More of Campania

I took so many photos at Campanina on Saturday I thought I would share them a few at a time, as saturday was also Halloween the hall was decorated beautifully with quilts and halloween decorations, here are some of them...

This quilt is a design of Deidre's, it was in a Homespun magazine last year, it was great to see it close up.

And the day wouldn't have been complete without a few real life decorations, don't they look great. Tomorrow I'll show you Rosalie's projects, they are gorgeous.

Christmas gathering at Campania

What a wonderful weekend I have had. Yesterday I went to Campanina with my lovely friends Cathy, Meredith and Christine, The day was hosted by the Quilted Crow girls Leonie And Deidre. The guest designers were Leanne Beasley and Rosalie Quinlan. I was very excited to meet them, Rosie sat at our table for a chat and she was lovely,

These are Leanne's projects that she brought with her for her display, they are so sweet. I think I'll have to make a pincushion or three.

This was the project leanne designed for the day, I chose to do this one, its very pretty. I'll show you my version in a day or two, yes Cathy I have nearly finished. (And you thought I wouldn't, didn't you) Cathy is always teasing me about not finishing things.

I have many more photos to show you but I'll save them for tomorrow and I'll show you projects from Rosalie's new book, they are goegeous. Happy sewing to you all.

A couple of finishes

Its been another busy week, I have been working on my christams swaps and my stitches angel gifts, I have managed to finish a few things for me which is good. This is part of Rosalie Quinlan's pattern Little Patchwork Village, It is a sample for the shop, I only stithced 3. Only one more week until I meet Rosalie in person at Campanina, I can't wait.

This is a table runner I nade for a friend, I just need to quilt it now, I thought it turned out really nice.

I also finished another Lauras legacy mini quilt, this one is called Scrappy 4 patch, I just love reproduction fabrics.

Until next time, happy sewing to you all.

Lucky me

My lovely friend Jan who lives in the USA sent me these beautiful gifts for my birthday, the Halloween fabric is so sweet, and the Thimbleberries book is simply beautuful, Jan always sends me things she knows I will love. She also sent me a cute little scarecrow which I just realized wasn't in the photos, I'll have to take one to show you , he is so adorable.
I have been busy working on all my christmas swap gifts, I had 4 to make, 3 down one to go, On the weekend I plan on doing some sewing for me.

A lovely day off

It seems to strange having a day off from work on a Thursday, its show day here in Launceston and most of the shops and school close for the day. We took the boys to McDonalds for lunch which they thoroughly enjoyed then I spent the afternoon with my sewing machine. I made a table runner for my penfriend in the USA, I'll show a picture of that later on, I made 4 autumn themed postcards for my swap and then I sat for awhile and worked on my Sewing circle block which is the 1950's kitchen. This block was fun to do,

I thought I would show you a few more photos from the friendship sewing day I went to last Saturday, herer is everyone at their tables chatting and sewing.

I loved looking at the Dear jane quilt on display, those triangles sure do look hard but I'll be brave and try my best to make them properly.

I loved this idea of a Dear Jane friendship block quilt, each person made many blocks, signed the4m and sent them to each person in the group, I would love to do this but I don't know how to go about it, If anyone has some ideas please tell me.

Well my day of sewing is about to come to an end, I had better think about dinner for my hungry family, Happy sewing to you all.

Friendship day

Today I went to the Tasmanian Quilt guild friendship day, I had a lovely day of stitching, shopping and chatting to other likeminded quilters . The theme of the day was Spring and Dear Jane. I was very excited to see other Dear jane quilts as it has helped me to keep going with mine.

The lady who owns this quilt did a talk all about Jane Stickle and the history of her life and THE original quilt. It was very interesting.

Pauline was there from calicocrossroads with her shop, I bought a few pieces of fabric for my DJ Quilt. I had never met Pauline before so it was nice having a chat with her.

I took lots more photos so I'll share them tomorrow

Tadpoles and postcards

Yesterday I took the boys to find some tadpoles, I walk past this creek everyday going to work and I could hear the frogs so I thought surely there might be some tadpoles but alas... we couldn't find any, I think the water was too deep, maybe we'll try again next weekend. It wasn't a total waste of a day though I did get some good stitching done,

I am slowly getting my postcard quit together, I have 2 more to stitch then when I get my machine back from being serviced I'll be right to get sewing, I'm so happy with it so far, after having somany lovely friends stitch a card for me and write a messgae it has turned into a treasured friendship quilt. It reminds of how lucky I am to have such talented lovely friends.

While on the subject of post cards I wondered if anyone was interested in a fabric postcard swap with me, please leave a comment and we can work it out from there. I love to make postcards, they are fun and simple to make. Have a good week everyone.