Finish for FNSI Sept 2019

For FNSI  with Wendy and friends it was nice to sit and get the quilting done on my Land Down Under by Toni Alexander .

I got it finished binding as well...

Thank you Wendy for our organising  FNSI again... I will visit others HERE ...

Must away now and get back to some quilting...

Happy Stitching

Hugs  Maria 😊

FNSI for Sept......

This Friday will be the third Friday of the month sew time to pop over to the lovely Wendy and sign up for FNSI..... I always enjoy my time crafting with Wendy  and visiting others to see what they've been working on..

I'll be busy trying to finish quilting my Land Down Under Quilt .  I scorched the bottom border when I decided I needed to press it before quilting the Flying Geese...

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! not happy Jan as I had to unpick it and then cut and sew on the new border.......

All done now and ready to get on with the quilting....

What will you be working on over the weekend ??????

Must away now and do some boring food shopping...

Happy stitching 

Hugs  Maria 😊

The week

has flown by again and it's only four weeks to the Quilt Hanging. Hope to have both the MSW and Down Under Quilt done.  I'm still busy quilting MSW but did complete the Down Under Flimsy and it's ready to sandwich and pin, maybe later today.

but first I had to PUSH mow the grass around the house....

All done, time for a coffee break before doing the housework ......

Must away and get started  😒

Happy Stitching 

Hugs Maria 😊

FnwFs and Journey Home

It was lovely to sit and stitch along with the ladies for FnwFs Friday evening..  As I still have two projects to finish for our Quilt Hanging it was great to do some work on both as  I have my two machines set up..

The little Janome for straight stitching to attach the second flying geese border to my "Land Down Under"

one more small border and then ready to sandwich..

The Bernina for quilting,

I did a lot of ditching on My Small World before going to bed....

Don;t forget to pop over HERE to see what the ladies  have done....
Thank you Cheryll for putting up the linky even though in are across the other side of the world..

Now onto the rest of our Journey....

After leaving Bunbury we went to Busselton to ride the train along the lonnnnggggggggest jetty...
Some thing that was on my bucket list...

Can you see the end of the Jetty way in the distance?




















then onto Nannup overnight , the little main street was lined with a beautiful display of Tulips .

Lacy doesn't like her photo taken...

We strolled up and down the street and had a coffee here...

In the morning we packed up after brekkie and on the road again stopping overnight in Brookton before the rest of the journey home through driving rain.. Only wish it would go over to the other side of Aussie too!

On our trip we did see lots of beautiful scenery

Forests of tall trees 

Fields of Canola and Wheat

and ofcourse Sheep as far as the eye can see..

I also managed to sew these

So even though our holiday was cut short we did see a lot and enjoyed our time away...

Must away now as the washing machine is beeping....

Happy stitching 😊

Hugs Maria  

Quick Trip Part 1 and Sign up for FnwFs..

After my retreat hubby and I decided to pack up the van and do a trip down the South of our State...
We got as far as Bunbury and had two sunny days before the rough weather come in... It was windy,  poured rain and freezing.. Our dear little old van ( she's a 1977 Model )  sprung a few leaks so we decided to head home.
We were pleased to have visited a few sights , first the Dolphin Discovery Centre,

Love their Lighthouse...

and visited this huge lookout, thousands of steps....

and drove to "Gnomesville" ... Many years ago someone put a Gnome there and over the years folk from all over have added to it...There are Gnomes as far as you can see..

I took PUD a gnome I painted many years ago to join all the others...

In the evenings I glued some hexies         

Which I stitched in the car while navigating for hubby..

Thats it for now and don't forget that it's to sign up for FnwFs.. Even though Cheryll is away she still kindly puts up her linky for us to enjoy our FnwFs  so don't forget to pop over HERE to sign up..

Must away to get ready for Building Better Bones exercise class. 😒

Happy Stitching

Hugs Maria  😊

OPAM August 2019

Another month's flown by and it's time to post our finishes for OPAM organised by the lovely Kris... She really keeps me motivated to get my projects finished to post each month... Thanks heaps Kris..

I made 5 placemats and I do hope to have the other three done for next month...














Iron Caddy.....

Quilt of Love...

                  30 shields for Days for Girls
                     and my Scrappy Sheep...

 and my Scrappy Sheep....

Happy  Stitching..

Hugs   Maria  😊

Retreat No2..

All the ladies worked very hard over the retreat weekend.. we all had projects that need to be finished for our Quilt Hanging in October 2019..  Here are some of the amazing work ....

This is our dear 92 year old member Val. She loves to work on Hexies and has made some amazing quilts...Over the last two days she also put a flimsy together but it was packed away sew didn't get a photo....

Oh! This is how far I got with my Land Down Under ... First border done and I spent the rest of the day making more GEESE. I wanted a change sew worked on some Birthday Bunting....

Must away and make a cuppa......

Happy Stitching 

Hugs  Maria 😊