Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, we had an amazing time in Thailand - Nicole and I did a Thai cooking class on Christmas Day, so lunch was Thai food, along will the rest of the meals that day and most other days. Very relaxing and no fighting with crowds in the supermarket.
I will leave you with a few food photos,
Back soon with some more photos.
Well seeing I am off OS tomorrow to spend Christmas I thought it was OK to open my SSCS gift that arrived all the way from the UK from Andrea. I was so spoilt, Andrea had made me all of these gorgeous presents, they were all individually wrapped one inside the other, which made it fun to open. How very lucky was I to receive all of these lovely gifts, I just love them all especially the hexagons. Thank you so much Andrea they are all just delightful.
Also recently I have received these 3 very cute bears as gifts, the middle one from Jen, who was my secret santa swap partner from our online group, "Beatrice" the tall bear from Emily and smallest of the three was amade for me by Fee. They must all know I love bears, all three will fit into my home very nicely. Thanks to the 3 of you.
Tuesday this week saw our last class for the year, it was also a farewell to Ros who is leaving us after about 6 years of coming to Tuesday class. Ros is moving interstate, so we couldn't let the day go by without a small celebration, all the ladies bought along lunch and we all made Ros an embroidered 6 1/2" friendship block for her to make into a quilt. This is a group shot of all my wonderful Tuesday girls. Class will resume after the school holidays.
Merry Christmas to each and everyone of you, thanks for dropping by and reading about my life for 2009. Hope you all have a safe and happy festive season, God bless and take care.
Kerry
Look what has arrived in store - "Beach House" by Robyn Pandolph. These weren't due until after Christmas so it was a lovely surprise when they were delivered this week. These fabrics are priced at $22 per metre, also we will be cutting kits for a brand new quilt I am designing using all of these fabrics, it will be a nice simple quilt, it should show off the gorgeous fabrics really well. All the fabrics in the range can been seen here on the RJR website. Stay tuned to see how the quilt turns out.
A few different things to share with you all this evening.
Each year in the shop I run a swap - this years was an A4 folder cover - these are just a few that I wrapped ready pop in the post to ladies all over Australia earlier this week. Isn't Christmas a wonderful time of the year to share home made goodies. They should all be to there new homes next week. Thanks to everyone for being part of this years shop swap, not sure what we will do next year but I will keep you all in formed when I make a decision.
I would also like to share a photo I took just this evening of our sunset, I think it is reflecting the heat from the bush fire that is burning only a few kilometres to the southeast of our property - fingers crossed they get it under control and that the hot winds that have been blowing here for months don't blow it in our direction.
Here in Australia these type of sunsets usually mean another very hot day ahead.
How's everyones Christmas preparations going????
Kerry
Well I told you all I was going to try and do some sewing over the weekend, well with a diet coke each afternoon (my body is caffine free so I go hypo on coke,) I have managed to stay up well after midnight for about the last 5 nights then up by 6.30am so I have achieved heaps. Just a sneak look at the 10 bags I made on the weekend, one was for Elaine a member of my Tuesday ladies - we had a secret santa, that had to be ready for our Christmas Party today. Then there are 8 other bags for friends and one other swap gift. I look forward to achieving lots more sewing over the next month or so.
Kerry
These gorgeous boxes arrived in store this week - how cute are they - filled with a dozen little tiny parcels of 40 - 2 1/2" pre cut squares from a dozen different Moda ranges. They would make the perfect Christmas Gift for a friend or maybe even one for yourself, we all need to treat ourselves at this time of the year, don't we.
These gorgeous boxes wil lbe posted out free for the month of December to any where within Australia.
Cost per box is $49.95 - to place an order simply email me or give the shop a call.
I have a big weekend of sewing planned - so hopefully I will be back very soon to share some photos.
Kerry
Just thought I would share with you all a sneak peak of what I made my partner in Chookyblues SSCS, my parcel left last week as so is on it's way to the other side of the world. I hoping my partner loves what I have made her. We had to make one special gift as well as a decoration, I also included a couple of other small things, all wrapped in Fabric.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone receives from this wonderfully organised swap.
Kerry
Just sharing some of the quilts the ladies made in Tasmania - same pattern - different fabrics
Gorgeous colours Debbie
These fabrics were looking so good
Lisa's border fabric was just stunning
Sarah's quilt was looking terrific
Sonia's wasn't sure on her colous but I am sure once the borders went on it would look wonderful.
Back later with some more photos, happy sewing
Kerry
Oh I can't believe I haven't posted for so long, where is time going???
Well I have heaps to share with you - Just not sure where to start. Geoffrey and I had a fabulous time in Tasmania - I will try and pop back over the weekend and share some of our sight seeing photos but first of all I will share a couple of photos of my retreat I taught at "Calico Crossroads" in Exeter, the reason for our visit to that gorgeous state. We had a great class held in Paulines shop, I designed a new mystery quilt especially for the retreat - called "Georgetown Circle". All of the ladies in the retreat had picked their own colour combinations - with Paulines help - and when they arrived on Saturday morning their kits were all pre cut for them and ready to be sewn. 5 ladies that were in last years class returned this years so it was great to see their friendly faces. After 2 days sewing, along with lots of chatting, laughter and of course yummy food, most of the quilt tops were all together. All the quilts looked great, even if Pauline was a little unsure of some of the colour combinations. I will try and share photos of them all over the next couple of posts.
We should have taken a group photo earlier in the day when everyone was there.
Saturday evening saw a few of us bloggers head into Launceston for dinner - which was lovely - great to catch up with them, here we have Vicki
And Sarah - typepad has decided not to let me add her photo, will try again later.
Take care and happy sewing
Kerry
Well after the amazing results of our last paper bag quilt challange - all the ladies were very keen to start again - this time we decided on a different type of challange - A Round Robin quilt.
We have 3 different quilt groups going with this challange and it will run for another 5 months. Each month we will receive another bag from with in our small group, on which we will have to add another border to the orginal 16 1/2" square. There are rules with each border - example the first border needs to be at least 3 1/2" and no more the 4 1/2" and include triangles.
I have shared a photo of my block I have made, if there are any groups out there that would also like to take up the challange - we have 6 in each group, if you would like further details then contact me and I can email you out all the rules that i have set for our groups. It is a fun way to learn new techniques as well as work out side your square.
