Oh Happy Day Quilt finished.

So I'm in the midst of a big push to get a bunch of quilts finished. Yesterday I finished the OHD quilt. Despite how cutsie pie this quilt is, it was still fun to make. I must confess to loving the colour pink!






The appliqué needs to fuzzy up a bit more round the edges. Another round in the washing machine and dryer will help that.


My favourite bit is the turquoise backing with the pink binding. I do love those colours together. Although at the moment I love turquoise/teal with just about anything!


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In the garden again

I saw a little pin on Pinterest last night and just happened to have two empty bird cages lying around. As you do...






I cut some fine mesh for the bottom then lined the cage with hanging basket liners (also happened to be lying around!). Then I walked round my garden snipping bits here and there that I thought would look good.

Just as I finished them I realised that one would look really good just filled to the brim with baby's tears and what a pity I had just used them both up. Walking back inside and I spied something I bought at the flea market last weekend thinking I be able to use it somehow...


Perfect!!!


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Red quilt finished and hung!

My collection of quilts is getting out of control so I decided to hang a few of my favourites down the hall way.

I started with the red quilt that I have just got back from being quilted. I've sewed on the binding and hung it with a wooden rod.

I really like this quilt. The quilting process stretched the fabric and got rid of the ripples round the edge.














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Humpty Dumpty

Henry's birthday was today. He turned 7 and decided on a Humpty Dumpty cake (?!) Seeing as I was invited over for a bowl of soup at my very good friend I said I would take the makings of the cake with me and assemble it at her place. We made a great wall together, but sadly I left

Humpty at home in the fridge. 

Master Lamington Builders Ness and Catherine made a skillful lamington wall...

Once I got to Frankland I bought two new Humpty's from the shop and finished assembling 

the cake at the playground.

The broken Humpty nearly came with a MA15+ rating!

In order to make the humpty on top of the wall balance better, I cut the bottom of the egg off. I didn't think about the fact that it was a caramel filled egg.

When I went to get the cake out of the car I discovered that poor old Humpty knew 

what was coming and had crapped himself in fright!

Happy Birthday Henry!

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Sam

So Sam's room needed a repaint and seeing as he has to share his space with the toy/TV room for all the kids we decided to turn it into a bit of a perk for him by letting him choose the design. Our painter backpackers brought a special skill with them. Yeshe is an accomplished graffiti artist.  

 Sam wanted the colours red, light blue and dark blue, so we

 chose a feature wall of red behind his bed.

The remaining 3 walls were painted light and dark blue 

with a dividing white stripe.

 Next Yeshe came up with some prototypes for Sam to choose from.

 He chose mostly the top one, with a bit more letter clarity so you could see his 

name very clearly.

 Yeshe does this work with spray cans. First came the outline.

 Then he filled in the letters

 Finally he added some more details.

 Extra slime at Sam's request!

One very happy boy! (and one very naked boy!)

Sam with Yeshe on the left and Franz on the right.

Dam fun!

We went down to our neighbours this evening for a birthday party. They had a family member visiting who was turning 11 and we were invited for cake. After the celebration the kids took to the dam below there house with some cardboard boxes. This dam is very big and has a long drop over the back of it. The kids spent some time  sliding down it on cardboard.

After they tired of that they decided on a late afternoon swim.

Cold but fun!

Sewing updates

Having been scolded by a friend for my tardy entries, I thought I would pop in quickly and give an update. The dining room table is currently swamped under the contents of Sams bedroom. It has been stripped out to be painted. I found a small amount of space around the sewing maching to applique on the OHD letters.

 Finally that bit of the quilt is finished and I can move on to the back.

 The next exciting thing is that I picked up my red quilt from the quilters. The talented Jo Northcott from Albany WA has done a wonderful job on her long arm machine.

 Jo was great, I got on with her really well and will definately be taking the rest of my quilts to her!

 Jo joined the back for me and all I have left to do is sew on the binding in contrasting blue. I'm looking forward to this as I'm sure it will look amazing.

There you go Ness, I hope that gets you through at least one night feed!