got this block together.............I call it a joining block.............it goes with "Lucy"............I need heaps of these.........more on it later but it is pretty much all I have done since Saturday.......still sick......
slowly improving.........slowly..........
Just lying on the lounge or sleeping.........so boring............
no need to comment then I have to reply........and I don't have the energy for that.........
can't believe it's a good as the end of the month..........
You've missed heaps of these because they just have not been blogged....... but I am up to block 30 of who knows how many (yet to be decided).......only 6 have the trim on like this but I decided it would help to add the ' wings ' as I call them.... Not such a huge task once it starts to go together........
Some other lovely christmas goodies in the mail.................. Michelle @ Michelle Ridgeway Designs...........
A little ornament and stitchery design..........I have a couple of her stitchery designs and I must trace them off to stitch..............
Jewells sent me a christmas pouch and some candles............
Mr Chooky got this little chicken pattern..........
Jacquie @ My Journey sent his christmas ornament...........cute little snowman......
Sandi @ Forevermoore sent me a teatowel, cookie cutter and little ornament...........
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I love all these little parcels.......my tree has so many hand made ornaments that I love.......it's always wonderful going thru them each year remembering who sent them........
wonders will never cease........almost got the binding attached to a quilt this morning............just the join to do which I have totally stuffed up so I left it and will do it tomorrow morning when the brain is working............it sure felt good to be sewing...........The Miss from down the road joined me too..........
also fixed a pair of jeans for my brother - wouldn't like to say how long I have had them for but too long.........and the collar of a guensey............my machines aren't known for repairs to clothing...........
onto the good mail........Sonia @ Forever Always Online and I have shared some of our own fabric for our Lucy Boston quilts..........we have been known to have have text chats that go for hours about Lucy........sharing options, asking advice on placement etc.........so nice to receive a cut envelope of pieces to play with.............
sorry for the sideways pics but this is the next Lucy Boston BOM from Sandy @ Shiralee Stitches I just love getting these in the mail............
Recently when I had visitors Kylie and I decided to splurge in a weak moment when we saw the background prints on sale.............we added the brights too.....much nicer looking a bit flat in these pics sorry........
split the order between us............Kate @ Bellas Patchwork was very efficient in mailing this one out............I have a plan but must finish some stuff first.........
ok back to the bookwork...........the family are all out so it is a nice quiet time......
Caroline @ Caro's Blog contacted me after the SSCS had closed and she has done the swap for many years now..............she is a old blogging friend...........
So we decided on a direct swap............
is this not the cutest bag ever.....I adore the chook on the bowl stack........and the red/white border print is a traditional print which makes it more special..............
On the back is the cutest little chook poking out of the pocket.........
you can never have enough bags............I use them all all the time.............
thanks so much Caroline for the gorgeous gift...........
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I was posting this last week but with work and a quick trip away and a head cold/sinus/chest crap thing for the last week I am a regular snot machine.........I have not had a cold for YEARS.........and this one sure is hanging on..........
OK bookwork is calling.............and it i hot and unusually humid today......
Oh I so wished I was a fly on the wall when she told her sewing friends she was in the swap and that she was making for me...........LOL............
Boy oh boy did she do well................the bag is just gorgeous...............I love it.............pockets everywhere.............perfect needleturn.............
lots of tiny detail...........
even on all the pockets...........
and look a chook christmas ornament...........its so cute...........
Josie also included the Scottish Farmer since I'm a farmer and I can see whats happening in agriculture in her part of the world............
since I have some belted galloways she sent me a beltie calendar..........how cool.......and a few other treats including some chooky fabrics..............
Thanks so much for being a great partner Josie.........
bit of a revolving door here but it's stopped for now............it's been great having friends calling in...........
we spent some time at the dam with the kids again the next night but Mr Chooky didn't have the BBQ and it was a bit hotter and no shade so we went home to cook the BBQ..........
