Sydney

We headed to Sydney last weekend to visit Ma and Paul. It was lovely to catch up with them both. It rained on Saturday so we had a quiet time but on Sunday the weather improved and we decided to head into the city and walk to Barangaroo. Ma managed the walking really well!

We stopped for morning tea along the way and then found this cute little cafe for lunch. Amazingly it used to be a book shop for the Scots church next door. It brought back many memories as we "young" ones used to come to this church for Baptist Youth services way back in the olden days. I remember it all as great fun. I also liked the way the cafe was decorated!

Lovely work

Great to see all the wonderful work being done by the class ladies last week. Lynne has been particularly busy and has finished her Tilda bag and has made two useful pouches to match.

 She has also completed her lovely bag from Anni Downs book, The Simple life.

 She also made a beautiful pouch to match this bag as well!

 Roni has been busy and has made herself a beautiful hexi necklace.

 I am very excited today as I have 3 quilts ready to head to the quilter. So exciting to see Foxley Village, The Story of my day and Anderson's Farm all ready to go.

 I have been knitting this week so my only other little finish is this pouch!

Some stitching...

It was lovely to see Jayne's finished bag last Wednesday. I just love her choice of fabrics.

 I decided to make another of these appliques for a zippered tote. You may recall that I left mine on the plane last year!!! I just love doing this woven wool felt applique. Now to sew it together.

 I have been busy in the sewing room. The inner borders are on The Story of my day and now 3 of the outer borders have been added.

 Block 3 of Dancing Chickens and Flying Pigs came last week and I couldn't resist doing it straight away.

 I have also been slowly adding to my collection of United stitches blocks.

 I completed this one down the coast on the weekend.

 It was quite rainy and not warm enough for me to go in but several people did. Bruce managed to capture some lovely pictures.

Preschool and stitching

The big boys headed to preschool last week! They were so excited and it was fun to see them head into this next stage of their lives.

 So they needed some library bags and these kept me busy earlier this week.

 On Wednesday we minded the boys for the whole day and it was so busy. I managed to lose Mr Ben in Questacon which was very scary for me!! He seemed quite OK! We got very hot attempting to fly kits in the afternoon. We were all too busy to get many photos.

On the stitching front, I made block 99 of The splendid Sampler yesterday.

 I have slowly been stitching another block of United stitches.

Just today I have started to applique these little flowers for the borders of The Story of my Day.

Great show and tell

There were some lovely projects on show last Wednesday. Leslie has finished her beautiful basket using the pattern by Anni Downs. She has done an amazing job.

 Marlene came to class with this handy needlecase and her Tilda bag all finished. Great work Marlene.

 In the evening, Lynn brought in her wonderful quilt to show us. She did the BOM run by Hobbysew and it is a lovely pattern by Natalie Bird.

 Lynn has also made this wonderful advernt calendar. It is a great pattern by Marg Low.

 Lynne, in the afternoon, also brought in this beautiful zippered pouch that her sister brought back from Japan. So gorgeous.

 I have been plodding along with my projects. Here are the last two blocks of The story of my day.

 I also completed this crocheted scarf which I started years ago. I bought the cotton cheaply in Japan at the 100 yen shop (like out $2 shops here).

 Finally, another couple of blocks for The Splendid Sampler. Only 2 to go!