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Friday Night with Friends ( FNWF)
This was my first Friday night with friends. The boys were off to the football ( and one very sad face arrived home later on - our team didn't do very well.) My daughter was off somewhere in the house...
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Christmas in July.
My Christmas in July partner was Vickie in the Northern Territory. She sent some mysterious brown paper packages which I managed to keep until today before I was able to open them. (Well maybe there...
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Stitcher's Dream Day Out in Toowoomba.
There have been some tricky times over the last few months with family issues, health issues and even computer issues. There has been very little 'me' time so I decided that I needed a day out and what...
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A great day out.
Sometimes it is nice to have a day out to get away from all the stuff going on in real life. I had been looking forward to going to the Brisbane Craft and Quilt Fair. And I knew a few other crafty...
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Returning to another love.
I have always played with fabric but another love has been counted thread embroidery. I haven't done a lot lately so it was nice to return to the rhythm of this sort of stitching. I have always loved...
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Secret Santa gift for Helen.
This a short post to show what I made with that cross stitching I was doing. Yesterday was one of my group's Christmas 'do' and we had a Secret Santa swap. The triangular shape of the cross stitch...
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Sunday Stitching Christmas Party
The thing about having a group of bloggers meet is that they all blog about the event. In this case it is great because I didn't take a lot of photos and looking at all the blogs helps to remember what...
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Christmas is coming.
Parcels have been arriving at my house - ooh so much temptation!We haven't started decorating yet - there has so much going on this December. I am hoping that tomorrow will be the day. We have a...
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FNSI and a cute freebie
With a bit of time to make something for myself I joined in with others at last night's Friday Night Sew In. Earlier in the week I had found this cute little freebie pattern over here and just knew I...
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Christmas Swap Goodies.
There has been quite a bit going on here lately. Of course there was Christmas where we were at my inlaw's for two days. A few days later, my brother in law had his sixtieth birthday party and the next...
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Learning something new.
Two days ago my teenage daughter asked me if I could teach her to crochet. This was at 5.30 pm and she knew I was going out in an hour. I didn't want to discourage her as she can give up on an idea...
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Initial heart swap and birthday
I joined in Cheryll's Initial Heart Swap for the second time and my partner was Anthea of Hibiscus Stitches. She sent me a beautiful lacy heart, some post it notes which I unfortunately cropped from...
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The Chookshed Anniversary.
Lots of people were sewing along with Chooky for the anniversary of her chookshed. I wish I had been able to be there in person but time was spent at home working on the hexagons for the project we...
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Christmas in July Swap
I know, I know it's August. But Christmas did arrive in July. You can see what I received from Sharm. Thank you Sharm and Cheryll too ( our great organiser) There was a Christmas Apron, which is just...
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What a week! (One)
This has been such a week of activity. Last Saturday it was a visit to the Samford quilter's show. That was lovely with morning tea included but although I took photos I won't post them as I don't...
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Exhausted, tired, over emotional and just over it all.
Note - the over emotional part of this is because I have just written this post and it didn't publish and has disappeared to I don't know where. It was hard enough to write it the first time, now I...
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Secret Santa Christmas Swap
This is the lovely item I received from Wendy for the SSCS. Wendy had said on her blog that she hoped I'd get a better picture of it as it was rainy when she posted hers. I'm not sure I did Wendy as it...
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A weekend in Nundle - no stitching in this post.
There are a lot of wonderful posts about going to Girl's Day In the Country held in Nundle (near Tamworth in New South Wales) and beautifully organised by Kerry Swain from Cottage on the Hill.I went...
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On retreat
I'm away on a wonderful week with great friends. We go to Glenrose Patchwork in Warwick and stay in the cottages there. The weather might be on the cool side but everything else is wonderful. It is so...
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A perfect Match.
At the end of June our Sunday Stitching group had a mini quilt swap. I received my swap from Alison who made me a beautiful little mini quilt with the teensiest of half square triangles and in my...
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