Scrub Stitchin' 2026 - Part 2

 

We all received a goodie bag.

The butterfly is a magnet made Janice. 

She knows I love Tilda so she made 

mine in one of the older ranges. 

The name tag is also a book mark and

the orange fabrics were to make a pouch. 

 

Besides working on my hexagons, 

I also made my pouch kit.

The fabrics were Liberty cottons. 

Here you can see the back fabric.

I added to my Tilda 

collection along the way.

 

We had a Make It, Bake It, Fake It swap. 

I received the gift from 

Raewyn (Stitching Farmgirl).

I forgot to take a photo of 

the gift I took to swap.

 

 Unfold the bag and you have a larger bag.

 

Raewyn had added these goodies. 

The blue scissor fob was made 

by Raewyn's mother. 

The stitching is beautiful.

It was so special to receive this. 

 

 I was lucky enough to 

win these fat quarters.

 

 Lots of lovely things.

 

Rosie and Tilly made some new friends.

Luna Lapin and Midge the Terrier.

They were made by Kylie.  

We had a big Show and Tell. 

All of these gnomes were made by Sharmayne.

 There were so many beautiful quilts shown too.

Friday night was our special 

dress-up night and dinner. 

This year's the theme was

 "Your favourite book character".

Sharmayne and I love the 

books by Dilly Court. 

I went as "Tilly True".

Dilly's books are set in the 1800's in London. 

 I bought this book when I was in Scotland 

and fell in love with the author. 

I got Sharmayne hooked too!

I've been slowly collecting the books at 

op shops, book swap places, 

ebay and marketplace. 

I now have 28 of them!

Ursula.

Lady Danbury (Bridgerton) and Paddington.

The Four Wally's! 

These girls came all the way from Utah!

Raewyn flew over from New Zealand. 

Miss Marple.

Noddy and The Gruffalo.

 

Special dinner. 

We even made the Coonamble Times!

We had a fabulous time and

all too soon it was over.

It was sad when the time came 

to say goodbye to everyone. 

Now the long wait for Scrub Stitchin' 2027!

 

But before that I've got to start packing 

for our next adventure.

We're off to Vietnam and Cambodia!

 

Scrub Stitchin' 2026 - Part 1

Rosie, Hector and I headed off the

Monday morning to make our way 

 

to Corowa to pick up 

Sharmayne (Country Fragrance)

for our road trip to Baradine. 

 

We loaded up the car and off we went. 

Rosie, Hector and Tilly 

were very well behaved in the car.

  A thousand kilometres after leaving home, 

 

we arrived at Camp Cypress on

Wednesday around noon.

 

We got ourselves all set up 

butdidn't actually start stitching 

until 9pm because we were too 

busy catching up with everyone!

 

 I started working on a new project.

 Lots of hexagons made with vintage Tilda fabrics.

  

Front and back hexagon 

panels for the pouch. 

 

I finished one side of the pouch. 

 It took me longer than I thought. 

That just may have had something to do 

with all the chatting that went on! 

Sharmayne, Janice, me and Jo. 

As you can see, I was away 

from my stitching spot 

and not working on my hexagons!

  

We enjoyed delicious scones 

made by Chooky's mum.

 

Having fun with Chooky.

Onto Part 2. 

Scrub Stitchin' 2025 - Part 2

 

 Sharmayne and I planned to work together to 

make coats for our rabbits as our main project.

Maybe it was just us but we found them quite tricky. 

After working on them all morning, we got to 

the collar and bias section. We just couldn't work 

out the next step and it was doing our heads in. 

At about 2.30pm I said we needed to put it away 

and come back to it in the morning.

 

I got up next morning and found a tutorial online. 

What a difference that made. 

Watching a video was much easier to 

understand than the written instructions.

 

 So apparently we were making a tailor made 

coat, only in miniature!

Finally, the coat was finished.  

It only took about 12 hours to make! LOL!

If I had been at home working on this 

by myself, I think I would have given up.

 Needless to say, 

Rosie will only ever have one coat!

Hector admiring Rosie and Tilly's coats.

I also put my Heartstrings stitcheries together 

to make a wall hanging for my sewing room. 

It is so much prettier in real.

There are 120 different Tilda fabrics with no repeats. 

I hadn't realised how many different fabrics 

I had and there were a lot more I didn't put in. 

And now I've added more to the collection 

on the trip up! Oops!

 

I also got the borders put on my 

Little Christmas Bird table runner.

Rosie and Tilly enjoying the show and tell.

I hope you've enjoyed reading 

about our Scrub Stitchin' adventure.

I'm already looking forward to the next one!

Rosie and the Easter Bunnies!

Easter lunch with the family, 

our first with little Kade. 

Missing Nelson and Chloe 

as they are away camping.

Scrub Stitchin' 2025 - Part 1

Scrub Stitchin' has come and gone!

I left on the Monday morning and my first stop 

was Corowa to pick up Sharmayne at  

Country Fragrance for our road trip to Baradine.

We headed off early Tuesday morning to make 

our way to our overnight stop at Dubbo.

Rosie and Hector came on the road trip and 

made a new friend, Tilly. The three of them sat 

quietly in the back the whole trip!

We checked out a few quilt shops on the way.

Rosie, Hector and Tilly wanted come into the 

shop at Coonabrarabran and they had 

fun in the Tilda section.

"These would make nice dresses!"

And played in the Easter display.

Rosie and Hector bought these Tilda fabrics for me!

After travelling more than 1,000km

 over three days, we finally arrived at

 Scrub Stitchin' on Wednesday afternoon. 

It was wonderful catching up with everyone.

We all got a goodie bag. I received the lovely 

pin cushion and quilting gloves in the 

"Make It, Bake It, Fake It" swap 

which was gifted by Jules.

The theme for this year's Scrub Stitchin' was 

"Winter Wonderland in the Warrumbungles".

We all dressed up for Saturday night's special dinner.

Sharmayne and I went as "Penguins on Parade"

With Chooky (a snowflake) and Kate.

 

Walking like penguins as it was all we 

could do to keep our 'feet" on!

 2025 Scrub Stitchin' attendees.

Here is the photo of everyone at last year's Scrub Stitchin'. 

Do you notice anything?

I'm wearing the same dress! Haha!

 

All too soon it was time to say goodbye 

to everyone. Sunday morning Sharmayne and I started

 our trek back to Corowa. We had a fabulous time

and have already started planning for 

for Scrub Stitchin' 2026! LOL!

 

I'll share the projects I worked on in Part 2.