broderie

on christmas eve

these are just some visions from the last few weeks, a trip to sydney, a drive to kyneton, some christmas parties and gatherings with friends, sewing times and sharing.

a visit to the crewel gobelin in sydney took me back to my working days at bustle and bows in east malvern and also my own shop broderie.

many new projects to stitch, along with many that i already have

at john and jean's home things were starting to look like christmas

a robin is always christmas to me, a family tradition !

a comfy and inviting spot on the couch with pretty cushions

we hired ourselves a bus and it turned out to be a brand new one and eight of us headed for the mountains with this trusty and all round good bus driver

we visited some very creative gardens

it was a very hot day, 45 degrees in sydney, supposed to be cooler in the mountains, supposed to be, but we all survived

a great spot to spend 'time' in the garden

even 'patchwork' with rocks in the garden

this was bus for the day, a very comfortable ride it was

in the next garden, the zebras had all left home for the day, cleaning stoves obviously

and we visited the sisters !

some of the clever sydney girls showed us their sewing, very patriotic

a lovely visit and a cool drink on another day was to a lovely nursery, this new hydrangea 'you and me' was just so beautiful

back to work from the sydney girls

this gorgeous piece of fabric the inspiration for a quilt

 

lots of stars

a little christmas at a friend's home

the man in the garden at kyneton

some embroidery from the group, nearly finished

some christmas at my place, simple but twinkling !

and we have all flown off to our different families and friends to spend another christmas, we are so fortunate ! i hope that you all have a beautiful christmas and a safe and happy new year, let us all pray and wish for only good news

thanks to everyone who follow me on this blog, over all the years, you let me know that you appreciate my efforts and my musings and the pictures i share, thanks for your comments and emails that i receive and i know that some just look ! i'll be back in 2016

 

catching up !

at the end of november i hosted another margaret sampson george workshop, please enjoy some pics from those two days

i was messing about with 'margstars'

just off the plane and on our way back from the airport, the teacher picked up this beauty at the favourite opshop while i was in the butcher buying the smoked salmon ! what a find for $15 australian dollars !

and so to catch up on some of the work the girls had been doing, and some new ones just starting this fun with fabric and shapes and marg's approach to making a quilt of our time

these two are some lozenge shapes from one of the borders of an msg quilt

the space and wonderful light available at gj's discount fabrics in fairfield in victoria, australia provided plenty of room for us all to spread

you see some people, 2 of them, bring many bags with some of there fabric collections just in case !

round the tables as i wandered to catch up with these girls, there were many pretty bags and collections

this image, now appearing in applique is from a colouring book i purchased some years ago in hobart from a lovely children's toy and bookshop. we have embroidered from the lovely images over the years (must reaquaint myself with my embroidered version) and trish is now creating the prince in applique for the centre of a quilt top.

anna had made good progress with hers, even taking it away with her on her european honeymoon 

narelle had been working on hers and you could see wonderful things happening

marie's stars were really beautiful

wendy appeared to be getting ready to set sail somewhere, i love the colour choices and the mix of fabrics in this, progress will be interesting and exciting

love the combination of gorgeous bits that will become another beautiful version of 'not the levanshall'

we all attacked the shelves of the shop

then when we got home armed with everything we could find or think of, marg had to get that tapestry off the frame so she could get it into her case (we did try fitting the whole thing frame and all in)

in the end we had to get the box cutter to work, it had been framed very well, never to be removed, but little did the framer know that one day it would be the much valued new possession of margaret sampson george 

then it was with cases packed 'the pear of us' headed off to sydney for more fun and workshops with the sydney girls and our dear friend jean,misslinen, the other pear in the 'the pear of us' !

in the next couple of days i'll be back to share with you some of those pics

i will be home all over the christmas and new year period, so if you are wanting to buy any of the available patterns for sale from margaret sampson george, trish harper or 'mrs sew and so' from my etsy store, the office will be attended. 

returning in a day or so ..........................................