Oh boy!

It only seems like yesterday that I last updated. The kids have been at me to get typing.
At the moment I'm unwell with infected sinuses, I don't feel like doing anything. Do I sound like I'm whinging? Yep, I am.

So much has happened since June.

I went down to Montville to my friend Leonie and had a 3 day sewing retreat where I ate too much and spent too much - it was wonderful. I had a play on her new long arm quilting machine that frightened the hector out of me. It is absolutely fantastic and Leonie makes it sing, me, I made it squark. I then went and stayed for 5days with my parents at Gympie and sorted out Dad's computer and finally after 11years altered the quilt on the guest bed. This quilt was in my parent's caravan and Mum thought is was too good for travelling so brought it inside the house to use on the guest bed. Small problem - van quilt's are made to suit a van bed that have rounded ends, so did the quilt, so on the normal bed we had to tuck the rounded end up and under and we did and always said one day when I'm visiting we'll get in and fix that. So now it's fixed, the job took about 1½hours and wasn't that hard. Isn't it always the way.

At Leonie's we visited Maleny Magic P&Q shop and i finally found the right material for the log cabin quilt for our bed, I worked it out on the computer and had all the measurements and the amounts of material needed, I even bought .25m more of each fabric. Big miscalculation, BIG. My bed is king I worked out for single. I made 56 blocks and kept thinking something is wrong here, finally the penny fell and luckily I was able to get more material, so now I can get in and finish the quilt.

At the moment I have a few irons in the fire.
1. A beginners quilt that I will be teaching in a few week's time.
2. My Heart's in Blue quilt that I am halfway through quilting.
3. My Redwork Annie quilt is pinned and ready for quilting - as soon as I finish Hearts in Blue.
4. The curtains for the front sleepout have to be altered for this house. I brought them with me from Samford, luckily was able to buy more of the same material and now just have to sew and alter. Finished one before these darn sinuses hit me for 6.
5. Halfway through the curtains to hang on my shelves in the Sew'n Shed the blockout is up, just have to finish the sleepout curtains so I can take down the make do curtains which just happen to be the ones that are for the Sew'n Shed.
6. Just thought I'd add that number, but I really do have another half a dozen things on the go. Knitting a pair of socks, finishing off heart blocks to send to quilters who need a long distance hug, still working on my ½" hexagon tablecloth and of course trying to get xmas cards made. I made a mental rule, if I sit down at this desk I have to make a xmas card before I do anything else. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

That'll do for this post, I promise to take photos of all of the above and post them here when I'm back on top.