Trip to the snow

For months we have been promising the kids a trip to play in the snow, and we finally did it! I took a week off work and pulled them out of school for a few days and we took off. Only a 3 hour drive to the nearest snow resort, not really a resort more a little village with a toboggan run.
Kids had a great time, we did quite a few hikes, played in many playgrounds, ate at alot of country bakery's and even rescued a horse from the road!
Some of my fave pics, we hiked to the summit and that's where the real snow was so they attempted to make snow angels and a snowman and they all ate some. lol. On the toboggan run it was man made snow so more of an ice chip than fluffy and white but still a great experience.

Next vacation? Queensland!!

Charm Square Christmas

I found a nice stash of pre cut 5" charms in a box that I thought contained an iron? So on Thursday night I pulled out all the red, green and white print ones and sewed into pairs. Then I sewed into 4's. Then 2 lots of 4's. Then added another 4 and created 12 rows of 12. Creating a quick and easy quilt top.

Will make a nice gift for someone this Christmas, most likely a teacher or one of Cate's many dance coaches. I have folded up and put away for now, need to stock up on wadding then get into the spirit of sitting and quilting.

Sheep and Alpaca Show

I took Oliver the the local Sheep and Alpaca show yesterday. When we get our farmlet I want some sheep. I have pretty much settled on the Wiltipol Sheep, despite them being marketed as lean meat sheep (we do NOT eat lamb). There pros - no shearing, no tails, good in wet conditions, high baby production and they apparently stay in there allocated paddocks, ha!

And to protect all my lambs, we will be needing a few Alpacas. Brown ones. One called Kerry and the other Rupert, lol.

Not sure how Oliver will go with the whole farming thing, he stepped in sheep poo and complained about the smell and was worried the sheep were going to bite him. But he was curious about the judging and seemed happy enough just to look. Really need to step up the hunt for our land so we can get this project happening.



The charms are rolling in

Rose sent a whopping 496 plus 87 Christmas prints!!

It's not to late to sign up, comment below and I will email you the details, the more the merrier.

Instagram Fun

Loving my iphone, some quick pics; strip pieced half square triangles. All 2.5" squares in bright modern prints. These are the corners from the boys quilts, need about 900 to make a single bed size, loving it so far.

And Cate who's so happy, happy, happy! We had family over on the weekend which equals a younger cousin to play with, oh how she misses her cousins in Perth. Lots of balloons and streamers, food and jelly, good times. No pinata though, maybe next time.

And Kipper, who is usually mad as, she hates the cold, hates visitors, the neighbours dog, the kids being loud after school, the bin truck, the vacuum cleaner and has a big fear of the mop.

Ok enough spam, quilt pics to come, have some serious WIP happening.

Charm Swap - including Christmas prints.

Lots of lovely participants in my charm swap, great to see some blogged posts too! I have been cutting and cutting, some of my fave prints in here including Amy Butler, Joel Dewberry, Kei, Kona, and novelty prints, Moda florals and some of my Spotlight lovelies.

I am also doing a separate Christmas swap, same 5" size but will keep these prints away from the other swap so you will only get Christmas prints back if you send some Christmas joy. Still plenty of time to sign up, post here.

Coldest day in four years??

Really? Well it was cold but not so cold as to make it snow. And anything with a top of 10 is freezing for us, but we are hoping it gets colder so there will be some local snowfall.  I think the only one really loving this weather is Muffin, with his super thick coat he's either outside frolicing in the wind or indoors on one of the kids beds, preferably Cate's as he can camoflage himself and be left alone.
I spent most of yesterday watching the rain fall while working on the boys pow wow quilts. No idea why I decided to make two quilts the same, the repetitive cutting and chain stitching is so boring. I know they will look fantastic when completed, to me the quilt pattern screams boy. I just need to persevere and get to the next step and not let them become another WIP.
So far I have completed 180 top blocks, (you need 100 top and 100 bottom blocks per single bed quilt) so yeah, have a long way to go. Best get back to it.