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an Eggcellent weekend

Last weekend i was very lucky to be invited to join with a group of fabulous women to do a weekend retreat at cottage on the hill in Nundle kerry's fabulous shop of course there was wine to share and these little guys were the incitement to press our seams, they waited for us at the ironing board my strips grew quickly there was a lot of concentration and a little bit of hairdressing a beautiful sunset greeted us as we left after the first day my finished quilt top, completed just after lunch on the sunday Beau our constant companion for the weekend, he was always right there on the doorstep enjoying the sun if you have ever considered going to Kerry's (cottage on the hill) for a weekend retreat GO you will have a ball spending all day stitching and eating glorious food hope your hands are working on something that you love Ciao Patricia

Birthday wishes and the secret sewing sisters

throughout the week i have been receiving parcels from all over Australia i diligently put them aside to wait for the big day my pile was pretty good and then  after the big opening ceremony  tah dah lot's of lovely fabrics some notebooks and lots of heart felt greetings to my secret sewing sisters . . . . you know who you are . . . . .  Thank you you made my day just that much brighter hope your hands are working on something that you love Ciao Patricia

on my sewing table - an update, Durlindana

I ve been pretty busy this past week,  i finally stopped procrastinating and Durlindana has finally made it to the  sewing table initially i planned to do my cross designs with my brand new quilting Halo  (a recent purchase in Sydney) (this is my sample and i found the quilting halo great on this sample , i will let you know how it goes on the full size quilt) but after two attempts i found that the lines weren't straight and i decided that despite the increased work of twisting and turning the quilt through the machine i would use the walking foot my cross design, i think it looks really good and i am really happy with the overall effect the quilt mountain behind Victoria (the machine) boy has she worked hard for the last few nights so the current count is 29 full size crosses done 7 full size crosses to go 12 half crosses to go i hope your hands are working on some thing that you love Ciao Patricia

on my sewing cabinet - Y seams

making a project using Y seams on the sewing machine has been something i have avoided for a while. A few years ago i had a go at doing Y seams on a quilt for my husband i had a lot of problems and  was really bad at it, i ended up hand sewing the blocks together and as a result i still have 3 blocks to go. . . . . At the craft show at Newcastle last year i had a long talk with the lovely Paul from  Somerset Patchwork  and he assured me they were easy and i purchased the Portsmouth pattern, the Le Moyne template kit and some lovely reproduction fabrics i procrastinated for a while then decided to get going the templates were fantastic to use and i quickly had my pieces cut out using my small rotary cutter again i procrastinated for a few months, then started piecing them together in pairs strictly following the simple directions provided in the pattern all seemed to go well  i quickly reached the point were i only needed to put my final