11-15 Lucy blocks.............

Another 5 blocks...........all late last year..........

when I felt like I lived in the car....
always have hand stitching to grab......

no 11

No 12

No 13

No 14

No 15

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

"Keeping the love of blogging alive"

Out and about......

Wow how cold is it..........pretty sure its record lows here..........

regardless some things still need to happen and I have been out on the bike moving some cows who were in the wrong paddock...........

I am sure I looked like summo woman with all the layers on and beanie and scarf and glasses you could see some fat cheeks and the bridge of my nose........everything else covered...........

I do need new motor bike gloves too...........

I went to check the feeders and when I tipped a feeder over this pile of grain has shot between the feeders......pretty cool seeing the profile that is normally under the ground.............

unfortunately there was some rotten sprung grain in some too and we had to clean that out...........very stinky rotten grain............

And this feeder had several gulars caught in it chasing the grain when I got there...........this one could not fly out.....it's not really wide enough for their wing span and I could not reach it...........

Mr Chooky came over and he tipped it out............

We need to fill the feeders but it is a bit too wet for that need a few more days without rain.......

the first paddock of oats is coming along slowly...............

All the gilgis are full and this one had lilli pads in it.....how does this happen when you can have such dry weather........

Nature amazes me............

I had gumboots on so could walk in to take closer pics..........

bugger this one is  sideways............

delicate and pretty......

And the reason why we went out to start with.............

more wood for the fire.............

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

"Keeping the love of blogging alive"

6-10 Lucy's............

These were late last year........most came from a sick week in September when I just sat at the table with a box of fabric and played............

no 6

no 7

No 8

no 9

no 10 

I know it's a bit late but I wanted to make sure I have posted them all here for myself if nothing else...............

working on getting the extra cream bits on these as it was later when I started adding the cream sections to the blocks as I finished them...........

Freezing here today..........with a lazy wind that cuts thru you instead of going around...........but off for my walk anyway.............

Hope your having a great weekend............

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

"Keeping the love of blogging alive"

Lucy blocks......

I'm not sure what I have shown you of my Lucy Boston blocks...........I've got 20 of mine done now and 18 of Sandy's BOM with more 3 cut to join up..........

I'm going to share over a few posts my blocks as I don't think I have posted many here............

Block 1

Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

The block above and below contain the exact same fabric in the 4x4 centre fussy cut pieces.........

Block 5

i've been taking out heaps of papers...........they'll all get reused.....and I was running out of papers again.....

I give the blocks a squirt of starch and press and remove the papers immediately.......the fresh ironing helps with the glue........

I use a tailors awl to slide in along underneath and release the glue from the papers.........then flip all the papers out...........(well except for the outside round)

i've been playing with the edge and corner too.............

last week i finally got this one finished of the BOM..............number 16.......it got left aside as one of the brown blocks needed better placement of the paper and I had just kept putting it off........took no time to finish once I unstitched and re-glued the paper...........

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Stay warm if your in the south east of Oz.........just a freezing cold few days here now........it's windy outside......very chilly...........the fires great keeps the chills out......might need to shove an extra piece of wood in.........

Catch you later...... 

Chookyblue.....

Lamby.....

Look who wants to come and join me in the chookshed...... She is so cute and growing fast...  Happy sitting on the deck.......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Epping rain......

It's wet wet wet again.........64mls so far......

not sure about work tomorrow.........could be interesting..........

This pile of pieces.......

got trimmed and tuned into the below.............

280 pieces waiting to be glued..........

and this pile got glued...............

prep takes time but glad this is done...........

now I want to get all these glued and joined up into their blocks before I think about cutting any more.........I will need more of the blue squares.........

I will also need to pull some papers out of the finished blocks to reuse........

Anyway off to bed with a new mag to read.........

I rarely buy a mag this looks great..........

no crap ads and rubbish articles.......

Catch you later...... 

Chookyblue.......

Keeping the love of blogging alive.....

Fun with a friend.....

Another great afternoon sewing with a friend.......
More rain..... More sewing time as to wet to do the cattle work......
Catch you later.......
Chookyblue.....

