Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Bits and Pieces

What wonderful weather we had at the Sunshine Coast for Easter......a great time to work in the garden, clean out out the garage, catch up with odd jobs and housework.......

This post is a bit short on photos this time..........on Friday afternoon we invited Rhonda and Hanno and Kerry over for drinks and nibbles as we have not seen them since our Australia Day bbq.......we also invited Sandra and our neighbours.....a great time had by all....I have so much Basil growing in the garden at the moment so I decided to have a go at making Pesto using walnuts.....yumo it was delicious with rice crackers and a couple of ales.....and sorry no photos.....Rhonda bought her new camera over but I don't think she ended up with any photos either....anyway...

On Saturday we got stuck into cleaning out the garage as we need to make some room to put a secondhand upright freezer that we hope to buy soon......we have a huge chest freezer that holds all of our surplus of dog and chook food....it works really well....but I find it too hard to get stuff out of it....anyway....Bardo's the charity store at Caloundra were very happy when we unloaded the car yesterday......it's amazing the stuff we keep and have not  used in 10yrs.......it's all gone now....

On Sunday we were invited to friends place for drinks in the afternoon.....unbeknown to me it was a surprise birthday party for me......and it was great......pink bubbly wine to celebrate, party hats, pink balloons, party lights, chocolate eggs everywhere, more wine, delicious food, homemade ice cream and to finish off a delicious cake......and I didn't take my camera so no photos....... 

So on Monday it was a quite day....phone calls from my family for my birthday.....I had a lovely morning in the studio working on my Spectrum Wheel of Life page and sorting out some hand work......hubby served breakfast for us on the verandra after he returned from taking photos of the sunrise at Caloundra......

So enough about me......last Thursday at the shop the ladies have been busy working on their projects....

Barb

Tania's Circle Game all finished

Leanne

Barb

the lovely Angela made us all these little Easter gifts......

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Easter for 2014........

Cathy

Monday, April 14, 2014

Monday ....again...

Well it's Monday morning again.....oh boy are the weeks flying by.....

Jens and I have been so busy constructing garden beds and building up soil and sorting out drains, moving turf and replanting in other areas of our back yard........I have just been out checking how it is all working after a night of drizzling rain......it looks a though there are still one or two things that need to be changed......I have also planted out nearly 50 Daylilys in the front yard last week...they seem to thrive in this area so lets hope they all take....only time will tell......

Apart from the garden I have been doing more charity quilt on the longarm and a couple of customer quilts.

I used a Pantograph to quilt this quilt for  Maria.... who made it in my class at the Laura May P 'n' Q shop
This is Jenny's quilt top from the same class 

and this is Virginia with her quilt that she ditched quilted on her machine


A friend came around the other day and quilted her Circle Game quilt on the Longarm.....

here is Tania freemotion quilting for the first time her quilt 

and here it is finished......

Another group of ladies have been busy making more blocks for their CG quilt.....

Jenny's blocks

?????'s block

Lorraine's block

Sandra's block

and here is Heather's all put together using the EPP method......just has the borders to go on now
There are another couple of ladies doing this class but I don't have any photos of their blocks......sorry June...Pam and Lyn.....

The ladies from my Thursday class have been doing an unreal job of our design your own Medallion quilt...... 
This is Angel's center with the first border

her is Libby's quilt with her second border on

and Deb's starting her second border



Sorry about the photo overload...........I hope you enjoyed seeing what I have been teaching.....

Have a great week......and enjoy your Easter break.........Cathy