Adventure continues.............

So when I landed I was whisked away from the airport to Miss Fiona's@ Bubz Rugz.............

She is just fabulous and we had a great time together..........

I enjoyed some great long walks in her area and found some lovely things to photograph along the way............

the plant above looked like 3 plants next to each other and thick and only short..........but great colours and look in the garden...........

gorgeous frangipanis flowering everywhere.......different colours too..............I stole a few from Fiona's garden actually Mr Bubz Rugz garden...........

Grevilleas...........

Spider lily? very delicate and pretty none the less..............

Even found some old cattle yards in my walk........old timber joins...........they don't make them like this any more............
I ended up walking 6kms around the suburbs...........felt a bit too flash walking on paths even............

 After all that walking I relaxed with some hand stitching and then moved onto my Churn Dash quilt..............I stole Fiona's design wall............

thanks for the loan of a machine Fiona............I had all but one seam left to join when I went out for the evening............

 Yep I gate crashed Friday night stitching..............

Kris @ Tag-along Teddies was there so great to catch up with her also...........I did some hand stitching and also pinned the last seam on the quilt.............

Straight after sewing I came home to Fiona's and joined the final seam and my churn dash is now finished..............OMG it is bigger then I thought............this is a queen bed I laid it out on.........I only added an extra row to one side and the bottom........

Oh well as I say bigger is better..........

Found these gorgeous gluten free cup cakes on a fete stall that I worked on while away too..............OMG they were amazing............

I wished I had pics of the others there........it was so pretty..........

After all that fun I had to pack up and leave the beautiful green Toowoomba and head home to a dry brown farm.............

Catch you later.............

Chookyblue.............

Another one bites the dust.......

Forcing my 10mins on each day has results..........as I have stayed inspired to get my top together............especially when you can see it coming together.......most days the 10mins turned into more...........

Started this one on the 1st.....finished the top this morning.......and it's only the 7th.......woohoo............

The blocks came from Googy Girls Traditional Nine Patch Swap..........

I posted about it here and here and here............that I could find..........

You can see Kerry's finished quilt from this swap at the bottom of this post.......

colour runs in the nine patches on the diagonal.........

I had a bundle of 1metre pieces that I cut into to make the filling blocks..........

gradually over the week it all came together..........

Its so exciting when you see this happening.........

And suddenly it was done...........

"Googys Nine Patch Quilt"...........

Ok onto another project.............that list is being smashed.............
maybe I can start a real new quilt..........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

No 7 Another one in a plastic box can't remember its name aka mystery box......

OK before Ruby Red Lips I pulled out what you called the Mystery box on the list..........Another Nundle retreat quilt..........this time only 2012......only 5 years old...............

white and bright this one.............three rows were joined in strips.............row 2 a work in progress............

Pattern is Hanky Panky by Abbey Lane

Fabrics Hello Luscious by Basic Grey

it's got lots of bias happening..........Oh my lordy beeeeeee............took longer for all the pinning.............

Clearly I had plans to add borders and compared to the older quilt I actually scribbled some notes down on paper..........

What do you think?????

Left or right............just bind with the green or add the borders on the right.............with the green binding..............

As is it is 60x72in........

Also I need to add some squares on the white patches but not sure if I will add them now or after quilting........Mine will be lots of he same fabrics in the blocks......I'm not adding the squares that are supposed to go in the centre of the blocks.........I love the big print blocks.............

OK must head to bed...........back to reality tomorrow but I sure have enjoyed my "nothing time"..........Gail calls it un time.......I call it nothing time as I want to do nothing for anyone...........have nothing planned..........do what I want, nanna nap if I want etc............easy time.........

6 quilt tops in 5 days................never been so productive ever........ok back to reality..........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue... . 

Ruby red lips.......

Yesterday the apprentice started playing with placement for this flannel..........

Bliss by Bonnie and Camille - such a bright fresh range of flannels.............

Started Nundle retreat 2011................it was a second quilt for the weekend..............I got two rows sewn together.........

there it stopped and got packed into a box.........

So the apprentice niece got it all on the wall...........

then she started sewing it together..............she did so well.......she joined all the blocks into rows and I helped joining the rows and let me tell you it was a struggle getting bumpy chenille and flannel thru the machine............

the chenille was a nightmare sewing wise but it adds great texture to the quilt with the flannel.............

One happy girl...........

now how to quilt it????

We added the narrow border of flannel to tame the red chenille edges...............

was a little challenging to take the photos as  it was windy outside............

