~A Respite Weekend For Us.......and Chooky's Christmas Swap~

This weekend we had organised a much looked forward to respite for JoJo

We thought we'd have a day trip down the coast

We started off at the Blue Earth Cafe for coffee/lemon myrtle tea and lunch

We ended up at the beautiful seaside port of Bermagui where Billy Connolly filmed part of the film The Man Who Sued God

We had Fish 'n Chips here and saw a fishing boat come in.

This morning I made (gluten free) Choc Chip Muffins with Choc Chips that were organic from 

The Rustic Pantry

This afternoon I did a little on my Tilda Club Pin Cushion

 and to finish off we went for a beach walk in the late afternoon and saw the sun catching the waves

 and on the beach grass

'round the corner this piece of gum!

A lovely relaxing weekend just being 'us' and tasting the 'normal' world

We could come and go as we please

Sit for as long as we wanted without having to jump up and down

We even walked together and held hands on the beach

Something we don't normally do as one of us has to be with JoJo!!!

All in all a lovely weekend........

I have joined Chookyblue's Secret Santa Christmas Swap this year and looking forward to receiving news of who my partner is!!!

Thank you to everyone who comes over and reads my humble little blog and comments on it

I truly do appreciate it and do try sincerely to get back to everybody

Hope your weekend was a good one

Here's to another week........Dzintra xo

~South Coast Country Quilters Quilt Show~

Last weekend I went to the South Coast & Country Quilters Biannual Quilt Show

I took some pics of a few of the quilts that caught my eye

Dragonfly Dance by Sheila Williams

The Golden Domes

The Golden Domes of Terem Palace, Moscow

Photos taken in 2008

Jenny Cantrill

My Favourite Things designed by Anni Downs

Needle Turn Applique and Hand Piecing

Margaret Herzog

Winter Wonderland

From a Crab-Apple design with some added Appliqué

Features Red Work Embroidery and some Embellishment

Pieced by Marilyn Gibson Redwork Embroidery, Machine Piecing

Quilted by Marilyn Gibson

Dalmeny Quilters

For Sam

Quick Irish Chain

Pieced by Barbara Steller

Quilting by Allison Willis

Barbara Steller, Tuesday Twitterers

I absolutely loved this one

Disappearing 9 Patch

Inhouse Workshop

Machine Pieced by Liz Perry

Quilting by Debbie Adam

Liz Perry

Night Owls

For Zach

Scrap 16 Patch Quilt

Machine Pieced by Margaret Browning

Quilting by Debbie Adam

Margaret Browning

Night Owls

And Autumnal Pinwheels

Scrappy Quilt

Machine Pieced and Quilted by Patricia Chanter

Red Berry Quilters

Another great Quilt Show SCCQ.........Looking forward to the next one!!!

~Canberra Craft & Quilt Show......and a handy little Quilt Chart

A couple of weeks ago I went up to the Canberra Craft and Quilt Show 

Here are 2 of the quilts that caught my eye

Through the Garden Gate, Rose Lewis

224 x 227.5cm

This quilt depicts Rose’s front garden, as it is in spring. She has heavily trapuntoed all the applique and most of the quilting; all sewing have been done on a domestic machine. Look for snails, wrens, ladybirds, spider webs…

They were just stunning!!!
For exhibition prizes and results go over here

And of course a little shopping

Above is a little round place mat

Bits and pieces including the quilt everything is sitting on.
Canberra Quilters always have a great Trading Table

Canberra Quilters Inc is the oldest patchwork group in Australia. Founded in 1976 by
Margaret Rolfe, it began life as ‘The Patchwork Group’. This fledgling group, which met in members’ homes, has grown steadily and now enjoys a membership of several hundred and its own premises at Cook Community Hub.

Here is the back of the quilt

Quite unusual fabric and colours so I just had to bring it home with me!!!

A great day especially since Mr Armchair had the day off to care for JoJo so I could have a day out!!!

I saw this little  Quilt Size Chart and thought how handy so had to blog it!!!

~OPAM (One Project A Month) August 2014~ My Sing Bag

My finished project for this month's OPAM is my Sing Bag

And I'm so happy with it

All the little squares coming together

And ta-da......

All done and hanging and waiting for the right time to wear it!!!

the back

And just one more time

I bought the Fabric Pack from Hatched and Patched

Pattern by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched from her booklet The Simple Life

Thank you Sweet Peg and Kris for hosting OPAM

It's wonderful to be able to finish a Project A Month

And a little funny I couldn't resist!!!

Happy Sewing everyone......Dzintra