Wednesday, March 13, 2024

This past week has been all about......

I will begin at the beginning.     We are having an "open day" here in conjunction with Seniors Week and the Sales Manager asked if  I could make some flags to be mounted on dowel sticks which will then be attached to sandwich boards that will placed throughout the complex to guide visitors around to various properties for sale as well as showing the way to the waterfall walk and other lovely garden areas.    In the past they have used balloons but they are no longer allowed.

I was handed the various fabrics to be used (they would definitely have not been my choice as they were 100% polyester with no body and did nothing but slip and slide)


After doing lots of cutting, pinning and sewing


Here is the end result


All folded up and ready to hand over


I will take a photo on Saturday showing them as they are meant to be displayed.  

Also during the week our quilting group was invited by the local Council to take part in a Seniors Expo being held at one of the community halls nearby so myself along with 1 other were on duty to display (we were not demonstrating) quilts and other various items as well as handing out flyers about our group in the hope of attracting new members - our current member numbers are low and we would like to boost that count in order for the group to survive and grow.  

Beanies have still been happening in between other things. 


Hubs and I caught up with some friends for lunch at Randwick Golf club Malabar on a super sparkly day


Our new book club book is


Somewhere in the back of my mind I think that I have read this in the past but will start it as it was sometime ago if I have read it. 

I have just had an email informing me that I was one of the lucky prize winners in Project Quilting challenge 15.5 Wearables and the prize is my choice of a digital quilt pattern from Studio R Quilts.   I look forward to receiving it. 

Time to head off and organise dinner.   Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Friday, March 8, 2024

15.5 Project Quilting - Wearables

I can truthfully say that I did not have any "insider information" about this weeks challenge which is  Wearables.    It was a coincidence that I had nominated just last week for my Chookshed #4 challenge that I would be making 2 pairs of sleep pants.

Here is the first pair made and teamed with a t-shirt (which I did not make) in time for those cooler autumnal nights which will soon be with us.


Thanks Trish (taking over for Kim) for another fun challenge.    You can see more wearables here.  

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Chookshed Stitchers #4 challenge and FNwF

Both  happened to land on the one day so first up making a quick check of my challenge list it was revealed that #4 was garment making for myself and how fortunate that it is also the first of autumn as I needed to make myself some light weight sleep pants for the cooler nights ahead - although that maybe sometime off if the temperatures that we are having at the moment do not cool down.  I did have quite a bit of fabric left over from the summer nighties that I made previously which will be ideal for the sleep pants.   

Once that was all sorted it was onto finishing off putting the binding on another charity quilt that I have been working on and off during the course of the week. 

This one is for a girl.  

I made a start on our new book club book today and find it hard to think that anyone could survive such terrible treatment at the hands of other human beings, live to tell their story and go on to have a positive attitude.  

Thanks Deana for organising the Chookshed stitchers challenge and to Cheryll for having us around again last night for FNwF.

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Chookshed Stitchers Challenge #2 finish

 #2 on my challenge list was 2 reading cushions.  Front 

And back showing the envelope closing which I find much easier than putting in zips or doing buttonholes. 

While in the sewing room this audio book was keeping me company.

Thanks Deana for organising this fun challenge and I look forward to seeing which number comes up next.  Time to head on over here to see what the other challengers achieved.   

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Saturday, February 24, 2024

This week in the sewing room

Saw some quilting happening. 

What a big difference the wide throat on my new sewing machine makes when quilting - no more  wrestling with the bulkiness of the quilt and having to roll and push it through a small area.   

Then onto a finish.   The request was for 80 cm x 80 cm and I am pleased to say that it ended up being 81cm x 81cm so my maths worked out.  


Once that one was completed more 6" squares were cut for 4 more quilts.   They were just laid out in order to be photographed






And now sit in a pile on the edge of the sewing table waiting to be sewn together but before that happens I need to finish off my Chookshed challenge #2 which is due this week.   

Back soon and in the meantime 

 Happy sewing all

Saturday, February 17, 2024

FNSI

Was on again last night however I was able to make a start after lunch by pulling out some of the stash with prints suitable for childrens' quilts.  These are being donated to the local hospitals not for sale at the auxiliary stalls.    A lot of maths needed to be done as the size required is 80 cm x 80 cm and for someone who works in inches for quilting the tape measure needed to be consulted to convert and it was found that 80 cm equals 31 1/2" - not easy to work with.   Once lots of multiplying and dividing was done the squares were cut at 6 " with 25 of them are required so that when sewn together it ends up being 28" square and with borders of 2 1/2" it will  finish at 32".   Close enough  to 31 1/2" me thinks. 

After a  lot of rummaging through that pile these fabrics were pulled


Some cutting happened and a bit of playing around with the squares ended up with this result.  They are yet to be sewn together and the borders added.  
  

Next one  to be cut and sewn will be for a girl.

While the cutting board and rulers were out the second reading cushion cover that was not cut out last week was cut out ready for sewing up.


Thanks Wendy for organising us again.

Back soon with hopefully a couple of finishes and more of that pile of fabric cut out and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Saturday, February 10, 2024

FNwF

The intention was there to cut out the second reading cushion but that did not happen.


However a bit  of knitting while watching tv did take place.  This smaller sized beanie knits up in no time at all


Thanks Cheryll for organising us again last night.   

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all