been home for 10 days now.

It was a great time and I even stopped by and joined in Chooky’s zoom for a little while. Not long though. I had to go and eat breakfast otherwise I would miss out.

Mildura floods.

 We have had so much rain and more to come. The floods are rising.

Here are a few photos for you to see the changes over the last couple of days.

Lock 11… then

And today

Next is the playground near the cafe, which has been relocated.

Apex holiday park on Friday

And today

This is the dock where the paddle steamer leaves from. As you can see the water level is extremely high. No access at all.

This was Lock 10

Now it is covered. This shot is showing where the Darling and the Murray Rivers meet at Wentworth NSW.

Dockside cafe 2 weeks ago.

And look at it now. The garden beds are completely covered as is the bottom dining deck.

We are expecting it to get much higher over the next week or two.

Luckily we live at the other end of town and are not affected at all.

Another scrap project in works

 With some more of scrap blocks being assembled I will have another quilt together soon.

These are some blocks that have been made.

Now I am assembling them… They will make a great top. 

I’m sure there will be lots of areas that will need quilts now after all the flooding.

Junee, part 4. The Train Roundhouse.