Hearts at Home

Started sewing down the binding on "Hearts at Home" earlier this week and finished off last night after the Basketball - Hawks played very scrappily and were lucky to win.

Lots of pretty colours in this quilt, designed by Chelsi Stratton.  I used loads of Bonnie and Camille fabrics

and asked Karen to quilt it with "Rainbow Hearts" - a favourite of mine.

A lovely weekend coming up - Miss ChaCha is visiting for two nights and tomorrow, along with Mum, we're going to visit Michael and Gulli.   Maybe some Christmas decorating before she goes home on Sunday and then we have another Hawks game late Sunday afternoon.

Sporting Weekend

Not a lot of sewing last week - finished sewing "Hearts at Home" together and it's ready to drop off for quilting

and a fair bit of time was spent cutting out "Vintage Holiday" fabrics to make two quilts.

Early Friday morning, Lynell, Robyn and I drove up to Homebush to the Invictus Games - it was a big day out.  Two sessions of wheelchair basketball followed by a session of athletics.  Was great to see the Aussies do so well.  Then on Saturday night we went to the Hawks game - a great win.

Jenni has requested a cot quilt for her best friend's new baby boy.  I bought some "Guess How Much I Love You" fabric - it is so very sweet.

I'm making "Bradley Street" again, mainly because it shows off the lovely prints in the fabric squares.

And last night the final stitches were sewn into the "O Happy Day" binding.

On Sunday afternoon Mum, Elizabeth and I went to see "A Star is Born".  This is the fourth version of the movie Mum has seen - she enjoyed it.  There was a lot I liked about the movie (the music is great) but I'm not as sold on the newer version as I was on the Streisand/Kristofferson version.

"Evita"

On 1 September 2017, Lynell, Robyn and I bought tickets to see Tina Arena starring in "Evita".  30 September 2018 we finally saw this magnificent show.  Tina is a superstar and it was a thrill to see her with the rest of the wonderful cast in the Opera House.

There wasn't heaps of sewing over the last couple of weeks - spent some time cutting out fabrics for "Hearts at Home", a log cabin quilt designed by Chelsi Stratton, with cute hearts at the centre of each block

and "Patchwork Sky", Thimble Blossoms design, mostly using Bonnie and Camille's "Vintage Holiday" fabrics.  Waiting on more fabrics to arrive next week to finish cutting out the rest of this quilt.

Met up with the stitching girls on Saturday afternoon - always fun to see what they're up to, and then had dinner with some dear friends.  This past weekend I worked on "Star Drops".

Yesterday the weather was too miserable to go outside, so now "Star Drops" blocks are all together.

Two borders have been added - the last borders will go on tonight and I'll take some more photos.

Next up will be some more baby boy quilts - Mum has requested two for newest great-grandbabies and Jenni's best friend had a baby boy on Friday.  So many baby boys being born lately.