A hobby with a love of sewing, quilting and embroidery. I live in Golden Beach, Caloundra on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. My husband and I have been retired here for 1o years and just love the lifestyle. We have two sons and four beautiful grand daughters. My hobbies include quilting, sewing and just hanging out in my sewing room. As you will see and you look through the blog how much I enjoy sew.

We are a group of 20 women, from Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, and United States who are interested in challenging our quilting and art skills. We have banded together to challenge ourselves every two months with a different theme or pallet. Saturday, August 18, 2012. The words are from a poem by the Breton poet, Anjela Duval. I wrote in the Uncial hand which is a Celtic hand. Grandparents came from Brittany, the Celtic part of France. See what we can al.

Collected fat quarters of red tones for a few years just in case I got around to putting this design together. Two and a half metres square. Now all I have to do is sandwich and quilt it. Saturday, May 03, 2014. Winding Ways in Blue and White. Tuesday, March 04, 2014. Just a little cot quilt. Tuesday, March 04, 2014.

About quilting and sewing, mostly. Monday, June 6, 2011. I thought I might have to pass on this one. Then I remembered that I have read and enjoyed a number of books from the series written by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Botswana. He portrays the Batswana as peaceful, polite, gentle and perfectly charming. See those Botswana diamonds? Tuesday, May 31, 2011.

Thursday, April 22, 2010. Provence Quilt Kits - Prices Reduced. I have reduced the prices on my Provence Quilt Kits listed on Etsy and also included a matching backing with each kit, making them marvellous value. They are all pre-cut kits, so less than a weekend of sewing and you will have a beautiful French Sunflower Quilt adorning your bed, or as a wonderful gift. Happy Quilting for now,. Thursday, April 15, 2010. It is at the Bundamba Turf Club on Saturday from 8am so come and say hello.

I am a quilt artist living in Australia. Friday, January 25, 2013. This post is way way overdue. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Dare to Dresden blg hop. 8221; Of course, there is a story behind that! .

SOME DAYS I TAKE A STEP, SOME DAYS I TAKE A STITCH. A journal of different mind thoughts. Count down to SPRING 2014. Monday, March 9, 2015. 2015 February 23 A very Frozen Niagara Falls. Welcome to the main tourist attraction area. Freshly fallen snow on the many trees. Ducks and Canada Goose enjoying the food. This is the water before going over the falls, not sure if you can see those dark blue rapids, but it sure looked cold from where I stood. No Maid of the Mist is to be seen. Looking from the falls .