A Gardener's Journal - block B

A Gardener's Journal block B.......Anni Downs Hatched and Patched............

I need to get a move on with this quilt but here is another block..........I have several in progress but just need to get them finished.....

the girls are making fantastic progress on the Stitch-a-long blog............check it out if you haven't been to the blog before or for quite awhile..........everyone's quilts are going to be different - so many great colour combinations.......many only have a few blocks to go..........

Catch you later

Chookyblue......

Little flowers............

Can't show you what i have been working on til later in the week so lets go with the flowers i took a few weeks ago........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

sorry to say this BUT............

BUT...BUT...BUT......

.... some of you will hate me and some love me but there is only

 2 months left til Christmas..

......SCARY 

I know..............LOL.........

I can't wait but could do with another month or 2 jammed in there first..........

I have to include some pics so here is 6 quick pics I grabbed from SSCS09 presents

All this means there is

1 month left til the SSCS parcels need to be sent off 

.........keep up the good stitching and planning for your secret projects........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

bargains galore...........

On my way home from holidays I kept an eye out for quilt shops.............not so much luck when you travel on a weekend..............I managed to slip into one just on closing and found a couple of bits of fabric and some for a dress for Fairy Girl...............but as I came past another shop i called into earlier in the year I discovered it was open on a Sunday morning...........how exciting i thought...........and then I saw a garage sale sign and thought of that must be down the side street..............BUT NO it was the shop.............they had a garage sale all weekend...........what was to be a 5 minute stopped ended up being for a lot longer............heaps of beautiful fabrics reduces and then I got an even better price on the fabrics so I just got a little carried away.........but is was worth it for the shop lady getting rid of more stock......I also got some super bargains on a bundle of various patterns............

Shame to see a quilt shop closing.............I wished she was close to me as she had a lovely shop with great fabrics and patterns...........also a wonderful sewing room for groups.............

Verna by Kate Spain - the pink on the bottom a dress or top for Fairy Girl is in the plans

lots of reproductions........

I use this wide elastic in skirts and shorts.....this is nearly a full roll that I would have only been able to buy 5 metres and covered the cost............if you need a metre or too let me know.............I have plenty...........

Garden Party..........already have a little of this so now I can add this to it and make some more goodies..........

Bookworm brought these bits............no idea what he is going to do with it but he likes the bright strong colours.............personally they scare me.........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

Paper bag swap sent...........

In the online group Friends in Stitching paper bag swap Razzy sent me this beautiful stitchery to play with, with the 2 fat 1/4's........

I made this bag for Razzy......hope you like it Razzy...............I love working with the fabrics too.............this is the first paper bag swap I have done so a bit scary playing with fabrics you know the recipient loves...............will you do them justice, will they like what you make............LOL....

Another fun swap........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

Paper bag swap received.............

Friends in an online group had a paper bag swap..........I sent my goodies to Kerri..........look what she made me.........a thread keeper for beside my machine. I only have one and sometimes Fairy Girl borrows it. Now we can share both of them.........

Woops just realised the little pincushion that moves is sitting over some stitching.............Kerri did this beautiful stitchery for me too..........

and the bottom part..........

The fabrics have extra special meaning as Maree Farmyard Crafts sent me the fat 1/4's in an swap and I was saving them for something special for me so the perfect use..............

Kerri has done a wonderful job and I have a wonderful reminder of both my great blogger friends beside my machine..........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

A very special day............

Mary MacKillop will be canonised in a few hours at the Vatican in Rome. She will be the first Saint from Australia.

Mary MacKillop founded the Sisters of St Joseph. I was educated by this order of Nuns. It is a very special day for her to become a Saint.

Saint Mary of the Cross.

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

A day out...........

I've had a lovely day out...........took my cards to a ladies day...........the day was supposed to be in a garden but with the AWFUL FREEZING WET WEATHER we have had thankfully they were able to get an indoor venue at the last minute.

Lots of different stalls but I got to be next to Kerry - Cottage on the Hill - excellent

This is one of Kerry's new quilts "1800 stars" I think she called it.........

I just love it and it is done with reproductions prints............
She had kits - one nearly traveled home with me.........

of course then I had to get a couple of fat 1/4's

mine on the left  (just into the shop - A Journey Through Time The Old Sturbridge Village Collection) love the whole range...........

Fairy Girl picked the 1930's repro.

Fairy Girl also got to have a quick catch up with Little Miss Thimble..........

I got to see lots of the Club Quilt ladies which was great..........lots of quilts on display for the day too.......

Fairy girl took a liking to two quilts and wants to make them...........we'll see what happens there 

The one on the right is made by Gaizie.......

AND how tell me how on earth did the kids swangle this one but meet "2Up" (a bantam game chook) (and named 2up since he is a game bird and 2up is a game- get it - I didn't until explained on the way home) 

2up is one day old on the left and I hope is a HEN........

......this is Book Worms new pet - lets hope we can keep it warm enough for the next few days it is like a cold winters change and freezing.......it should be spring..........

On the right we have "Sunshine" Fairy Girls new pet......

......I had budgies for years as a kid so I am quite pleased Fairy Girl has one now too.............

the farm menagerie has expanded............LOL............

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

river views............

Murray River.........

woops this one is upside down.........

Lots of trees along the edge have fallen in with the recent flood...........

Torrumbarry Weir

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

life never stops...........

WOW where have the last 2-3 weeks gone........... 

a seriously neglected garden but beautifully flowering spots here and there

heaps of sheep work.........and extra visitors which was handy for the lamb marking........

the lake at Lake Cargelligo is finally full after years of drought...........both the town and lake are bigger then I thought they would be........

spotting windmills is fun on the Hay plain (see that little stick in the middle)

occassionally you get a vehicle to pass.............it has been many years since I went across this area but wonderful to see it looking so good

Black Swamp sculptures - something about a headless horseman scaring drovers

finally life stopped for a few days.....

....I spent some time here stitching Gardener's Journal

and playing with fabrics here..........

Now to catch up with everything..........and get over the travelling........

everywhere we went thru in NSW is looking wonderful and green with lots of crops everywhere too.......all the crops are up in head and some are just starting to turn.............harvest will be here in no time...........
I just wished Australia wasn't so big...........goodness knows how many countries I would have been thru if I lived in Europe............

Catch you later..............Chookyblue