I’ve been busily sewing up my RSC blocks since I last posted (and we had a week away) and I’m pleased to post that I’ve joined them all up.  I spent some time trying different layouts and decided I liked the pattern better not on point.

Heres how it looks on the bed…

I’m so happy with it and I loved making it. I want to add a border, possibly dark blue or yellow – or perhaps both, so I will think on that for a while.

I’ve also taken a bit of break from being online as we had another trip away for a week. Old work friends of mine from catch up ever few years and so a last minute get-together was arranged. I have missed the last few so it was just great to see everyone again. 

DH and I stayed on for a bit of holiday and visited lots of lovely beaches down the South Coast, walked for hours most days and then laid about enjoying the ocean view from our cabin on the beach in the evenings. 

Heres a few pics of our time away..

View from inside our cabin as the sun comes up

… and we just walked down this little track to get onto the beach…

We also did some travelling to a few different places,  countryside is SO green and there is water everywhere. This is at Tilba – the place where River Cottage Australia was filmed.

Tilba is a National Trust Village with lots of lovely old shops and pretty gardens. 

We bought some cheese, jams and chutneys from the Tilba Dairy and I can recommend them – very tasty and plenty of  gluten free products.

The fragrance from The Bath Patisserie was lovely & it was filled with all sorts of luxurious bath products so I picked up some lovely soap for myself.

While we were away Queen Elizabeth passed away. I remember watching her Christmas address every year as a kid, it was just part of our Christmas Day growing up, and singing God Save the Queen each week at assemblies. Each classroom had a picture of here above the blackboard so she was very much part of our lives as kids even though we live in Australia. I think she was a remarkable woman given that she was never meant to be Queen.

So we’re back home now until our next trip in November and I’m feeling ready to get more stuff decluttered. I want to get new carpet put down in the lounge room and give the bathroom a ‘refresh’ – so thats what I’ll be mostly working on as well and finishing up Summer in the Country before I start another quilt.

I’m off to catch up on my blog reading & linking up to SoScrappy  Quilting Patch and OhScrap.