playing.....

Recently I had an afternoon in the Chookshed.......

Did I sew anything no......

But I chatted, drank bubbles and ate nibbles after we helped finalise a friends quilt top layout......

Worked out the backing for a quilt....

had a visitor

who thought she needed to sew with us - cheeky Bridget.... 

and just enjoyed the pretty flowers to regroup to tackle another week of work.... 

But time with friends can rejuvenate you - thanks Jannimary and Miss Jules..... 

stay safe..... 

catch you later.... 

Chookyblue..... 

farm stuff......

I've got a new friend Tiny.... She really is so tiny so lets hope she survives. 

Spring is in the air and it's been lovely to open the house up and get the fresh air come thru....... 

Lambing has started and it's wonderful to have feed in the paddocks for the ewes lambing.... Being a bit later then usually joining the ewes due to the drought we delayed until we had some good rain......the weather is much nicer for the new lambs

I've sent a few quilts off to be quilted..... Let's hope Australia Post doesn't slow them down to much..... Postage and freight is pretty random at present..... Some quick some slow...... 

Stay safe..... 

Catch you later..... 

Chookyblue..... 

surprise.......

With a bit of rain recently we had a massive rainbow one afternoon.........it sure was beautiful......the country side is looking a picture at present.........and the golden yellow of the wild rape in full bloom is stunning........some of the other daisys are flowering now too.......i'll have to take some pics.........

to big to fit into the screen.......a double had started also.........

Recently I had a surprise.........Janice and Mick arrived and had the night with us.........I was gob smacked as I had no idea they were coming.........of course Miss Jules got to catch up with Janice too and here's a pic of Janice, Miss Jules and me.......

first visitors since Covid19 and its something that I miss.......

Just another one of the rape and the rainbow cause I love it.........

hope you found a warm spot this weekend if you are in south eastern Australia.......

I kept the wood fire churned up this weekend.....

Stay safe......

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue......

hand stitching.....

The other day the sky was looking pretty.........this is over some of the barley crop and then the clouds..........makes my heart sing.........

the advantage of being up early zoom sewing in the shed I got to watch the sunrise over the silo's.........

So what did I sew this time.........I worked on Blue Lanterns again.........

joined these 5 onto the side of the top........

started to join the section below to add to the top right side.........

Everytime I go onto zoom sewing I get very excited to see who i'm going to catch up with....

Its just a wonderful.....very easy conversation.........everyone working away and it's amazing what everyone achieves.........the only upside of Covid19 I can see we thought to try zoom sewing.....clearly i'm not the only one of us that needs this time to connect with like minded people.......

Below is a list of the girls who joined in this time..........a few of you have asked for the blog names etc so here it is.......its great to see you getting around and checking out the girls who are new to you and leaving comments and connecting after the sewing sessions..........

And I just have to do a little squeal of excitement when a couple of you have blogged again......after a big break.....its great to see what you have been sewing.......

USA Gail	Gail's Place	https://trailteach.blogspot.com/
USA Raedene	Thread on the Floor	http://threadonthefloor.blogspot.com/
USA Kathleen	Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm	https://roseprairiequilts.blogspot.com/
USA Denice	Denice's Day	http://weesied.blogspot.com/
USA Deana (and Deb)	Dream Worthy Quilts	http://dreamworthyquilts.blogspot.com/
Aus Annette	Jindi's Cottage	http://jindiscottage.blogspot.com/
Aus Jenny	Bird on the Border	http://birdontheborder.blogspot.com/
Aus Karen	Karen's Corner	http://pksmokey11.blogspot.com/
Aus Maria	Life on the Block	https://maria-lifeontheblock.blogspot.com/
Aus Julie	Simple Stitches	http://simplestitches1.blogspot.com/
Aus Jude	News From Jude	http://newsfromjude.blogspot.com/
Aus Sue	no blog
Aus Sue	Kiwikid's Page	https://kiwikidspage.blogspot.com/
Aus Susan (and friends)	Susan's Sewing Space	https://susans-sewing-space.blogspot.com/
Aus Jo	Jo's Blog	https://jobutterfield.blogspot.com/
Aus Cheryll	Gone Stitchin'	https://stitchingcubbyhole.blogspot.com/
Aus Al	no blog
Aus Janice	Jannimary	http://jannimary.blogspot.com/
Aus Lise	The Chocolate Cat	http://thechocolatecat.blogspot.com/
NZ Raewyn	Stitching Farmgirl	http://stitchingfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
NZ Clare	Craftlady in Kiwiland	https://craftladyinkiwiland.blogspot.com/
NZ Lou	Manxgirl Living & Crafting Down Under	https://loulee1.blogspot.com/
Can Holly	Nimble Thimble Stitchery-Do	http://nimblethimblestitcherydo.blogspot.com/
Can Norma	Silver Thimble	https://silverthimble.ca/blog/
Can Chris and Emily	Quilting at the Farm	https://holycowchris.blogspot.com/

If you are in SE Australia stay warm this weekend.........lots of low snow forecast in areas that rarely get snow too......and where I am I will get the freezing colds winds off the snow and they say it's going to be pretty windy for a few days..........

Stay Safe........

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

Chookyblue..........

zoom sewing....

let's see how much I can sew today......

Lot's on nice and early..... Or late afternoon for some....... Time does not matter when we are all together.......

Chilly start to the day for here... The heater is on heat today.....

Welcome to join in..... Just leave a comment here and I'll send the link.....

Catch you later.... 

Chookyblue..... 

Pop.....

To the mystery fairy....... Thankyou...... 

Survived another big week not quite as huge as the last one but not much less. Patches of when I would consider drinking all this at once...... But also that I made it thru the week.....

Slowly kicking goals but good to kick some.....Canned my weekend plans because and it was going to rain lots and so far we've had 2mls. Roads get too muddy for visitors to my place at times..... It's to late to redo tomorrow's plans now....... So whoever you are thankyou mystery person as I at least know you read here...... I'll stick one in the fridge and pop it zoom sewing with blogland on Sunday morning......

Can't see any border changes coming any time soon....... 

Covid 19 is now affecting the agriculture industry....... 

Stay safe.... 

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue...... 

zoom zoom.....

Hi Girls.........

Loving my sewing time with you.......

Everyones welcome so join in the fun.......

leave me a comment so I can send the link

So Sunday i'm going to sew again.....

6am until about 2pm Sunday 16th August.

For the rest of you scattered around the globe

New Zealand 8am Sunday

 Oslo 10pm Saturday

UK 9pm Saturday

New York 4pm Saturday

Michigan 3pm Saturday

Vancouver 1pm Saturday

hope i've got those times right.......

We all need some bright cheerieness in our lives...... 

Stay safe........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

playing with the layout with a photo.....

Playing around working out if things are placed right..... I did this before but goodness knows where the pics are at.... They had been grouped but what was supposed to go where???

Anyway I wanted to sew more of this and I was at a stand still till I did this.......

Hope you are all well.

My holidays got cancelled since we can't go thru Queensland now. When will I get to see my kidlet? 

So P%) _#=%ED off as we had 1 covid case back in March in our area. Probably only a couple in our region way back then also..... Punished by the happening in Victoria and Sydney.

So since I have no life maybe next weekend I'll zoom again since it's going to be wet again and I won't be able to have visitors for lunch either.....

I'll keep you posted..... 

It's a cool damp day drying the washing in front of the fire.... 

Have a lovely Sunday..... 

Stay safe

Catch you later

Chookyblue