Weekend's Over

Woke up this morning and realised that the weekend was over, it was Monday morning, and I needed to get to work!  Gosh, a real shock to the system!

Had a great day of quilting with the HQ quilting group from work on Saturday.  Was absolutely lovely to see Saddle join us for the day too.  I believe that in times of stress and hardship, keeping busy with something you love and enjoy, really helps with reducing your stress and trauma.  A very special Lady this!

Sometimes I wonder when I am going to wake up and take note of what I am doing when I do something at quilting!  Here I was using a great light box to trace the pattern onto Visa-Fix, only to realise (once I cut all the pieces out!!) that it was not Visa-Fix but what you use for strengthening the fabric!  Hello, what is happening to my grey matter??? AAaagggghhh.  Will now being doing the tracing during the week.

Have to finish my wall quilt for my Mum this week so that I can post it early next week to reach her in South Africa in time for Mother's Day - will probably be late!

Am enjoying the machine applique of the autumn leaves.  The bamboo leave applique with the verigated green thread came out looking very nice, even if I have to say so myself.

Here are some pics of the fun we had on Saturday:

Quick lesson in silk screening

Assessing the layout from a height and distance.  Does it work?

Yip, it worked!

I somehow seemed to be doing a lot of running around on Sunday and it felt like I achieved very little when, in fact, lots happened.  Washing, cleaning, bit of shopping, late brunch at the rain check lounge in Elizabeth Street.  They do great eggs benedict and eggs florentine .... yum!  Oh, I also took my puppy for a long walk in the woods and was surprised at where we came out after our long travels!  Not that far from home down the road!  Then got stuck into unpacking my sewing machine and doing a spot of sewing.

Warm regards

Easter Saturday

Time waits for no man!  So, to prevent time becoming history that cannot be changed, I have worked hard to get things moving forward with my quilt, besides doing lots of other little things.

On Good Friday, I took my dog for a walk then for a wash at the Dog Wash (at one of the car wash places - great invention this bath!), did some washing of laundry (just the most important lots like undies, etc), did only one meal for us (my DH knows where the kitchen is and there is nothing wrong with his arms and hands!), ironed all the traced off leaves onto the material - then cut out each and every piece of material leaf, ready to iron onto the fabric square and start my applique.  Packed things away just after 1 am - satisfied!

Autumn Leaves

And this will be the centre panel of my new quilt

Got up early this morning, let my puppy in - he turns one year today!  Got back into bed for a short cuddle with him and DH (once I am up, I struggle to lie around in bed when there is so much to do and time moves on).  Eventually I could take it no longer and got up, had breakfast (alone as usual), cleaned the kitchen, re-organised the electric wiring behind the microwave (plug board keeps moving around), watered my indoor plants, banged in a nail to hang up a picture, fed the pets and quickly organised facebook and my blogs.

Now - hopefully, I can sneak off to my sewing room!

Blessed Easter for any Christian passing through!

Warm regards