Celebrate Australia Day

Happy Australia Day Friends.

This year more than ever, I feel the words of Dorothea McKellar's poem "My Country are especially significant.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me! 

 You will find me in my sewing room today, making some items for Aussie Hero Quilts and Laundry Bags.

 

On the sewing table

This quilt is my current work in progress. It will either become a Care Quilt or an Aussie Hero Quilt - I won't know till it is finished.

Made from a layer cake of "Lucy's Crab Shack" it has lots of quirky prints.  It is a simple and economical design.

 

My problem is choosing a layout.

Chevrons

Circles?

 

Diagonals?

 

What do you think?

OPAM 2013 has started

Yes OPAM 2013 registrations have opened.  

OPAM (One Project A Month) encourages participants to do just that - at least 1 project a month.

The lovely Kris of Tag along Teddies and Peg of Happy in Quilting are the hosts for his event.  Pop on over to either of thier blogs for full details and to sign up.

You can watch my progress over there on the right where I have a list of finishes.

See you back here soon.

In your words - or lack there of

Hello everyone who is 'hopping' over for the "In Your Words" blog hop.

Yes, I was scheduled to participate today, but came home from holidays to unexpected machine problems and couldn't get my project made.

This made me quite sad and I contacted Linda and she withdrew me from the list.  

I guess I then didn't want to link anything as I was just sad (and felt like I had let everyone down).

So please enjoy hopping and remember to thank Linda and Madame Samm for their great efforts in putting this all together.

Apologies again.

Debra

Creative Children

This adorably cute little man is E my youngest.

 

E and his grade 2 class have just finished learning to blanket stitch.

They all stitched a heart for a quilt for their Teacher's wedding.

 Miss Maybury had no idea what they were up to.  We had worked in lunch hours over the last 3 weeks.

 She was stunned

 and surprised, and happy.

 Group Hug.

I am so super proud of the kids.  They all worked really hard and they seemed to enjoy themselves.  Now it is back to my sewing for my deadline.