Still sewing and stitching…..

I have done 5 blocks in the Stitch-A-Long with Chookyblue and am still way behind. But I will catch up.

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I have also done a couple of blocks for the BOMs I am doing on Our Craft Forum. I am enjoying doing these blocks as they are what others have chosen.

   

I am doing them in these colours for a reason. I think someone is going to love the finished quilt. Well ….let’s say….I hope they will love the finished quilt.

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The next lot of blocks are from a BOM a few of us are doing from Our Craft Forum and I am making them from the same fabrics but in each one they look different. Just goes to show the different lighting makes things look so different.

Got five blocks to go and then its putting them all together.

You know I still have a couple of other BOMs I have not finished yet. You would think I would get them done first before I started new ones. But I think that is a patchworker’s prerogative…to have several projects on the go at one time. There is no excuse for not having anything to do then. *grin*

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A couple of you remember your Mum and Grandmothers using the Rickets Blue cubes and also in bags and its great to hear your stories. The Rickets Blue was put into the final rinse for whites so that they didn’t yellow and were brighter.

Happy sewing everyone and hugs to all….

Sovereign Hill ……..

I thoroughly enjoyed looking around Sovereign Hill last week. It is just out of Ballarat in Victoria.

I loved the gold miners huts

and the simplicity of what they had for beds and would you believe there was also a hut with bunk beds in it? Loved it and I bet the kids would love it too…..for a weekend away.

Now that is what you call a very basic quilt….

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I loved it how the people who worked there were dressed in that era.

A Chinese woman…..

There were some really lovely little shops and I just loved browsing in them. I really do love ‘old’ stuff and if I could have brought it all home with me I would have.

This one was full of lollies (Candy for my American friends)

Lots of delightful things to tempt you in this one…

Even Rickets Blue cubes…..I wonder who knows what they are for ……I know because both my Grandmother and Mother used them every Monday before the new products came out.

I will show you more in the next post I do……

If you get the chance to go there then do…its fabulous!

Hugs to All…..