WA Road Trip (Part 1)

 Eight weeks, 4 states and 11,384kms! 

What a fabulous trip we had. 

The welcoming party, aka Molly and Rex, were very happy to see us!

 

 As you can imagine, I've taken hundreds of photos. 

I'm just sharing some of them. It's taken me several days to get 

my photos uploaded onto the computer as my icloud

 had filled up and I had no more space. 

 

In their last update, unbeknownst to me, 

Apple changed setting on the phone for the photos to be high 

efficiency (not jpeg) and if you don't have an Apple Mac, 

you can't see your photos until you download some program. 

 I would normally just download using my phone cord. 

Anyway, after deleting hundreds of photos from icloud, 

my other photos eventually uploaded to icloud 

and I have everything on my computer.

 

By the way, I did discover something else. 

I always copy the photos in my icloud and save them in folders 

on my computer. Then I would also back them up on a portable hard drive.  

Well, when I deleted the old icloud photos from back in 2013/2014, 

it also deleted those photos I had copied into folders on my computer!

 Lucky I still have them on the portable drive. 

For some reason, after I deleted photos I went back to the folders to 

check and that's when I discovered this. 

Thought I would warn others in case you do the same as me.

 

First stop Port Fairy. 

This is our little home away from home!

 

Innes National Park - Yorke Peninsula, SA.

Innes National Park - Yorke Peninsula, SA.

 

Point Labatt Conservation Park sealion colony, SA. 

You can see the sealions on the top right hand side of the sandy area.

The photo you have to get! Near Yalata, SA.

Nullabor Plain, SA.

Head of the Great Australian Bight, SA.

 

When you have no phone coverage you have to call back 

home the old fashioned way! Nullabor Roadhouse, SA.

 Sunrise at Nullabor Roadhouse, SA.

Nullabor Roadhouse, SA.

The sign says it all!

 Esperance, WA.

Lucky Bay, Cape Le Grand National Park, WA.

Oldest dwelling in Western Australia, Albany WA.

Lots of lovely old things to see in here.

 National ANZAC Centre, Albany WA. Well worth a visit here.

Whales near the blowholes, Torndirrup National Park near Albany, WA

Explored Ngilgi Cave, 

Leeuwin-Cape Naturaliste National Park, WA.

 

More to come next post!

A new quilt!

  

My quilt has been finished for a few weeks but I just hadn't 

had a chance to post about it. 

I have called it "Tilly's Old Roses" and it is made 

using the Tilda Old Rose fabric range. Looking at the quilt, 

I probably should have pressed it before taking photos!

I used the Eliza Raspberry for backing. 

It was beautifully quilted with a damask rose design 

by Leanne of Leanne's Quilting Service.

 

I'm going to be pretty quiet for the next couple of months. 

As I mentioned in my last post, Noel and I will be 

road tripping in our camper van. Hopefully, 

I might get time to catch up with everyone's blogs 

if we have wifi and are having a quiet night in!

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Friday Night Sew-In

  

Last night I worked on some EPP for a special group project 

for a little while. I also started getting my sewing projects 

together ready to take on a trip. Noel and I are heading off 

in our camper and making our way over to Western Australia.

It's very exciting and even more so as we're going to be

catching up with Maria from Life On The Block.

 

Thank you to Wendy for hosting us last night.

Happy Easter!

 

My bunny collection is growing!

 

Happy Easter!

A Tilda Swap

Dawn at Kitty Rose Cottage recently organised a 

Favourite Tilda Fat Quarter Swap. We each sent her a fat quarter 

of our favourite Tilda fabric which Dawn then forwarded 

to a mystery partner who then made a swap gift using that fat quarter.

 We could also add extra fabric to what we were making. 

This is the fabric my partner Kerry sent. Isn't it gorgeous! 

It was from the Bumblebee range. 

Straight away I knew I wanted to make her Gail Pan's 

"Happily Ever After Sewing Bag" from her book 

Patchwork Loves Embroidery.

 

Instead of using Gail's stitchery, I did Kerry's initial using 

the "Stitcher's Alphabet" by Michelle Ridgeway.

  

I remembered I had these cute little heart charms so added one.

Kerry loved her bag!

 

This was my fat quarter that was sent to Julie (it was not a direct swap). 

It is from the Tilda Old Rose range. 

The colour is more like this than the photos below.

 

I received a lovely project pouch from Julie. 

It has a plastic front so you can easily see what's inside.

With the scraps, Julie made me a luggage tag. 

This is perfect as Noel and I are heading to Scotland later in the year!