Happy Australia Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a quiet week here in my house as two of my boys have been away to the beach with cousins.



My craft room is well set up with air conditioning and a tv for watching the Australian Open. I get addicted to the tennis every year and I can get so much sewing done while watching.

I have nearly finished hand quilting a quilt, been working on some samples for the upcoming Melbourne Stitches & Craft Show where Louise and I will be doing some workshops especially for children. I also started and finished two orders for customers which I think turned out quite well. These are the pictures.


All in all it has been a good week and I feel great that I can cross some of my projects off the list. Now I can begin some new ones without that guilty feeling!


Happy Australia Day to all Australians living all over the world! I am off to make some Lamingtons!!!!!!!!! You can find a good recipe here.

What I have been up to

Finally, the bags have been delivered - 12 little totes for Miko - (they are roughly based on Rosalie Quinlans' pattern - Naomi's Little Carrybag) -





For the ruffles on the top - I used a 'ruffle' attachment on my machine. It sure makes gathering and ruffling so much easier. I highly recommend it - it even pleats for you as well and is completely adjustable.





I thought I would show you a couple of shots of my workroom (it got a bit of a cleanup and a lot of stuff went to the op shop). I have to share this room with the boy's tv - but at least during the daytime it is mine all day. It overlooks our backyard and has lots of natural light.



I have this little word above my sewing machine -


Jade, check out my fabric stash - and that is only about half of it. The drawers on the right hand side of the pic are all my scraps and patterns - underneath my workbench is the some more and then I have even more in a bank of cupboards. Now you know why I have a curtain to hide everything. It is so hard to keep fabric stashs tidy.