Keeping the love of blogging alive.....

Not sowing.....

Not sewing.........woops I mean sowing.............the other sowing.......

Just a tad wet still and heaps of rain forecast again this weekend........

guess farming is on hold for a bit now.......

weekend activities.............

sadly the visitors are all gone..........a million loads of washing later all sheets and towels are done.......great time with everyone though.........

sunset......

holey mother of god this would have hurt coming out.......

my chooks lay big eggs anyway..........but this double yoker is huge........

the one on the left 66 grams the right 100 grams..........

a polar fleece snuggly for a special boy..........

also got another 2 finished but forgot to take a pic........

they have headed to there new home too...........the kids can drag them around the lounge room and so quick and easy to wash and dry when it's cold and wet...............

great as nice and snuggly warm........

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trip away tomorrow but then home for a few days and looks like the perfect forecast for time in the Chookshed.........

Catch you later..... 

Chookyblue.....

"Keeping the love of blogging alive"

Lifes good....

Keeping the love of blogging alive....
Chookyblue.....

Lucy filler...

Not much happening since the weekend..... Got a Lucy filler finished.....

June longweekend always means visitors..... We have some family friends,  Boy Wonder has mates,  Fairy Girl's girlfriends........ Can't wait....

Depending on the weather bonfires,  camp ovens and lots more.....

Misty showers here at the moment.... Not much forecast but won't take much since it is still so wet from the weekend..... 

Have a great weekend.... 

'Lamby' is going well.......

Catch you later

Chookyblue.....

'Keeping the love of blogging alive'

A new family member....

Look what arrived in my kitchen yesterday when the girls were here.....

So very kind of the neighbours.....lol

Catch you later....

Chookyblue.....

Ta da......

once I got the post visitor jobs done and the last blog post I put the sewing machine to work........

I had a goal..........to get my quilt top together.....

TA DA...........

yet to decide on a name or if I am adding any more borders............I started it at Cottage on the Hill @ Nundle at my 2014 retreat 2013 retreat.........

link here.........

The pattern is Rising Star by Anka's Treasures........

Found in her book Angles with Ease.........

I love her patterns...........

Also whipped up a design board............

Well that's the wrap for the weekend............

THANKYOU EVERYONE so very much for joining in the fun...........I've still got to visit all your posts to see what you have done but I am heading to bed shortly.............those girls are all night owls and I stayed up WAY to late every night..... 

I am so blessed to have the Chookshed something I never ever thought I would achieve.........so it is an absolute delight to be able to share it with friends I made thru blogging both in person and online is very special.............

Keeping the love of blogging alive...... 

Chookyblue.....

Home alone........

Sadly i fed the girls a big beef casserole and steamed vegies and sent them on their way.............

but here's an update...........

Allie finished a gorgeous wool blanket.....lovely chunky wool.......

I sewed away today.........

Kate Cate@ Show and Tell and her projects.......she made a pile of the dresdans..........yet to add the yellow circles but one sitting here for the effect........

Jenny @ Bird on the Border made a baby's quilt..........

we got quiet a few designs boards made............

I missed a pic of Miss Jules project but she was busy on a lovely bright quilt.........

it has not rained again today except a few misty showers not really registering anything in the rain gauge.............it looked pretty bleak when they left............

it's a bit cool with the wind though...............but it's been a perfect weekend to be shut inside the Chookshed ............and for anyone on the east coast of Australia perfect to stay home indoors..............there had been massive rain in a huge area and the safest driest place to be is at home..............

all the extra machines are gone....the table looked very bare..........

but the upside I soon filled it up with my next block to piece..........

I'll leave you with one of my favourite pics from the weekend.........we took this one before Miss Jules arrived......Princess Kate Cate is the selfie Queen

I'll try and get around some of your blogs tonight or tomorrow........if you have been sewing with us but not linked up the linky post is here.........

thanks everyone for joining the fun..........lets see if I can get my quilt finished tonight.............

Keeping the love of blogging alive..... 

Chookyblue......