Finally completed the Dragonflies.

This little quilt sure has been bugging me. This was a quilt I started quite a long time ago just because I was not in a good frame of mind to start anything large as I have so many OFO's and my goal this year was to get lots of these completed. I have procrastinated over and over again to get the quilting done but struck barriers each time. It was time to put it away for a bit.

Wednesday I went to Amanda Daly's class and was so determined to get the quilting finished. All went well at class and Thursday I set myself the goal to finish the quilting and get the binding on.

Glad to say the dragonfly quilt is FINISHED.

Another Post.

Can you believe it..... 2 posts in one week. Just wanted to share what I have been doing recently, apart from finishing a lot of my UFO's. I have been quilting the dragonfly quilt I have stipple quilted the main section and around the borders have done a sort of swirl quilting design. Over the past few months I have been making these hexagons using old doilies I have either made myself some past years ago, collected from my Mum or picked up at various Op Shops. My friend Helen and I are also sharing doilies so we will have a lovely collection.

A close up of some of my doily hexagons.

Recently I started on these Cathedral Window blocks. I have really enjoyed doing these although time consuming to prepare I really love the way they look.

Parcel arrives

In all this very cold windy wet weather we have been having over this past week it was great to receive a parcel in the post. My pincushion base has arrived home safely after being to Melody in Victoria Australia, Dianne in Nova Scotia Canada, then onto Laura in Mino North Dekota and finally home again. I have enjoyed this venture with Fiona over at BubzRugz it has been a great experience and I am thrilled with my base. Now to make it into a beautiful pincushion. Some of the goodies Laura put in my parcel. Thank you Laura.

My quilt for Zoe is now completed and I gave it to her for her first birthday. I have not seen it on her bed as yet but I am sure it will look great and just finish of her room.

This is the label I put on the back. An old doily I picked up at the Op shop some time ago. They make great labels for quilts.

I made this little table decoration for Zoe's first birthday.

Proud Grandparents

A quick bragging post... Last night we visited the Hawksebury Show to see how GS Ryan did as he had entered three chooks and some eggs into the show. Well he did very well winning a First place 2 seconds and Highly commended.
These are his 2nd. place winning eggs. Looks very proud of himself I think.

This chook took out first place

And this was his 2nd. place card for the next chook

He also had a chook similar to this one that he got Highly Commended.

Where do the days go

I promise myself each day that I will update my blog but the day has ended and still no blogging. So today is the day before May ends.
I know this is a little late but I wanted to share this photo of my 2 oldest Grandchildren with their Grandfather and Great Grandfather at the recent Anzac Day Service. This was the first time Ryan has attended a service. He stood very proud even though it was very wet and ever so cold.
The weekend after Dh and I looked after these 2 whilst their parents went away to celebrate their 10th. wedding anniversary.

We had a great time with the kids.

And isn't it amazing what you let your Grandkids do whilst their parents are away. We did some cleaning up in the front garden so the 2 of them decided to help. I am not sure whether Ryan is trying to sweep his little sister away or trying to stop her from leaving home.

After crawling everywhere she needed a good hose down.

Last week I cut out all these squares from flannelet to make a little raggy cot quilt for the portable cot Zoe sleeps in when she is here each week

Yesterday I completed the stitching and got it washed and dried. These little quilts always feel so soft and cozy. I was pleased at how it turned out.

Another UFO out of the box. Yippeeeeeee. I picked this quilt up from the quilters on Saturday and have started to put the binding on. This quilt is for Zoes bed the last of all the things I have made for her room.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

I do a little bit of Easter decorating but only a little. I haven't been collecting Easter decor for long but am getting a few small pieces.

I made this bunny a few years back adapting a reindeer pattern for the bunny. She sits proudly on a pedestal at the bottom of the stairs with her little friend.

My DD gave me this cute rabbit candle just the other day. Very sweet.

I made this cutie on Monday and GD Kaitlyn scored this one for herself.

Lastly I had to make a special order of something crafty for my DH to give to his 2 work colleagues so I found this pattern from http://www.myrtleandeunice.com/ a little tricky at first but then again I am not a good one for reading patterns properly but I was happy at how they turned out considering I only had 24 hours notice.

Lastly I have finished the wool embroidery on Laura's pincushion. It will be winging its way to North Dakota very soon. I hope she likes the finished top.

Thanks to Fiona at Bubz Rugz for organising this great swap. My part is the blue heart with the red flower and purple spray flowers.

The yellow butterfly and little flying bugs and also the orange flowers along the edge.

Quilt top finished

The way it was originally designed. I am definitely not an arty type of quilter so this was a bit of a challenge for me and I have to say I like this one a whole lot better. This little quilt is an Amanda Daly design I have been attending classes with her for quite some time. Next week I hope she will be able to give me some quilting ideas to finish it off and not be another UFO. The close-up of the dragonflies these are raw edge applique.

Another UFO has found its way out of the box. I think these 9 blocks were started about 2 years ago and were a free BOM from Gail Pan Designs. I did finish all the blocks in that year but never got to put them into a wall hanging .

They are now pinned onto my design wall and today I am cutting out the borders.

BUSY BUSY

Yes time passes very quickly in this household. Looking after my newest grand baby is just wonderful she is such a treasure. Meal times are wonderful if only her Mum knew what I fed her some times. Here is little Zoe enjoying her Vegemite crust loves every bit of it and gets into the biggest mess.

My eldest Grand daughter lives with us and is also a treasure. I have been kept very busy over the past few weeks helping her with one of her school projects on "Gold". Last week I was making her an outfit for the Colonial school incursion. They were having a travelling show from the Australiana Village come visit the school and the children were asked to dress in old colonial dress.

How cute does she look? The little case Kaitlyn is holding is my Dad's original school case made by his father some 83 years ago. Kaitlyn felt very proud going off to school yesterday carrying her lunch in that little case.

A little bit of leisure as well. Last Sunday we took my beautiful parents on another adventure. This time we went to Palm Beach and caught the ferry across to Umina. A lovely day and the weather was wonderful.

This week I have tried real hard to get some stitching done but I didn't achieve much. I did however get this apron finished. I showed this in an earlier post it was all in pieces when I found it at my Mum's house during my Spring clean. I think that it would probably be at least 30 years old as are some of her other aprons as I can remember her always having one of these crossed stitched aprons almost every day.

The embroidery has been completed on my next Christmas stocking for Zoe. I am waiting on the velvet backing to arrive from The Crewel Goblin to completely finish this one.

Lastly on my design wall I have been slowly and I mean very slowly working on this little wall hanging and the more I looked at it the least I liked it. I took it along to class last night with out the side and bottom borders and am now working on the original design. When I started this I thought I would like to do something totally different to what I usually do but I have decided I am more of a traditionalist than an arty farty quilter.