Summer in the Country Blocks.

Posted on 14/10/2022 by Jan

I’ve been out of action for a while after a bad flare up of an old back injury, so not much has been happening here at all as I can’t sit for long or do much at all. I also have my glasses away getting a new prescription put into the frames, so I can’t really see to sew without them. But I’m getting more mobile each day and starting to feel much better.

Before I got laid up in bed I did complete two more of the blocks for Summer in the Country.

The first block is Star Flower.

and the next is Summer Kites

I won’t be able to sew until I get my glasses back so I don’t think much more will get done before we leave for Tasmania. I have been looking at doing some hand sewing projects to take with me and have ordered some beautiful Tilda fabrics for a quilt I have in mind.

Other than that not much is happening here, just lots of rain, lots of laying about. I am going to start decluttering some of the cupboards that I don’t need to bend down for this week and try and get a load to the op shop but I need to still take it steady. DH has been busy working around the yard, there is much to do but its nice starting to see progress.

RSC – Flimsy is done!

Posted on 25/09/2022 by Jan

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.

RSC – Joining up the blocks!

Posted on 04/09/2022 by Jan

There is something special about scrappy quilts. Taking all the small pieces, leftovers from other projects or fabrics that have been in the stash for years and turning them into a beautiful quilt. I never tire of looking at all the different scrap quilts that quilters make.

I’ve been busy sewing more blocks for my RSC Carolina Chain quilt as I only had about half the number I need. This morning I started joining the small blocks together into larger four patches and I am so happy with how it’s looking.

I want to get all of the large four patch blocks done this month so I know I’ll be spending a lot of time this week at the sewing machine making more smaller blocks. Then next month I should be able to complete the top. My sewing table is busy!