a great day and bargains.......

Today I had to take kids on a school excursion...............it was raining when we left............another 12mls of rain today............things are wet now......a muddy drive...slipping here and there (appreciate your sealed roads).......nothing running to fill some of our dams yet but the ground is wet..............yippee...........now to grow..............waiting waiting...........

Anyway back to the subject I got to meet up with a old blog friend while I was there.........we spent hours together which was great since we had not caught up for 2.5yrs.......it was just like yesterday...........

Of course we had to check out the fabric shop.............it was great.........20% off all the quilting fabrics.....a few bits of French General.........and I got 40% off the French General layer cake.....woo hoo........should I tell you she had 2 more there...........email me for details if you want to get one.......the shop isn't online.....yet....

What a great day......4-5hrs hrs in a car with 6 x girls was fun...........loud music/singing, dance competitons (sitting in carseat belts), constant chatter.....I sure wasn't going to fall asleep driving........lol

Catch you later
Chookyblue

soft pretty flannels.........

Much prettier then in this photo........

about 60x70in...........this shaggy quilt is for Little Chicken.......she probably thinks I will never get it done.........

surprise Little Chicken...........it actually got delivered to her today............
i'm just waiting to see what she has to say...........

this is more like the colours................all ready to be snipped...........

the range is "Cute as a Button" by RJ Fabrics.........

Remember I got these scissors (Birch) "Heirloom Rag Scissors" from Cottage on the Hill

It was Mr Chooky's present from GIDTC.........he snipped the whole quilt in no time and no complaints of tennis elbow once he was done................so much easier then normal scissors.............

It's been a long weekend here and after a glorious warm June long weekend (usually wet and freezing) today we have had more rain..........another 13mls which is wonderul and more is forecast this week.........yippee the grass can grow for the sheep and cows.......busy couple of days coming up....... 

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

Chookyblue

Death of a laptop.....

Oh bugger.....

Borrowing Fairy Girls new iPad she saved up and brought......I much prefer my laptop.....
Had a nice day out sewing with a new to me group....Kerry was teaching a class so I joined them ( doing my own thing)

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

a foggy drive..............

 While i was off one day we were driving very early......see the inversion line in the fog.....cool hey....we drove just under it.....

The sun trying to shine thru.....

It was very eerie but so cool to see......

The computer is in the Drs.....taking to long so a bit worried about that......hope it is ok......

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

Chookyblue

bit of a wrap up..........

The weekend before last I was driving along turned a bend in the road OMG look at the moon I immediately thought of Leanne - The Stitching Room - we often send moon pics to each other........the moon was big and stunning..........the picture doesn't do it justice..........

this was the view behind me.........

With the Googy Girl having a stitching weekend with me I HAD to get my April 9-patch blocks finished.........

The girls made sure I got the May ones done..........Googy Girl must have worded them up to keep an eye on me to make sure I got these done...........

They also helped get binding on The Finisher's quilt...........

Peg and Dale got into the bubbles then  - too much work..................

"The mountain girl" - new to the Chookshed got the borders on this quilt...........

I had such a great time with the Googy Girl........so please she came for the weekend sleepover...........she really boosted my mood.............sewing with friends sure is a special medicine..........if we could bottle it up and sell it we would be very rich............I do hope you come again soon Googy Girl............maybe next time we can work on a quilt together for you

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onto the weekend just gone.............The Super Fast Finisher was only coming for coffee then she went home and got this fabric kit for a Twirly Bird Quilt.....she used my 60 deg ruler to cut it up.........

didn't take very long at all..........

I am so tempted to make one of these quilts...........

The Fast Finisher was working on her binding...........

 a jelly roll quilt..........and from one of the jelly roll books the pattern Hidden Stars?.............

Another friend is working on this quilt..........love what she has done so far...........

More to show soon.........

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

Chookyblue

60 degrees of fun.........

wow so where do I start..............firstly last night when i went to bed we had 2mls of rain............this morning  23mls..........and a funny day today with sun one minute and a misty shower the next..........1ml of rain....a lovely day........

I was pretty miserable when I did my last post and with a serious change in the weather during the month and a few small showers - not enough to do much but with this on top will get something growing.........lets hope the next fall is very close............the weather change hadn't brought much rain but atleast the same weather patterns that had been coming thru with NO rain had changed.......and I am loving the cooler weather..........summer seemed to go on for ever...........

thanks for your emails/comments taking my break.......even the lurker in SE Qld who emailed me (hi)........thanks your caring is appreciated.....getting me back here......

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I got a good injection of fun and friendship last weekend and again this weekend so i'm feeling pretty good...............more on last weekend next post...........

But last weekend the Googy Girl and I started this quilt......i've had a 60deg ruler for a little while and wanting to make something...........so last weekend I cut into some Denyse Schmidt Spotlight range

this I think should all be from "Picnic and Fairground"........

as we started to play we were busting to put blocks up onto the design wall.........

pinwheels......

hexagons.....

when Googy Girl left some rows were joined........

today I got the rest of it together.........

ta da........ "60 deg's of fun"

hope you like it Googy Girl and thanks for the fun..........

love these fabrics........

more soon........

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

Chookyblue

1st birthday celebrations...........

Can't miss posting today..........

My sewing space affectionately called the "Chookshed" is one today..........

I didn't have time to make a cake before the girls came over this morning and I would have made scones but one of the girls was bring some date ones so my next quicky recipe - ANZAC biscuits.......

And a candle to make the "chookshed" smell nice...........

a sanity saving space that I have been able to enjoy with my sewing friends.......thanks for a wonderful day girls.........so pleased you could join me today......of course we popped a bottle of bubbles too to celebrate at lunch time too........

I'll be back again soon I promise........

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

Chookyblue
PS the mood has improved but more about that tomorrow..............

hhhmmmm.....

that's about how i feel.......the glass is still looking very empty........this is the pile of bugs, moths and dust I swept up on part of the front verendah...........the bugs are driving me nuts.........the moths only usually get bad when it is going to rain............they are so confused...........the dust is terrible............

world war broke out on the weekend though when I saw a mouse in the house and I reset all my traps and caught 3 so far..........nothing today so lets hope that is it........if I had more mice "that could be the straw that breaks the camels back"...

the nights have got cooler and the days are up and down a bit......last week was still pretty warm..........around 29-30degC during the days but a bit cooler this week around 25max

the paddocks are getting barer............some worse then others............very quickly heading back to feeding sheep and cattle........everyone is talking "drought" and a long dry winter.....at the end of the month I will be have to sell some cows.......

shearing was delayed so only just finished today....

....lucky I was pretty much not needed at all......one good thing......

my mind is thinking about way to many things and I am struggling to achieve anything.............I have some posts I could do but just can't get it together so i'll just say bye for now and I will return when we get a good fall of rain unless something wonderful happens here............

thanks to everyone for your comments on my last post.............I haven't replied sorry - just not in the groove..........so don't worry about commenting here on this post..........

See you when it rains.........that could be awhile.........

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

Chookyblue