I look up at the clock on the wall and it tells me it's 8.00 pm…. I've been editing for 12 hours and I'm still in my pyjamas….. OK, so I don't have to get changed for bed, I can just fall in…..!!!! I've even had visitors today  (lucky you can't tell my jamas are…

  This is hilarious – Daughter Rachael who is a school teacher sent this to me this morning…!!!! This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they…

I spent most of the day booking plane tickets, hotel rooms and double, double, double checking the preparations for trip No 2. this year. Next was to clean the shed in preparation for uninterrupted  work. But I thought you might like to visit my Summer House Studio, I added my little scrap book quilts to…

From adversity, I've been able to make 3 small quilts. They are quite heavily quilted….following the pattern in the fabric on some instances… The applique is raw edge, I stitched about 5 times around each bird… I used the new Janome foot… and feed dogs up….!!!! I added the pom poms to the bottom because…

I've been busy with family, a dinner party and working on the Alphabet book. Our Guild Meeting was on Thursday night and it was a great meeting. The theme was memory quilts…I had no idea what the subject was for the evening, so I didn't take any of my quilts…But in retrospect almost all of…

Well, it's been a bit frustrating  quilting this project…. In fact, it just won't happen. The centre panel that I printed onto fabric looks wonderful, but the backing on it just doesn't allow for quilting… (it's a sticky backing….) I tried about a dozen different techniques…. to no avail….after about 10 stitches, the needle would…

I taped two pieces of vellum together, in fact they are, what we call A3 size in Australia and "legal" in the USA. I then drew the design I required on  the vellum tracing paper with a pencil.    I made drawings on paper and reversed them ready to create the applique patterns.   From…

What a nice warm feeling to be home. But I arrive home with somewhat different ideas to those I left with. Experience while you are in a another place provides that state of mind. This trip even more so than others. I was greeted by two gorgeous granddaughters one, almost three, and one eighteen. We…