Month: December 2007

Well, another Christmas over and it’s time to relax and enjoy the holidays. We had a really nice and relaxing day with my family, the weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold! We had yummy food and not too much of it. my neice made these cupcakes and they tasted as nice as they looked. My mum gave me this quilt calendar, it’s a day by day one with lots of patterns, think I’ll be just looking at these for now, I will need to find some extra time if I want to start making them! the next few weeks will be spent catching up on some ufos from the last couple of years, doing a couple of jigsaws, watching movies and then camping for 6 days before school returns and also finishing my Tassie quilt!

so to all who are having a long holiday like me, I hope it is a fun filled one.

Be back soon!!!

Cheers

Gail

we had our "floosies" breakup at Ramonas house on Wed night with lots of yummy food and yummy drink and fun!

you can see I have been busy baking…a bit naughty but they are very nice…

and some yummy dip with fresh vegies.

we each received a present here is Leanne with the gorgeous bag that Ramona made.

and Bev received Rosies gorgeous angel.

aren’t we lucky to have such good friends!!!

Cheers

Gail xx

I made these sacks for the boys a while ago now and thought I would share them with you. I used to do heaps of cross stitch when Jarrod was born and so once you do one you need to do all. I have also done them for all my neices and nephews (little William will get one next year!). Santa somehow manages to fill them up with lots of chocolate and lollies (enough to last the year but they are lucky to last until boxing day!)

I must say that patchwork and stitching is a lot quicker!! LOL

Merry Christmas!

Gail

and who is counting? I have just about finished my shopping, I have 1 more present to buy for my 13 yr old neice…mmmm….what do girls like? (having only boys I have no idea on what to get….thats where my sister comes in handy…she always has good ideas…or maybe I should ask my 14 yr old neice!) oh…and also I will be making Mrs Perkins for my little nephew who is now 9 weeks old and doing really well. He has been transfered to a closer hospital and hopefully we can visit him on the weekend. Sadly he won’t be home for Christmas but we will all be thinking of him. (born 15 weeks prem in October)

now for an update on my Tassie quilt……more blocks are done and stitched, here are 2 alternate blocks with an applique block, I have stitched "lace" around the applique

 

here are some of the fabrics I am using….nice and summery don’t you think?

well off to pick up Liam from school…1 more day for him….will it ever end?

Merry Christmas to all

Gail xx

thought I had better keep you all up to date on how my quilt for Tassie is coming along. I have finished all the stitcheries and here are the rest:

all of these stitcheries have now been appliqued onto blocks ( i have stitched 4 of each) and I am playing around with the stitching that I want to do around them. Hopefully in the next couple of days I will show you how they have turned out!

Have you been stitching this week?

Cheers

Gail xx

Today was our break up at Foothills Fabric & Threads. We had a lovely lunch and nibbles and also did a Christmas swap. Glenda received my present

which is the centre block from my new pattern "Good Tidings", I just added a couple of borders and some prairie points. I also made one for Liam’s teacher….I hope she likes it!!

I was lucky to receive Dianne’s present:

and I think that we all enjoyed a lovely day ( I didn’t do any sewing!!) it was a nice time for a chat before things get too hectic!

Helen also finished her version of my pattern "believe in the magic", it is stunning!

So I hope that you are all enjoying any break ups that you are going to, enjoy any sewing that you are doing and relax over the Christmas break. Here in Aus, our kids are off school until the end of Jan, my 2 older boys have finished but Liam has still got another week to go. (maybe i can finish my shopping!) I still also have another birthday next week, my neice turns 13 on Tuesday so we will be going over for a birthday dinner.

Eat and be merry!!! until next time

Gail xx

Lucky me received my Secret Santa parcel on Friday (only 7 days after leaving the US). I came home from work and there was a lovely parcel all the way from Connecticut. I opened the box and looked at the beautiful parcel………and then I peeked…….and peeked some more……..and I knew that I wasn’t going to be very patient!!!!! So I opened it…..and how lucky am I???

this gorgeous blue bag filled with goodies

so a big thank you to Tracey who sent these goodies to me. And a big thank you to Chooky blue who organised over 80 people to join in.

My new quilt for Tassie is coming along nicely…here are a couple of the stitcheries that will feature on the quilt.. I have a few more to do and then I can put it all together. So if you are in Tassie and are interested in coming along check out the Country Quilter for all the details.

Bye for now!!

Gail xx

Thought I might share with you my lovely find on Sat morning. The house around the corner was having a garage sale, so I just had to stop (no.2 son grumbled but as I am the driver I get to stop!!!) and I am so glad I did. I picked up these old spools and the sewing box for $10……I was happy with that!!

I know that I really shouldn’t be buying any more things but………..

We have had a lot of rain here in Melbourne today, flooding the roads and the supermarket…..but it is very welcome!

I have also sent my Secret Santa swap present, I hope she receives it soon and I hope that she likes it!!! I won’t mention any names just yet as I am not sure if she is waiting until Christmas.

I have started work on my quilt for Tassie and will post some pics soon.

Have a great week

Cheers

Gail xx