20 April, 2025

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.

Happy Easter!

 
Happy Easter!

 

19 April, 2025

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.

03 April, 2025

Rabbits!

 
For Kade's first Easter, I have made him this rabbit. 
It is made from the Tilda Woodland range.

I was in a rabbit making mood, so I made more rabbits. 
One each for my boys beautiful girls, Steph, Paris and Chloe. 
Of course I made all the rabbits in Tilda fabric!
 
 This is Cynthia! 
At our recent Chit Chat Crafters get together, 
one of the girls brought kits for us to make a little doll. 
A bit of fun but I don't think I'll be making any more! 
 Well, there's only 4 more sleeps before I head 
up to Corowa to pick up Sharmayne and we 
make our way to Scrub Stitchin' at Baradine. 
I'm sure I'll have lots to share when we get back.

I can't believe that Kade is 1 month old already.
He is doing well and putting on weight.
Going to miss my cuddles while I'm away!

14 March, 2025

2024 Scrub Stitchin' Sewing Case

At Scrub Stitchin' retreat in April last year, 
we were all given a Cherish Each Day Sewing Case kit. 
It was designed by Anni Downs especially for us.
I finally made a start on mine!
My plan was to do the embroidery in January. Tick!
Add the wool applique in February. Tick! 
Put it together in March. Tick!
 
 
 All finished.
Ready to take to Scrub Stitchin' 
with three weeks to spare!
Thank you for all the comments on the
 arrival of Kade and my glamorous gloves. 
Here's another photo of him just because I can! 
 
I don't know what's going on with blogger. 
Some comments come through but as no reply 
bloggers. When I do reply with your email 
addresses, a lot bounce back. 
I've also found a lot that are being marked as spam
and were sitting in my spam folder!