It looked like a blood bath in the Chookshed with red everywhere............all cleaned up now and onto another project............

The mystery box no 7 i'll take some pics next and show you...............it's sort of done...........i'm undecided about the borders that I wanted but it did not have...............

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue........

Come on down no 3

No 3 pretty pink/pastals started life from a Fat 1/4 birthday swap.................clearly I asked to soft and pretty..........gorgeous fabrics I received............

Here are most of the fabrics when I received them.....good memories.......only a couple of the girls blog now...........

I just can't find the post with the blocks............I know I'll look in my blog book from 2009..........I know I was thinking of using pink chenille with the blocks..........ok looked and only found a post that showed a glimpse of them finished in June 2010 blocks were made and I took them on a retreat but clearly did nothing with them.......

this is what I started with today - blocks that needed to be squared off at 14.5in..........

DOES ANYONE KNOW THE BLOCK NAME?

I decided it needed sashing and cornerstones............

found that in the stash............I think it from Aster Manor...........

initially I was only adding sashing to the inside then the border but I decided it needed them all the way around too..............before the border...............

Love this border print............found it in the stash too..............

Needed another thin border of the cornerstone fabric before the final border..............

LOVE IT.............
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Needs a name..............help.........any ideas????

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Decided looking at all these old projects I sucked at putting details in quite a few of them........so it's a bit of a mystery what I was thinking at the time..............

there are scraps from cutting these blocks but no idea where they are...........lol.............

This was to post last night but I fell asleep while typing it.............
Anyway suns not up and I am in the chookshed......it's a beautiful cool moring which will not last long enough....36 today..........soon as I hit publish I will be baking Pie...........Blueberry pie to be exact..........it's coming along very well............wait til I well you how long it's been baking for.........scared myself............
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Anyone keen for a Fat 1/4 birthday swap..........Aussies only...........too expensive to send too many parcels  over seas........2 fat quarters only needed in the package............nothing else at all...........are you interested?????

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

Stop the press.......

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Crazy lady is out off control and gets 2nd quilt tops completed in 24 hours.......

Framed is done......

great colours must find the range name for you and me...........

Do you use Clover forked pins...............I love using them especially when joining rows..................the seam sits nicely and they are a fine pin...

Just love this pattern...........Framed by Bonnie and Camille.............

Will definitely be making this one again...........

OK that's enough shock for one day.......this body needs rest.............

nighty night..........

Catch you later............

Chookyblue.........fre

When push comes to shove.....

When push comes to shove maybe I should say gentle encouragement...........no actually she was talking whip cracking to keep me on task so lets leave it is was..........

I was laying on the lounge in the Chookshed looking at the design wall with bits  of a quilt on it................I text Kris @ Tag Along Teddies about a parcel.............the long and the short of it is she got my A%$#$#SE moving and I got motivated to sew..............I kept sending her photos of my progress to remain accountable........

The fabrics are from Washington Depot by Denyse Schmidt and I got mine at The Next Stitch ..............I used the Moda Love pattern that I have made previously and I love it as a quick effective design...........I didn't quite have the right size blocks as I wasn't using a layer cake so I cut everything 1/2inch smaller.............I think it will measure about 68x68in now.
So here is Christmas Star as named by Kris............
this is my second quilt using grey and surprise surprise I am really happy with the quilt........

So after all that sewing I was very motivated and pulled out Framed (my first grey quilt)..........I started this one back in June? God knows why I never got back to it..............Fairy Girl packed it up from the design wall when we were cleaning up the chookshed..............loving how this is coming together too and I'm running out to the Chookshed to get a little done before I head to work.............

Not sure whats wrong......boxing day my machines even did something unheard of.......never knew it was possible.......I actually mended 3 items.......inbetween my 4 nanna naps..........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....
PS after a 1000 texts back and forwards thanks heaps Kris but how is the pattern writing going?????

Belated Local quilt show............

This post is a few months over due............but I have a few of those to get to you still............they will happen...........

thanks for all the comments about the rain and the garden..........crossing fingers for more tomorrow and Friday..........I'm thinking more  likely Friday..........

Some pics from a small local quilt show that I went to........

lots of different colours and styles..........

this quilt is at least 30 plus years old an unfinished hexie quilt.............

one of my favourites..........

This one was made for a grand child.............

tried to show you this pic from the side to see the raised effects she created............

Not the best photo but she had come to pic it up from the display and opened it to show me...........

All the polar bears and penguins are raised...........

So cute and so soft........I am sure it will be well loved............

Another favourite...........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......