What I've been up to.....

 Finally finished another baby blanket.....so pretty with all the different pink tones....

I've also been slowly working on my new sewing space....I've decided this cupboard would work well as a space to display some of my quilts and crocheted blankets....the room is slowly getting there but I'm not in a hurry as I want to enjoy the process and really think about what I want in my room and how I want to display stuff that makes the cut 😀

more photos on our stitching day out....eye candy

fig'nberry & one day in May sit and stitch. ...

 I'll let the photos do the talking except to say it was a fantastic day filled with lots of laughs, good food and great friends.

 Shez and Annie clowning about....

A little stitching was done....

 Beautiful table displays from Melissa....

 Some of the beautiful designs by Lisa from Fig'nberry ......

 more Fig'nberry....

I must confess I bought a few things and as soon as  I've taken a photo I'll do another blog post on what I bought on the day 😊

New sewing room....

 Okay I've moved in the furniture I want to keep into my new sewing space....still a lot to go through and get rid of ....

 This is now storing my 4ply baby wool mmmm I think I may just have enough to last me quite a while...

  This space on the left of the bookcase has been allocated for my new sewing table which my lovely sister Anne is giving me...hopefully it will be picked up sometime next weekend until then I'm just slowly going through stuff and re-filling my car for another trip or two to the op shop 😊

before photos. ...

 A few before photos of my old sewing room...as you can see I still have a bit of Christmas lingering about lol.

  

this has also been re-purposed in my new space....

 very untidy and cluttered....wait till you see what this is being used for now.

I've already loaded the car up quite a few times since taking these photos & I 've been quite ruthless with what I'm actually allowing into my new sewing space....more photos soon of my new room 😊

still here.....what I've been working on

 I've been keeping myself pretty busy the last couple of months.....above is one of the reasons a blanket using 8ply  which I've nearly finished hopefully all will be revealed in a couple of weeks.

 this is another blanket I've been working on, it's the same pattern as the previous picture but using 4ply instead of 8ply....same pattern two totally different looks ☺

 I also finished another baby ripple blanket using grey, white & banana yellow, another one for the baby gift giving basket.

Another finish but this time for me my scandinavian style blanket, this one seems to have taken forever but well worth it I think ☺
I'm busy de-cluttering and rearranging my sewung room into one of our spare bedrooms....hope to have someprogress photos of my new room for you soon 😊

Family

 While on holidays I visited my parents who have four orange trees, two are over 50 years old and the other two are over 30 years old and the tree above is one of the baby ones, my dad saved the oranges for when my sister Anne and I could come down and pick some to take home with us....Nothing beats the taste of these oranges!

 

My 89 year old dad insisting that we shouldn't climb the ladder to pick the oranges at the top of the tree in case we fell! MMMMmmm me thinks it should be the other way around but dad is so fit and active he put me to shame :)



This is the tree after we'd picked the majority of the oranges, just leaving the lower hanging ones for mum and dad to pick over the next few weeks.....

 

And these are the 23 bags of oranges we picked from the baby tree, Anne and I went home with a boot full of oranges which I passed out at work and to friends and some for myself as well.....it's always nice to go home :)



Girls day out in Ballan....

 

Saturday saw me head off to Ballan with my sister Anne to meet up with Shez, Liz and Rosalie.

 

We also timed it so we could attend the farmers market that was being held on the Saturday and we were not disappointed, this bread came home with me to have with my home made pea & ham soup MMmm very crunchy and full of seeds.

 

Sprung making some purchases.....





 Trying to take a selfie and finally succeeding LOL....after many, many attempts!

 

Having fun with friends is the best!

buying more gorgeous stuff at a beautiful shop in town called D & M Trader,s 147 Inglis Street, Ballan.....Dean & Matthew are a scream and couldn't have been more helpful :)

 



 

And here I am trying out my ballet moves..... I had a ball and can't wait for another chance to catch up with these lovely ladies again, it was such a fun and special day :)



Plodding along....

 

I've been working on this stitchery in short intensive bursts, slowly getting there....loving this stitchery so not to fussed that's it's taken me so much time to get to tis stage I'm enjoying the slow reveal :)



 

Another Gail Pan stitchery I've finished, just need to add the embellishments and pop it into a frame and it's another one destined for a wall in my home..... Gotta love quick projects in-between working on longer projects to keep you motivated.....so as you can see I have been busy while absent from my blog :)