Catching Up

Over the last months I've fallen behind with our on-line group's Mystery BOM, so I thought this weekend was a good opportunity to catch up.

Block 4

Block5

Block6

We saw "Mental" yesterday afternoon.  Laughed till we cried many times during the movie although there's some really bad language and a couple of quite gross scenes.  The actors are outstanding.  Liev Schreiber's Australian accent is SO good.

A Bit of Sewing

This weekend I've been catching up on the on-line group's Mystery BOM.

Block 1 was made a couple of months ago.

Mystery BOM Block 1

I made Block 2

Mystery BOM Block2

and Block 3 yesterday.

Mystery BOM Block3

No machine sewing during the work week but I did manage ten minutes of stitching one lunchtime.  I've been doing some knitting at while watching tv at night.  The back jacket is almost finished.

and I've started Michael's jumper.

This wool is really quick to knit - 14 ply.  Love it.

Miserable weather this weekend.  Mum and I are going for a drive to Thirroul to have a wander around the shops.

Back to our regular scheduled programming ...

Miserable weather here today after a beautiful couple of days.  Had lunch with The Schoolgirls yesterday at a garden centre in Heathcote - great little cafe.

Excellent cutting out day today.  Background blocks for machine embroidered clown alphabet - these have circles vliesofixed onto the back to cut out tonight while watching 'Waking the Dead' - the cut out circles will be used for another quilt.

Another "Floral Bouquet" - this one in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Pieces ready to make small bowtie blocks:

Sample Bow Tie Block 4" sq finished

There are over 100 different Fig Tree fabrics in the bow tie blocks - think it's a bit embarrassing to admit that I have so many Fig Tree fabrics.  Some are the very last pieces.

The next instalment of our on-line group's mystery block is together.  Very unsure of the colours I've used but I'll wait till a few more blocks have been made before deciding if anything needs changing.

While Diann was down here we shopped a little bit; we didn't go to one fabric shop but I did visit my favourite shop and this cardigan was 20% off the reduced price, so it was telling me to bring it home.

Back to Sydney tomorrow with my friend, Barbara, to pick up my new glasses and maybe visit Peters of Kensington.

One Sleep ...

... until The Big Day.  Heading off to Sydney this morning to spend the day with our boy - not too sure what kind of shape he's in after his big day/night out (I hope his daddy looked after him).  Peta is spending today doing the last of the flowers and later this afternoon we'll move all the flowers to the reception venue.

Here are a couple of photos from the night-time hens party:

The Harijuku Girls

 

The embroidery machine has been chugging away during the last few weeks and the clown alphabet and numbers are done.  I have plans for these little fellows.

Last night I got around to finishing off the first instalment of our on-line group's mystery BOM.

Think I'm going to like this quilt.  I was hoping to make it all from stash but got it into my head that I wanted a black/white spot in the mix and, of course, didn't have any pieces large enough to make a pinwheel so I bought a f/q when I was out the other week - would have bought more but that was the last in the shop.

I'll be back soon - we have some VIP guests staying with us next week, so we're having a little holiday.

And Now for Something Completely Different ...

A friend told me about a website she found that designs/sells very funky, extreme machine embroidery designs.  The designs are definitely not everyone's taste but are very popular with the "young 'uns".  Jenni bought a few and has started stitching them out on the embroidery machine.

This design takes over 3-1/2 hours to stitch out

By the end of the night Jenni had made a cushion to give to her friend as a housewarming present.

Meanwhile, I didn't do any quilting - I sewed a few of my pinwheels together for our on-line group's mystery BOM

and played with some pretty fabrics that I'd cut up some time last year.

Mini version of Camille Roskelley's "Dream Big"

Bec had sent me a few honey bun strips of "Spring Magic" by April Cornell and I added a couple of pretties from my stash.  Not sure what size this little quilt will end up - that will depend on when I run out of these fabrics.  I have more of the Lake House pearlised white spot and the pale peach that I may use for borders.

Looks like the rain has gone for a while - beautiful weekend weather here.