Moved!!

We have moved!

"nuff said :)  except more boxes to unpack.

Now to get my quilting Mojo back.

House and Family

ALL IS WELL AGAIN

After this :-
taken as the fire really began to take hold before the planes and helicopters got there!

Thankfully all quiet on the home front - this has all been sorted!!

Thank God for the Firefightsers and the Volunteers,

Had a wonderful quick chat to our Four Corner Skype Group - in the early hours of the morning for me.  

We had a great tme and lots of laughs!

Off to work now

Bush Fire alert today..scary!

Al the neighbours received a pone text to tell us of the fire and to prepare to evacuate, as there was some danger to life and homes   The fire was 6 kms from us, and there were 2 fixed wing yellow water bombers and two large water bombing helicopters flying through the dense smoke - flying really low above the trees,  as it was out of control for a while.  the highway near us was diverted for a while, and we just watched and tried to work out what we would do.

We were all notified on our mobiles of the danger and told what we should do if the fires remained out of control.

I did get some photos of about an hour after is began, and the smoke was really dense and black ...but my battery in the camera was low and it didn't work out

The situation now is that the fire is contained, but the fie fighters will patrol the area tonight,

A few people were evacuated along Marriott Road, and between there and  Treasure road ...and close to Dunn Road.  Cars were diverted from the highway for a while, and some roads  were closed and people were not allowed in.  There was an evacuation area ready at the Leschenault Leisure Centre... just in case.

Fortunately for us, it was just on the other sire of the highway, so all the neighbours gathered in our street to observe the fires.  There are planes still flying over at times - I guess they are keeping an eye on the fire, as there is still some bush in the centre of the containment that needs to be watched.

We are off to bed now.. with phones close just in case.

Its still really hot in the house.

Granniess Hanky blocks

I am trying to catch up on some BOM's that I am way behind on.

Just finished setting these 2 blocks.

Have yet to sew them, waiting for my big machine to come back.

This BOM ran last year by Denise Russart.  I still have quite a few blocks tog!

Next one is cut ready.

I had some family down in the weekend and my youngest grandchild Emma wnated to do some sewing - 

No problems - so she had her first sewing lesson ... and I am delighted to say she is a natural.  

Photos follow.

Now she want to save for a sewing machineof her own!  :)

I have also made a small quilt with the yahoo small quilters group which I have just joined

seen below

Then I played in Photoshop and did some quilt whispering to see some different effects...they follow.

Thanks to my wonderful lessons with Carla Barrett from Step on Pins I had no trouble with the program - 

apart from some minor memory lapses,  which fortunately I sorted.

The family have gone back to Perth now...and i am beginning th quilt the small quilt now.

Anzac Day and Free Motion Quilt Challenge

Anzac day is always special for us!

My husband Mals father fought and was wounded at Galippoli, and our younger son Stuart is a Major in the Army reserves.

He is in front of two flags which I believe commemorate two local soldiers who lost their lives fighting and lived near here. 

Some of the marching with Stuart in the front.

My DH, Stuart, Heather, their children and Andrea.

We had a lovely evening.

Now you know why I couldn't concentrate :)

DAY 4 FMQ Challenge

I have put my cushion to the side - as there was a bit too much chat and a lot of lovely company for me to concentrate, so for the next few day I will be doing some 6" samples.

I will get back to the cushion Thursday or Friday.

I can actually see the points a which I was being asked a question :)

At least I am nibbling in dry bickies now and drinking a bit too ..



Designs

Its early in the evening for me to be posting...but I would love to show you what I have been doing today .....ALL day

As you can quess - I am very taken with the freezer Paper way of applique!

I drew this up earlier today - this was the second design - the first had a few too many small feather pieces. 

I didnt really take long to draw... was more torouble cutting it out and choosing the colours.

I was intending to put this on a black background...but may just do it on the white...

Here it is on the black

The colours in the white one are more correct.

Let me know what you think?

 

I think I really like the white.  Maybe make a feature of it on a larger piece of white and go mad with the quilting :)

There I was really getting ready for the FMQ challenge...and this is the path I have taken

I hope to do a bit of quilting on this too - soon  HA!

Just for fun - I took a photo of my sutdio...

from this mess!!!!  not to mention utter chaos!!!  I played - all day.

I had great trouble finding things (wonder why)

Now I really need to straighten things out and put fabric away...

And tonight - there was this beautiful sunset!

So you see - I did have time to notice a little around our house today.

It actually tried to rain today ..amazing, but not enough to even wet the ground.

I am going to try to sew the Granny's Hankies together tomorrow if I can.

School holidays have taken over

Now - just for a change - I am off to watch some TV - and just hope I don't get side-tracked- again!

The flag is proudly flying for Australia day .Plus a small mob of Kangaroos :)

It is also my eldest daughters Fiona's Birthday

We never forget her Birthday and she is delighted as she always has a holiday on that day.

I will try to get a photo of some kangaroos shorlty and add it to this post.

AND - here they are!!!  Took this photo a short while ago.

They all live just near us, fornunately not at our place :)

Happy Australia day everyone.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

From our house to yours :)