OPAM for March....

Have just returned from a few days in the Big Smoke in time to post my finishes for March OPAM...

I have made many small projects this month



Table Runners.....

Thread Catcher and Machine Mat....








Wall Hangings

          

 Helen's Easter Mug Rug for "The No Fuss Swap"....

and I made a Mug Rug for each Patch member that attended our "Stay at Home Retreat"....

Thank you Peg and Kris for keeping us all on track each month......

Must away and get organised for our Patch meeting...

Hugz  Maria :)

Lovely Longggggg FNSI

I had a lovely Easter weekend joining Wendy and the other ladies for a longggg FNSI over the weekend...
Wendy also designed a sweet Easter stitchery for those who joined in..


On Friday I first set up the machine to do some quilting on my A4A

then sorted through my stash and made 4 of the Splendid Sampler blocks on my little machine,

just need to do the embroidery on two blocks...


Saturday morning I was busy at the Markets selling raffle tickets for the Patch club and in the afternoon went out for a bit of block work.

This little guy was sitting on a branch till Lacy spotted him ( can you see him? ) then he ran off

and he must have hidden under here.... see Lacy's tail..

after dinner I put this Christmas Wall Hanging together

finished another Block for my EPP project, just needs to be stitched onto the background.

and did some stitching on this....

thank you Wendy for fun filled weekend of sewing and the cute Easter Stitchery... Will pop over to see what others have been doing over the next few days...


Hugz  Maria :)

Happy Easter and FNSI

       Wishing everyone a Happy and safe Easter break .... 

And maybe you may have some time to join Wendy for FNSI Easter Special... 

I am looking forward to catching up on some quilting that has been pinned and waiting for over two years...

    

Hope the Easter bunny leaves you lots of chocolate!

Hugz.  Maria. 🐣🌷🐇🌷🐇🐣

           

Fun Filled Weekend.

Some time ago our Patch Club decided to have a "Stay at Home Retreat" as not all our members can go to" Avalon" (a retreat some 5 hours away) . We had a lady do all the catering sew we could just sit and sew into the night, go home to bed and return after brekky to eat, chat and sew again..... to make it even nicer for me my DD2 drove up from Perth to sew along with us too...

We had the best time

enjoying a never ending supply of food

 and great company...








I am always amazed at how many different designs and fabrics we use....

Vicki made this gorgeous Dresden Quilt using her Dad's ties....

A beautiful memory quilt for her and the family....


Everyone had such a fabulous weekend we are going to do it again before our Triennial Hanging in October to work on our quilts.......

and yesterday I went into town and have a lovely morning visiting  my DD1, GS1, GD1, GGD2 and GGS1.. such a great way to top off a fabulous few days.....



Happy Stitching

Hugz Maria :)

No Fuss Swap No 1..

Last January the Tuesday Ladies , Helen, Sandi, Teresa and Norreen organized a No Fuss Easter Swap..

I was happy to join in and Helen was to send to me...Yah !!  this is the parcel that arrived but I was to wait till today to open it...

Helen made me a gorgeous Mug Rug,with beautiful stitchery and I love the bunny's fluffy tail... she popped in a sweet bag of little Lindt Bugs and Bees and a pretty floral FQ as well as a cute Easter Card... thank you sew much for my gifts Helen....Felt very spoilt....

Won't show you what I made for my partner as she hasn't posted it yet... Do hope she received my parcel on time...

I am looking forward to joining in for the next  No Fuss Swap.. You can also join in by popping over HERE..

Thank you to the ladies for organising this fun swap......

Happy Stitching..

Hugz Maria :)

My First 7 Blocks!

These are my first 7 blocks for the Splindid Sampler organised by Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson.  It is amazing how many folks have joined in from all over the world...there are as many varied fabrics and colours as there are folk participating and it great to see them all.

                                      

7 blocks completed , 93 to go...

Happy Stiching 

Hugz. Maria 😘

Piece Yourself Together...

I am joining Anthea for Piece Yourself Together this fortnight and hoping it will keep me on track to finish my EPP project... 

                                                          

This is the block I completed for this fortnight...

Happy Stitching.

Hugz. Maria 😘

Love FnwFs......

It's always sew nice to sit and sew along with my cyber friends for FnwFs. This week there were 32  joined in with Cheryll...

First I made blocks 5 and 6 of The Splendid Sampler...

then stitched block 13 of my EPP SAL onto the background.....

next I sandwiched and quilted an orphan block into a topper....

just love the "Fat Lady" in her bathers...LOL


worked on some secret sewing...

which I finished yesterday afternoon while I was at our club room with my lovely friend Jan who visits from Pinjarra....

Thank you Cheryll for keeping us on track...Will be popping over to see what others have done in the next few days...


Happy Stitching

Hugz  Maria :)