Navy and White

Not much stitching happening around here! We've just had our annual Quilt Camp with about 150 women in attendance. I'm on the committee, so lots of preparation and a very busy week while it's on. However, lots of laughter, good food, great classes and wonderful company.

I have finished my little quilt for our current challenge - Navy and White. I was thinking of doing a sailor - who doesn't like a man in uniform?? but decided instead to do a stack of teacups using some of my Japanese fabrics. I jazzed it up a bit with some red quilting stitches. To see more challenge quilts go here.

Kiwi

Here in Australia we can watch a lovely program on TV called The Zoo which is all about the daily activities at the Auckland Zoo in New Zealand. Recently they showed a sequence on the kiwi - hatching from an egg and then being released into the wild. At the same time I've been stitching some squares of fabric onto a piece of white damask. One of the bits of fabric I bought in NZ many years ago and it has a kiwi on it! The squares are 1.5 inches and I was inspired after seeing pictures on the internet of small quilts using a lot of white, not something I would normally use. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet but it's fun!

Sunny yellow!

After weeks of wet, windy, and grey weather I found some touches of yellow today to cheer me up!

Port Vincent II

I've finished my small quilt that I started at Geelong Fibre Forum last year. It's based on two photographs from one of our holidays in Port Vincent. (The photo of the canoe is not the right one, but close enough! I can't find the original.) The fabrics I've chosen are meant to represent the sea, the sand, and the old fashioned flower gardens a lot of the stone houses have in the town. This is the second quilt I've made using inspiration from one of our favorite holiday spots!

Stitching the sea

I've been stitching the sea.
And after a couple of weeks of wet, windy and grey days we had some sunshine today! Lots of interesting bits and pieces left on the beach by the stormy weather, and a lovely walk along a pebbly path to the wetlands where the swallows were catching insects. 

A short break and more stitching

We had a lovely long weekend over on Kangaroo Island. It was cold and windy but there is always lots of wildlife and birds to see.  Kangaroos, Pied Oystercatchers, a pelican watching us from the top of a light pole, and adorable baby lambs!

I'm stitching fish eyes on the small piece I started at Geelong Fibre Forum last year. I want to do some stitching around the canoe too. It was hard to take photos of this, with the flash the colours are too bright and without the flash the colours are very dull!

Memories

The sun shone briefly this morning, long enough for a quick walk. The fish was dead!

Two more little quilts/pictures - this time of my two daughters when they were babies. So long ago but it only seems like yesterday! Now they are grown up and one of them has two daughters of her own! These little pictures are only small, approx. 7 x 8 inches. I always thought I might put them on the covers of photo albums but that has never happened!