Lots of excitement at Tassie

Yes we had lots of laughs and excitement and it was so good to catch up with some really lovely friends. Tassie is a really lovely place and very pretty. I think I could live there one day.

Our Stitching In Tassie day was a fabulous day with 21 of us all joining in on this laughter and there was lots of new techniques to learn. We all had a blast!

There was 6 of us who showed 15 ladies these new techniques and shared lots of laughs.

This is us 6 tutors.

Helen, Fee, Jo, me, Dawn and Joy. Fee has lots of pics to show more of what we all got up to over the weekend.

This is my table I had set up with my projects and patterns…

I released a new pattern for all the ladies ……A lovely table centre mat and its called

Around & Around We Go.

We went to a fabulous bakery shop and had morning tea in between shopping at quilt shops…..I just had to have this delectable cake…..oh it was just the yummiest!

When we come out we discovered a little shop right next door….. I just couldn’t resist this very cute little green with white spots birdie.

and this little green chook…..They both had to come home with me….

We are going to have it in Adelaide next year so keep an eye on Dawn’s blog for dates so you can plan for it.

Hugs to all……

An old special sewing machine.

This is the cabinet the sewing machine comes in. It’s a treadle sewing machine. Sorry but the pic is a bit blurry.

I showed you special things I was lucky enough to receive from my Dear Old Aunt in the previous post and now I want to show you the sewing machine I was lucky enough to receive as well. Isn’t the design on it special?

This is so beautiful. It’s made in Germany which was amazing.

Another thing that amazed me was the bobbin holder and bobbin. I have never seen one like this before. The bobbin is a long skinny thing. After looking on the internet I found quite a few like it, so its not a rare thing. But mind you they aren't cheap either. EBay were selling them for around $20.00 each!

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I have been playing with all my scraps too. Thanks to Joy who showed us her blocks she was making from this fabulous tutorial, by Quiltville’s® Bonnie K Hunter, I just loved the blocks and had to use up my scraps. I am really pleased with the end result.

It’s big enough for my table and that is a good thing.

I even had fun with machine quilting it with a big all over ‘swoopy, squiggly’ design.

I now have two less tubs in my sewing area as these are now empty of scraps. Gotta love that! :)

Well…..it’s now 4 sleeps before I hop in the plane and jet my way down south to Tasmania for our Stitchers weekend.

I am really looking forward to meeting some new ladies who I have been chatting to via blogs and Facebook and emails. Plus I get to spend time with 3 gorgeous ladies who are very dear to me :) I can hardly wait…..I have my pj’s packed!! Ok ok….its a start at least :)

I don’t know if I will do a blog post before I go to Tassie and so I will catch up with you all when I come back.

Hugs to all…..

Love my Dear Old Aunt

There comes a time in your life when ‘things’ are just not wanted or needed anymore.

I was thinking that all the things I treasure from what were my Mum’s and my other special people in my life will all be just ‘things’ once I am gone. They are very special to me but to anyone else they are just ‘things’. Too sad.

My Dear Old Aunt of 96 years young is now in a nursing home because that is where her immediate family decided its best for her. She can hardly move and forgets a lot. Her house needed to be cleaned out and I was asked if I wanted anything of hers.

I went to her house with a heavy heart because I know all the ‘things’ in there were treasured by my Dear Old Aunt. They aren’t anything valuable but they are lovely and as none of the other immediate family wanted these items I grabbed them.

I fell in love with these Pink and White Polka Dotted Salt and Pepper shakers and these little white ones as well.

My Dear Old Aunt treasured these little bowls because they were in the glass front cupboard that she had in her lounge to house all her things she loved and thought were special.

I love this little apple bowl and when I have people over for scones and jam, I will put jam in it for them to have jam from.

and this delightful capsicum bowl will be great to have my Tomato Relish that I made last month.

 

They aren’t valuable things but to me they remind me of my Dear Old Aunt.

She had several vintage sheets packed away too and after seeing people in blog land at how proud they were to find some in the op-shops, I knew I had to bring them home too.

I love them and might make a quilt from them one day…..might just leave them stacked up and just look at them too.

Thanks dear Auntie…..I love you and miss seeing you at your house.

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It would have been my son Dylan’s birthday tomorrow…..he would have been 36 years old.

Happy Birthday Dylan….I love you and miss you lots.

Hugs to all……

I have been MIA but busy…..

I have been busy just I haven't been blogging much and haven’t posted for over a week!! My goodness how time flies. That seems to be all what I say lately….How time flies!!

Anyway, I have been sewing a few things and writing up patterns ……..

and I have started to pack my case as its not long now until the Stitching weekend in Tassie is here.

This is a bit of what I have been sewing…..I can’t show you proper pictures as these are for Stitching in Tassie.

and these

 

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I have been poking my nose into the Op-shops a bit lately too….Love old doily's and these ones I am going to cut up and sew into my Framed Hexagons that I am doing all white.

I have more but haven't taken any photos of them yet. I have just finished washing and ironing them. Next step is to cut them up to fit the Hexagon shape. As you can see by the ones above that there are some old stains on them and cutting around these will solve the problem of not having to soak them.

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Vignette Magazine Issue #6 by Leanne Beasley is due out the first week of March…..

You can pre-order it HERE.

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It’s back to the packing and cutting of fabric for the kits that I am having for the Stitching in Tassie weekend.

Busy busy busy……but all good.

Hugs to all…….