The guinea fowl have several nests in the garden...........I found 2 in the last week and they have a 3rd one they are nesting on...............plus there is another one just on the garden fence outside..........they are pretty sneaky but when you get used to looking you can find them..........
see there in the middle thru the agapanthus leaves...........yep no one sitting on there so I went behind the bushes and snapped this pic below..........
this one is under an emu bush..........again a mountain of eggs.........I had raided a few nests but as the chooks are laying well now I will leave these.............
yesterday we went to check another property..............bare and I would prefer green but love this pic.............
I was a little envious the other day when Fiona @ BubzRugz received some design boards from Susan @ Oh to Sew..............I had some boards to make them on and had looked at them a few times in the last week or so but couldn't really remember what she said to do so it hadn't happened............
So I was "tickled pink blue" when these arrived in the mail...........
after some texts with Sonia @ Forever Always I started tidying and in order to tidy I had some fabrics sitting on the cutting bench to cut Lucy Bostons from so i got that done.......even cut a border for another project and got it attached..........slowly things are happening..............
I didn't even bother going to the shed this week as it was too hot..........today is so different.......yesterday was 40.....today it's currently 15 degs with a few spots of rain (nothing much to make a difference)........so yesterday the house was all shut up with the air con blasting and today shut up as the breeze is a bit fresh but ohhhhhh so nice.............we never get changes this cool..........usually when it's 40 a cool change is around 30............
ok must go and get some more posts organised..........like my christmas ones..............and the bookwork is calling..........
Does any one have any of this fabric..... I want the red version..... See the tiny scrap I have left..... A 10in square would get me out of trouble......
I'll be back later in the week...had some visitors and waiting for a new lot to arrive in a few hours.... Stinker of a week coming.......supposed to get to 38 today and 39 tomorrow, then 41, 42, 41...... Catch you later..... Chookyblue.....
words are not enough but tHaNkYoU for all your beautiful comments on my last couple of posts and the other emails I have received also.......
I just haven't been able to reply to them but I have read thru them numerous times and appreciated every single one of them........
This is a song from the funeral..........Sissy's Song by Alan Jackson
we made it thru christmas with family around.........
catching up with some friends then some old school friends...........
then it has been nothing time..........
some of my visitors......Gringo and Lilly.......finally no more milk mixing.........they are all weaned.....by the end we were feeding 5 in the last batch of 10 in special care..........this year woops last year we had Milly, Billy, Lilly, Tilly (died months later), Silly (to silly to live and died also) then the younger batch was Gringo, Gringo's mate, Drongo, Dingbat and Wombo (who walked on 2 legs when we first got him and advanced to 3 but we could not clear the infection he had in his hip area so we had to get rid of him very sad as we had him for months and months but the infection beat us)
it's got very dry.........no sheep feed left.............not much cattle feed left either...............
some pics I took while mustering the other day........we should be feeding but hoping the rains are here and we can avoid that but the forecast have changed so much....downwards.........
the skys were amazing that day.........
sooooooo blue...........
the contrasts........just magical........
I sure do live in an amazing spot in the world........
i've just been pottering around the house..........folding the mountain of washing............doing some gardening........sleeping.......read a book.........chasing hoses watering the garden..........
slowly catching up on SSCS posts.........sorting the pics........lots of nothing..........
sewing has not happened yet.........haven't sewn on the machine for months and months........have some hand stitching to show..(woops no I don't lost it on my old phone).........it was stuff I have done sitting around hospitals with Dad......it even got thrown to the wind and I was hooked on a find a word book I picked up in hospital....required less concentration and while so tired my eyes felt very strained even with my glasses on..........yes yes I have booked an eye appointment to get them checked also...............
I've spent time in the chookshed but really just to hang out out here.............it's like my run away from home/life space............music is always on..........but we have progress today I have put 3 things away.....it's chaos but things are settling and organisation of some sort will return......
need to organise some pics of christmas goodies to share with you........
i'm in no rush with life at the moment.........
thankyou bloggers your the best.......keep on blogging............
