Friday Night Sew-In

Nelson had a Friday night football game so I couldn't stitch along then. 

I joined the girls in the Northern Hemisphere on Saturday. Got myself 

set up in the morning and then went to Mitchell's football match. 

Rex found himself comfortable spot with a perfect view!

When I got home I started working on a new baby quilt. 

The other baby quilt is finished but I can't show you that yet.

 I am doing it quilt-as-you-go.

 Next I spent some time preparing the applique pieces for the first 

two blocks of Jenny's Phyllis May's Kitchen (this is block 2). 

Will have to wait until I get some more Vliesofix so I can prepare 

some more. I'm off on retreat in a couple of weeks and 

this is one the projects I plan to work on.

Noel, Austin, Nelson and Paris headed down to Sandy Point yesterday 

and are heading off on a hike at Wilson's Promontory today, 

along with some others from their Kokoda trip. 

In case you're wondering why Noel is holding his phone up, that's 

because they were phone chatting with me so I'm there too! 

With them still away, that means another day of sewing for me!

Thank you to Wendy for hosting us.

You can see what lovely things others stitched here.

Well, I'm off to hopefully finish putting the quilt together.

Friday Night With Friends

Friday I worked on an apron for my great niece, Thea. 

She is turning 3 and loves to cook with her mummy.

 All finished. A special apron to go with
the wooden mixer I bought for her.

 I even found a pink mini whisk to go with it!

So nice to finally have a finish.

Thank you to Chez for hosting us for FNWF. 

You can see what the others got up to here.

Friday Night Sew-In

 I've finished all the applique on my "Happy Stitcher" hanging. 

Last night I started the embroidery part. I have come to the conclusion 

that I'm really not a needle turn appliquer (not sure how to spell that). 

The fiddly little pieces nearly drove me mad! LOL! But I'm glad I persevered.

Thanks to Wendy for hosting us last night.

You can see what the others got up to here.

Friday Night With Friends And A Netball Injury!

 I started putting the rows together of a new baby quilt. 

I used a charm pack of Bonnie and Camille's "Scrumptious" 

and other B&C fabrics. I had just enough different ones that I did 

not have to double up on any of them.

 When I laid the rows out to take a photo, I saw my mistake. 

I forgot to turn the triangles around. Lucky I only did two rows 

like this so not much unpicking to be done.

 Then I worked on the applique of the third block 

of my "Happy Stitcher" hanging.

Making progress. 

I'm doing all the applique first and then I'll do the stitching part.

 Thank you to Chez for hosting us last night. 

You can see what others got up to here.

Wednesday night I got a phone call from Austin. "Nelson's broken his nose"! 

Then the photo came. Mitchell, Austin, Nelson, Paris and Steph have been 

playing netball this year. Austin finished a few weeks ago 

when he popped his good shoulder. Now Nelson!

 So off to the Austin Hospital.

 I met them at the hospital. For the first time ever, 

we walked into an empty waiting room in emergency. 

Mitchell, Steph and Laura stayed in the waiting room. Poor Laura. 

It was her elbow that got Nelson. She was so upset.

The doctors were more worried about blood clots but all was good. 

They don't think it's broken although there may be a slight fracture 

which will heal itself. His nose looks quite crooked but it appears to 

be the swelling on the side he took the main hit. 

As the swelling is going down, it doesn't look as crooked.

Today the bruising is starting to come out. 

And I thought netball was a non-contact sport! 

Think they should just stick to football!

Never a dull moment at MacDonald's Patch!

OPAM for May

 One finish for May. My "House Rules" stitchery by Leanne Knell.

Thanks to Kris for keeping us inspired.

Noel and Nelson arrived home from Papua New Guinea on Tuesday. 

They had the most amazing time. Once we get the photos sorted, I'll do a post 

about their adventure. Here they are at the end of the Kokoda Trail having 

arrived in the Kokoda Village after eight days of trekking.