hello again...

soooo much to tell you all, what with a whole 3 - no almost 4 weeks of no posting, there has been a whole heap of goings on here in my corner of the world,

 here we have the wonderful Michele Hill from Adelaide, THE William Morris pattern and fabric designer, my BFF Colleen and I headed off to Tauranga at the beginning of March for a fabulous weekend at Village Fabrics and Needlecrafts. What a treat and a wonderful road trip for Colleen and I.

 We stayed in a cute little bach in Omokaroa, ate out at the local boat club, and walked heaps in the evening,

 I was ever so lucky to be in Wellington for my eldest daughters birthday - Envirogirl - we had a great time catching up, and I shall see her again at the end of the month when she is down,

 and I have been busy creating - in my spare time (hmmm... what is that??) - in between shop stocking, fabric arriving and a class this past weekend - all good fun and for another post huh

Ellie had a playmate when Rowing Boy (Son) and his wife (French Chic) came up for the weekend, Ellie is so tired now, and sleeping beside me as my fingers tap!!
... and I plan to spend the day updating my website - which will likely take me the best part of the day - before I head to my quilty machine - news about that too as I have updated to a new long-arm
talk again soon - have a fabulous day, wherever you are and whatever you are doing!

Gosh it has been a busy week..

hmmm it has been rather hectic, but oh so much fun!

 this bright breezy Dr Suess quilt is for my brand new - well 4 weeks old now - baby of my lovely niece Emma. Yep, 4-5 weeks old and just tipping the scales @ 71/2lbs, so a teeny tiny model

 this lovely bright one is for a very good quilting friend from our local group who very sadly lost her battle with cancer late last year, our group has been rather busy working through her stash making quilts for her grandchildren. So these are my 2 finishes for February OPAM... and I made a couple of journals also, but haven't managed to take photos yet.. on the to-do-list!

 and I have been rather busy eating plenty of these fresh goodies... off my good neighbours tree... must plant a few at our new home, they grow ever so well up here. It has been a plentiful year with beans, plums, pumpkins, courgettes, tomatoes and of course the usual lettuces, potatoes, spinach etc

 and a blog post is not complete without an update on our delightful leggy blonde.. my she is growing very fast. I can't imagine a time when she was not in our lives...

and this was on my (new) quilty machine.... all done and dusted now, along with 2 other mates, I thought I had photos, but cannot find them so maybe not... another time then,,
so, you see, I have been rather steadily busy - great fun!
how was yourweek?

Thrifty Thursday

Thursday is quilt group day every week, we meet at the local Church hall and sit and stitch the day away, on whatever projects we happen to be working on.
Thursday is also Op Shop day, so when the shop opens, right next door to the Church hall, pretty much right on the dot of 1pm, several of us march across and hunt for bargains. Yesterday was $2 bag day, that means anything and everything that you can get into a shopping bag is$2.... so did I get some bargains or what!

 some lovely cream lacy pillowslips ... will these need ironing? I wonder...

 and this pretty little white lace knit cardigan, can you see the delightful rosebud buttons... keep your eyes peeled to see what I do with this!

 and these gorgeous beads.. (currently on a t-shirt, but not for long),

the photo doesn't do this taupe cushion cover any justice, but I think if I add some beading & stitching embellishments, it will look just grand,

 not sure what I might do with this scarf and thingee, so into the later box this will go for the moment,

however, I do have a use for this linen tablecloth,

and I really like this buckle on the cute wee top,

this looks like a good basket to hold my stitching goodies,

and I am sure I will use this in the shop or studio as storage..

 this layer-cake is what I am currently working on,

and Ellie managed to unravel this jelly roll so guess I am using this one up now too... now can the question is, can I get this done before the end of the month??


p.s. another post that was 'sposed to be on Thursday but blogger wouldn't let me publish - fingers crossed it will work now!

FNSI ~ A Visit ~ A Class

FNSI saw me hand stitching on this

 the borders for Imperial Blooms - Sue Spargo's 2011 BOM

 just need to finish off the last block before I can put it all together and then start on the 2012 BOM, Earth n Twigs

 and I put these blocks together

 from these fabrics, still a little bit to do yet..

 and Saturday, Laurie called in for an overnight visit, Laurie is travelling around the South Island on a holiday

 and over the weekend I taught a 2 day class on my Mt Cook Sunrise quilt (in the background of next photo), these are some of the blocks created,

and here are 3 of the creators, I love teaching this quilt, it is such fun!
I hope your weekend was fun too!

FNSI

yep, that's right tonight is Friday Night Sew-in time again
head on over to Heidi's blog and sign up, it is a whole ton of fun,
spend tonight stitching on your favourite project or not-so-favourite UFO;
post about it tomorrow, and the see what everyone else has been up to
I'll be there, will you?

Sunday Snippets.... on Monday evening

well this post was to have been published last evening but blogspot was not obliging ..

It was a good weekend... and yours?

some days...

some days I just want to sit and read everyone else's blogs...

 but I have to tell you about the gorgeous goodies that Cat sent me, Cat was my swap partner for Cheryl's Initial Heart Swap for Valentine's day

 thanks Cat, I am really going to enjoy this cup!

so after having the lounge walls painted some months ago... and we are not counting so I don't have to tell you how long ago that was, I have finally got around to putting up some of our artwork, and bits

 looking a lot better, and far more homely and cosy

 I love these plates, they were a pre-Christmas purchase from this outing here.. at the Broad bay China Shop... I just love that place!

 and a bit of piecing, my niece had a baby boy last week, and so we will be travelling to Dunedin this weekend, so I shall get to meet him and take his quilt down to him

and a bit of playing going on as well in my studio this weeknow it is February, back to routines...holiday time over...
have fun!