CANCELLED!

there will be NO MARKET
this weekend!
(due to all the rain we have had again....grrrrrr)

Julz

the market people have rescheduled for October 23rd.

check out Sandi's blog...her parcel arrived today too!!!!
How cool is that????
Julz

Friends Swap update

the postie arrived and left this...

Yayy...from sunny QLD....

this beautifully wrapped box was inside...

inside the paper was this box....filled with these!

aren't they lovely....
kids in the background...
I want to open that one...can I?
Can I?
(no...wait please while I take photos
Why????
because!)

F= four FQs

R = rule cover (clever)
and in some lovely batiks
(some of my favs)

I=inspiration and indulgence
(the vovos have been claimed by Diva!)
don't have any of these mags...tonights reading I think, if I can wait that long!

E=embroidery threads...
gorgeous colours!
have some ideas for these colours

N=needlecase
(more yummy batiks!)
love the flower pots stitching...cute

D=drawstring bag
just love the butterfly fabric in this...
beautiful teddies stitchery...

now this one had me thinking???
S= Safron (name of pattern) and it needs sewing...clever huh?

and this is my loot all laid out being admired....
thank you for the lovely card with the beautiful saying inside...

THANK YOU SANDI....
love love love it all!
I thank you for gifting me such lovely things my friend!
(hope your parcel arrives today too..)

thank you to Khris for doing another wonderful swap....

Julz
(I'm off to have another look at my goodies...totally spoilt!)

stuff...

made a few of these....
will be on the website this week hopefully...
$15 plus PH if anyones interested...
great present idea!

and

this is my washing line this weekend...
bodies!
for Santas...for the market...

a few more hexies completed....
need to do more for the market (if there is some quiet time...let's hope not!)
OK back to the bodies...
Julz

Friends Swap

is on it's way to Sandi...
(ooops...forgot to take a photo of the parcel...just have to wait til Sandi has received and I'll show what I sent)

more hexies have been done...

supposed to be making Santas for the upcoming markets....
they are all cut out, fabric arrived quickly for the outfits and the bodies are still not stuffed!
just as well I'm taking a couple of days off next week...maybe they will get done after all....
got so many things I want to make...but think time is running short!!!!

this bundle of goodness arrived the other day...Santa fabric and lots of other lovelies...

Julz

SSCS 2011!

I'm excited!
Secret Santa Swap is on again...
thanks Chookyblue for doing it...you're a star!

I've started having a look at all the girls who are doing it this year...
Chookyblue has a list on her sidebar....
need to start stalking my partner...Oh and see what the others are up to!

My Friends Swap hosted by SewPrim Khris,
is almost finished and should be posted by the end of the week...
plenty of time before the 30th September...
I hope that Sandy likes what I send her...(I think she will)...

it's raining here today...yesterday and Sunday were about 28 degrees...big difference in temps
have a wonderful day!
Julz

another weekend bites the dust...

well not quite dust????
it's cold wet and miserable at times here this weekend...
we have had it all except snow and I wouldn't be surprised if there is some of that on the nearby hills either!
The sun is shining as I write this post, however it will probably be rain and hail by the time I'm finished...that's my weather for today....
glad I'm inside with the coonara roaring!

Been prepping these.....

these few done last night...cut out, just need to be glued...that's tonights job, so I have some to stitch during the week

these ones have the hexies on them ready to be cut out....

still drawing hexies on this pile!

and these fabrics are the last lots to be cut into when I get time....

I think I have pulled enough fabrics out of the stash to get my 140 hexie flowers with a few more leftover...there are some that will probably not make it into the quilt....colours are not right....

I have gone through most of my stash looking for suitable colours...OMG did I find some old, old, old fabrics...from when I first started quilting about 15 years ago!!!!! and yes some of them will be in the quilt...but I'm not telling you which ones.....
Julz

PS I have been madly stitching my Friends Swap items but they will not be shown on here as I know Sandi has been sneaking peeks....but I'm getting there...should be finished by the end of next week and posted way before the 30th!

updates....

what have we been up to???
one weeks holiday...
hijacked of course!
3 days at home...
mainly spent Spring cleaning the bloody house!
2 days in Bendigo with DH rellies...
Friday was supposed to go to Quilts in the Barn....no Bendigo it was!
Sunday.....
Fathers Day and Sunday market, teenages working, needed to be dropped off and picked up!

anyway...
look what I found for $10!
it's beautiful...no chips, cracks or crazing...it's perfect!

and last week I found this at one of the local Op Shops
$10 and it's perfect too!

Hexie progress under the tab at the top...

New Newsletter is up under tab at the top....

how was your week/weekend? Not hijacked I hope!
Julz