Quilt camp is over??!! I can't quite believe that something I have been looking forward to for so long has been and gone. (sigh) I had fun, lots of it and also got LOTS of sewing done. The quilt is not finished, but there was little more I could have done to make it so. I mean I had to sleep, and eat. Boy did I eat! Great food, and plenty of it. I really want to keep working on it right now, but I have finally hit the wall. The other thing I did lots of this weekend was listen, those who know me well know that that is unusual!! It is AMAZING what you hear by the way. LOL
We were spoilt in so many ways, and one of them was with gifts. Karen (Mrs Martin of Mrs Martins Quilt Shop) gave us all 3 little kits each. A needle keeper thing( I think that is what the first one is, does anyone else remember??) A quilt Label kit and a pin cushion kit. COOL!!! Thanks heaps Karen. The weekend was brilliant, I hope you had as much fun as we did! Do you love your job? I know I would love your job! LOL.
And then there was the Dear Jane swap, 5 little gifts secretly given over the weekend by an anonymus friend. At morning tea today we got to meet our partners. This is the first time I have participated in anything like this and I was so nervous about how my gifts would be received; Ros from Oz was very gracious and it was lots of fun sneaking around in stealth mode. Now the gifts I gave were really very predictable, but predictable was certainly not a word I would use to describe the gifts I received. My gifts were incredablity creative, and really threw me off the givers trail well. By the 3rd gift I was convinced that Ros my partner, then the 4th gift threw me for a loop and I thought only Mary would have given me something that mad. But then the 5th was so different again, I began to doubt my detective skill. I was so wrong! Anne had been sitting so close to me all weekend, and we chatted often and she NEVER gave herself away at all. So what did she give me?? Gift 1 - A pumpkin grown in her very own garden. Gift 2 a FQ. Gift 3 - A Jar of homemade rasberry jam, made with raspberries she grew also. Gift 4 - a weird pen, seriously it is weird!! and Gift 5 - Some cool pins with heart heads and a brilliant little timber lady beetle button. I dont know if you will ever read this Anne, but in case you do... thank you so much for your generousity and inventiveness, your gifts were a delightful part of the weekend. Oh and when I showed the pumpkin to the family I was asked when I would be making soup. ( I told you so!!!)
So now domestic duties call, but I will be back in the next couple of days with some pictures of the "quilt as you go" in progress. BFN Lynda
I had planned on quilting all day today but stuff got in the way. I felt obligated to do some housework & business stuff first, so subsequently I didn't sit down at the machine until 3pm. I still managed to get 1/2 the required quilting down, which has made me very happy. Will get some done first thing tomorrow, but then I have an eye test at 11am and the drops I need to have will prevent me from doing anything that requires vision for a couple of hours after. BFN Lynda
I am totally exhausted!! First day back at school for the kids so I Dropped DD2, and headed straight up to the church to borrow some space and some tables. It took about 4 hours getting it all basted. I finished just in time to head over to the lounge for bible study. Then back to the hall to pack up, sweep the floor etc. By the time I got home it was about 5pm. I wrapped one urgent ebay
parcel so DH could bolt up the the post office with it and collect a box of stock that had arrived also. Then dinner. Then packing 16 MORE parcels 
I am sure that everyone knows about the wild weather we had in Melbourne on Wednesday. Although it was pretty nasty here, I believe we missed the worst of it. We did have one little bit of drama, as you can see the cover of the Gazebo in our backyard, well sort of shredded. When the wind started I did at least think to turn the table over and fold the chairs up and lay them down. (The table has gone tumbling around the backyard one other time) DD1 heard a funny noise and went out to investigate, and this is what she called me to see. DH cut it off when he got home. We have a spare ready to put up but will wait till the spring I think.
Work on the birthday quilt is progressing nicely. I have it all stitched up and ready to baste. I plan on doing that this week, at the church on some trestle tables. With my new Kwik-Clip tool, my basting spray and my instructions!!! Thanks to all the lovely Scquilters who answered my call for help. I am now off to press the quilt, and stitch the backing together, so I am ready to go at a moments notice.
