Thursday 30 June 2022

June Furtle

 I sit here writing this as yet another dose of cak has hit the work fan, seriously August cannot come soon enough 😂
Anyway where were we? ah yes June! What has been happening in June?
I have been working on this, it’s Quiet play BOM - in the garden. I have finished all my blocks now just figuring out final layout, i think one below will be it, i was using up darker liberty fabrics, this will be one of my Alice Caroline quilt SOS this year.

I have been slowly picking away at my mandalas from Carina Craft Blog, these will go with my temperature embroideries from 2021. This was my last one!
I entered a quilt for the FOQ!
We went away for our first hotel stay in 2 years!!! How amazing and the weather was incredible.

Finally the weather up here is nice enough to sit outside, my garden has been such a sanctuary these past two years, love it.

But mostly THIS!!!!! As of 30th August i will be only stressed about which quilting pattern to do next. And after today it cant come soon enough!





Saturday 25 June 2022

Budsmam liberation weekend

I can post this now!!! now that the news about my retirement is out in the open i can post about my fantastic retirement weekend with the loveliest bunch of chums!

I started planning this last August, at that point i thought i was going to leave in may of this year, for a variety of reasons that got delayed and i will now leave in August. i was handing in my notice in May so we all sttill went ahead. I put together a group of lovely chums, chums who have helped me through the years.
What to Take? What to pack? Well I picked a rather special pattern from the Jenni Smith sewing with liberty book. I want to make the Discovery quilt in liberty. 
Oh my goodness I almost wept wheni saw this lovely entrance again. We were in what I like to call the ballroom, lovely airy spacious room.



I popped into the Cayzer room for a look.
I hadthe same bedroom as  before!
All setup waiting for chums to Arrive!

On the Friday night we had a show and tell! Here is lovely Sue with her lockdown makes. 


Cath with her makes!

View from bedroom window.

I was blown away by this, lovely lovelyJo bought us all these metal water bottles 🥰 made by her daughter Emily, @sovendebjorn how utterly amazing are these! 

Jo and Kim happily hand sewing.
Kim's utterly amazing Jack's chain.


Sheena working on her entry for FOQ.
Jo's tula pineapple quilt and my center medallion.

Happy busy sewing.











Cath got me a new panda chum! Po


Oh my word, they got me a cake! And how perfect is this!


I will have a  very happy retirement because I am blessed with such wonderful chums.