Stitching In The Country

 Saturday saw Melody and I heading out to 

Narre Warren East for a day of stitching 

with Gail Pan and Ramona Hermann.

This is the cute little country hall.

 Our projects.

We got down to stitching.

This is the pattern I worked on. I'm pretty impressed with how much I actually got stitched in between the chatting, eating and shopping! I finished off the reindeer at home.

 With Gail.

 This is what we received in our goodie bags.

I also did a little shopping!

Thanks to Gail and Ramona for a wonderful day.

Thanks also to Mel for being such good company.

Lest We Forget

Friday Night With Friends

I spent my FNWF down and Mum and Dad's and worked a little on my hexagons. Unfortunately, the lighting isn't very good there and my portable light needed recharging. 

I managed joining about 7 hexagons of a row to the main piece. I plan to work on some more today.

Thanks to Chez for being our lovely hostess. 

You can see what the others got up to here.

Now I must go charge up my light ready for next time!

Making The Australian Quilt 1800-1950 Exhibition

Yesterday, Melody, Anne (no blog) and I headed into town to the Making the Australian Quilt: 1800-1950 

Exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre, NGV.

This is the Rajah Quilt that was made by convict 

women en route to Australia in 1841. 

It was so much bigger than I imagined.

This is in the centre bottom of the quilt.

There were lots of hexagon quilts.

This quilt was dated around 1830 and 

still had the papers in it.

This one was attributed to Elizabeth MacArthur c 1840.

The flowers were fussy cut. Everything matched up perfectly, even the thin stripes. I wonder if they made templates for the fussy cutting!

 

 There were so many beautiful quilts.

 

I've taken heaps of photos and I'm sure Mel 

will show you some different quilts.

Of course, we couldn't go to town 

without popping into L'uccello's!

Next up was lunch in Degraves Laneway. It was a bit squashy there but lots of atmosphere.

This is the window at the Hopetoun Tea Rooms in the Block Arcade. We were very good and just looked!

But we may or may not have stopped 

in at Haigh's Chocolates for a little sample!

It was a wonderful day out. I'm so glad we got to go to the Exhibition. It would have been such a pity to miss it.

October OPAM!

 

October has come and gone and once again 

I only have one finish!

My Naughty and Nice Hanging.

Thanks to Peg and Kris for OPAM.