OPAM !!!!!!!

Well it's that time of the month we need to upload our photos of any finished projects for OPAM that the lovely ladies  Kris and Peg organise each month keep us on track .... Thanks heaps....

I made 12 Boomerang Bags

A Mickey Mouse Baby quilt to send to Jan Mac...

and as my DD and family loves "Halloween" I took the idea from two of Toni's patterns from Red Boot Company and made four place mats...

These Christmas Trees were made at our fun workshop earlier in the month....

 I also found a bag of Black and White tumbler blocks in my stash which I made into these....

Remember nearly four weeks ago one of these nasty fellows bite me on the legs....which have finally healed....

Well one of his buddies decided to nip my hand last Thursday...

I've decided to leave the leaf raking to Hubby..... Now I can spend more time to sew....

Happy Stitching

Hugz  Maria :)

FNSI for October..

After a few days in the big smoke I enjoyed doing some sewing for FNSI.

 I finished the second set of blocks for the Round-About Quilt Along with Melissa from Happy Quilting

and put the last stitches on my October Block for Holly Cottage Christmas SAL

Thank you Wendy for organising another nice night of stitching with you and other ladies for FNSI..
Will pop over to see what others have done....

Hugz  Maria :)

FNSI

I have just returned from a few days in the big smoke and I'm looking forward to a lovely evening of relaxing and sewing along with the Wendy and friends for another FNSI ...

















If you haven't signed up yet you can still do sew over HERE


Happy Stitching

Hugz  Maria :)

Saturday Again !!

Were did the week go ?????  I've been busy sewing and still raking...

As I enjoy making for the community on Monday I picked up a pile of Boomerang Bags , click on the link and read about them HERE

First I got all the handles sewn   

sew far I've made 7 and I'm waiting for the front label to sew on which is the pocket....

While I was raking up leaves on Tues an  "Inch Ant " bite me... Boy did it sting. You can see it's still sore today..




















Saw a big nest while raking this morning and I got right away from it.... once bitten twice shy !!!


Wednesday I spent a day in town and bought these...

                                                                                                 






 to make quilts to donate to kids...






This week I have finally finished the stitching on block 3 
















and 4 of  Lynette Anderson's "Seaside Town" Now to make the Snail Trail blocks and clam shells... 

hope to catch up with the "Roundabout Quilt-Along" blocks  and  the " Holly Cottage" block for this month over the weekend.......

what will you be doing ??????  Some stitching  ??

Hugz  Maria :)

Mystery Christmas Workshop... ( Lots of Photos)

For weeks all the ladies in our Patch Club have been waiting to do the Mystery Christmas workshop that the lovely Janine was doing for us....

After arriving and getting settled at our machines Janine handed out our kits, all cut and ready to sew but no pattern YET..  Sorry didn't get a photo as I was just too excited...

Inside were 13- 2/12" fabric strips , wadding and binding

Here Janine is showing us how to sew them together....




You can see we are all keen and are busy sewing..

when all the strips were sewn

it was time to sew them into pairs

                                                 

                                             








                                                 and then put the last one on

more joining 

 














 all done   

 

Finally we were given the templates and our Mystery was revealed.    Fabric Christmas Trees.....

                   



















Then we sewed the binding on

and hand stitched them together , before doing the final seam we popped in the fairy lights. Not an easy task ...

I made the tiny one out of scraps, wasn't in the pattern sew it doesn't have lights.......

I really love my fabric Christmas Trees and it was just the best day... Thanks heaps to Janine....


Happy Stitching

Hugz  Maria :)

FnwFs and Saturday too !!!

When I was going through my B/W stash to make the Disappearing 9 Patch quilt I came across this bag of pre cut Tumbling Blocks..
Thought it would be a great project to sew them together and see what I could make while sewing along with the lovely Cheryll and 25 other ladies for FnwFs

At midnight it was time to stop sewing and organise my supplies for our Christmas workshop the next day (Saturday).

After dinner yesterday I decided to sew along with my Northern Hemisphere friends and finish the Tumbler project...
This is what was made from the blocks,  a Table Runner, three place mats and five coasters..

Thanks again Cheryll for not one but two great nights sewing along with you and friends...


Here is a sneak peek of our Christmas Workshop...

Will do a long post with lots of photos to show you what we made at the Mystery Christmas Workshop. Was sew much fun...


Happy Stitching ..

Hugz  Maria :)

Don't forget to sign up for FnwFs.. we've been Busy !!

Not much sewing going on here as we've been busy raking, raking and raking........It's lovely to live on 5 acres but boy there's always something to keep us busy.....

This load is just from under one BIG gum tree, there's at least 50 + more on the block. Can you see my helper?

More piles ranked , will load them up after hubby empty s the trailer....









Sew I am really looking forward to a relaxing evening sewing along with Cheryll and friends for another FnwFs  tomorrow.... Yeh !!

Must go now as I hear the quad returning with the empty trailer.....

Happy Stitching

Hugz  Maria :)