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You Are Apple Green

You are almost super-humanly upbeat. You have a very positive energy that surrounds you.And while you are happy go lucky, you're also charmingly assertive.You get what you want, even if you have to persuade those against you to see things your way.Reflective and thoughtful, you know yourself well - and you know that you want out of life.

What Color Green Are You?

Outward Bound

Just a bit sad at the moment. I have just dropped D1 - who is 15 years old - to catch the bus for Outward Bound. The whole of year 9 at her school have gone to a National Park near Canberra. The school loves OB so much they have made it a compulsory excursion. OB is a worldwide organisation that was developed to teach young people leadership and responsibility. Have a look. Yr 9 is spending the next 6 days on something a bit like a survival camp where they are wholely responsible for their decision making and have tasks they need to complete. They also have to hike about 8km's a day with all that they need on their back. It apparently really challenges them. They have a teacher and an OB guide with them but they don't get too involved in things. It's all up to the kids. They'll be back next Sat exhausted and smelly.

Catchup No.2

This quilt here was from a kit I picked up at Quilters Hive when I was there recently. It is a really easy pattern by Julie Wallace. You just buy a 30cm strip of fabric for each block you want to make. So for a 3x3 quilt you need to buy 9 x 30cm pieces of fabric.

While I was at the shop I saw a fully completed Dear Jane. Can't wait to take mum to see it. We plan to make that our next major project together. A long term one.

I am thinking now of adding a scalloped border to this quilt all around the outside. D2 is playing netball at Charlestown for school soon and I plan to drive down to watch. May have to make a little visit!


The next quilt is a 40th birthday present for a member of my Friday night Quilt group. The tradition is to all get together and make one for each members 40th. This year we have 3. One in Sept, one in Oct (mine) and one in December. Everyone did a stitchery panel each and then we had a day to do all the piecing. I have just finished quilting it today plus sewed the binding and hanger on. Now I am ready to pass it onto Sheryl to slipstitch and then it will go to Deb to put all the buttons on it. One down and then only one more to go for me.




















The other quilty thing I have done is start to make a wedding quilt for my brother and his fiance. They have only been engaged since May and a couple of weeks ago told us that they wanted to get married before Mum & I leave for our trip to the US. 21st October to be exact. SO of course we have to make a quilt but that leaves about 7 weeks to have it ready. I'm sure we can do it. The pattern is inspired from an old one I saw on ebay. But I have since seen a similar one on Terry Clothier Thompsons website. I went out to Mum & Dad's yesterday after Netball and we had a big quilting marathon unitl about 11.30. We got all the centre together using leftover 1930's fabrics from D2's quilt. We tried to get started on the borders this morning but Caroline (the bride to be) arrived to have lunch with us for Fathers Day. We knew she was coming but just not quite so early. So know the quilt is all tumbled and folded up with the borders hidden in Mum's cupboard. Oh well we will have to have another go sometime soon. Well best go now I have to work tomorrow.

Catching Up

I can't believe how long it is since I last posted. I must admit though that I have been spending my computer time reading everyone else's blogs and being totally inspired. Which is a good thing because I have been doing a bit more sewing than I normally do. Earlier I mentioned I was going to do a free machine quilting workshop with Jenny Stanley. Here is the result. I had a great day and learnt heaps. Lots of little tips to make things better.





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The girls all had netball and hubby was on nightwork and really needed to sleep during the day. It took a little bit of organising but everything worked out OK.

I'm going to have to do another blog cause I'm not sure what I am doing to add some more photos.