BOM underway and things to share

The BOM using the 13th Anniversary designs from BFC Creations is well and truly underway. Blocks 1-3 have been sent out to those who have signed up to receive them.

BFC 13th Anniversary BOM Block 1

BFC 13th Anniversary BOM Block 2

BFC 13th Anniversary BOM Block 1

Choon has sent in some photos of some small quilts she has made using he Bridie's Blossoms One Metre Wonder patterns. The links to these patterns can be found under the Free Pattern/Free Project Tab at the top of the page.

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My friend Lexie has finished quilting her beautiful BFC 10 000 member BOM quilt.

Lexie's BFC 10 000 member BOM quilt

Sandy's blue colouway BFC 12th Anniversay BOM quilt just sings to you from the page.

I have been making some penguin key fobs to give to visitors when they come to see the penguins on a Saturday night. We have some beautiful baby penguins growing like weeds.

Lilly The Penguin Key Fobs

New BOM is underway

The new BOM using the free 13th anniversary designs from BFC is underway. Block 1 instructions as well as the requirement list have both been sent out via email. If you are on Comcast or AOl those providers may have blocked my emails. There is till time to sign up for this BOM but you must download the free designs as they come up. I am using the Grace set of fabrics from Connecting Threads in this quilt. The Rose patterned fabric will be the outer border.

BFC 13th Anniversary Block 1

Urban Threads have a cute freebie just in time for Christmas Stitching

Don't forget to visit  Creative Machine Embroidery and download their latest freebies.

Heads up and new BOM

Suz from has once generously offered another free set for her BFC 13th Anniversary. I will be doing a BOM with this set but it may be a longer time frame than usual. Suz only has each new design up for 2 days so you must download them, If you miss any they will be available for sale and she is having a 70% off sale right now while the set is being released. You will find each new design on the BFC Creations Home Page or New arrivals page.

I have sent an email to all of those who participated in the 12th anniversary BOM. If you wish to participate and have not received you can reach me HERE.

Whilst we were in Canberra we were once again visited by many birds. The magpie who visits often came back as well as these two glorious king parrots.

Male king parrot

Female king parrot

Magpie

Pictures from my visit to Canberra

We visited out daughter in Canberra during September. I caught up with some sewing pals and went out to lunch with them.

 We also visited the garden spectacular that was Floriade.

These swamp hens and their gorgeous chicks nesting in the lake  kept everyone entertained at Floriade.

Swamp Hen chick

Swamp hens with their chicks

Darlene has sent in some photos of her pole twist table runners

Darlene's Pole Twist Table runners

This is a quick and easy table runner and looks great in Christmas fabrics. The link to download the tutorial is HERE

Last night we had a few glimpses of the supermoon. With all of our rain recently  we were lucky to get any.

Supermoon November 14

Supermoon November 14

It has definitely been a while

It has definitely been  awhile since I last posted on here. I am pleased to say that things are starting to gt back to normal. I had to have an unscheduled check up at the beginning of October due to some concerns but that went well and I have my next check up early January. The only ongoing treatment am having is physio for lymphedema.

However, I have not been idle since my last blog post. I have now completed 5 units of my Diploma of Family History through he University of Tasmania and currently working on units 6 and 7. The final unit will be in early 2017 and hopefully I will graduate in August 2017.

We have just been to Hobart to spend some time with my husband's family. This was to celebrate our 60th birthdays but that was postponed from July when I was unwell. We spent some time visiting friends, doing family history research and went to the cinema to watch The Light Between Oceans which is set in Stanley Tasmania. Beautiful scenery an dour nephew was one of the stand in townsfolk. We visited St Matthews Church in Glenorchy and found the headstone of one of my gggg grandmothers, Susannah Mortimer. We were thrilled to find some of her history showcased in artwork on a nearby wall. Susannah was one of the very early settlers to Tasmania. 

Susannah Mortimer O'Brien

We also visited a salt pan lagoon at Tunbridge in the midlands. I lived at Tunbridge with my family until I was 10 years of age. In years gone by people would harvest the salt left in this salt pan when all of the water dried up in summer. The day we visited was extremely windy as you can hear in the video.

I have made a baby quilt for the new niece of my daughter's housemate. It is stitched using the new Baby Elephant Applique set from Hatched in Africa. I have written a tutorial for this quilt and it can be downloaded from HERE.

Baby Elephant Quilt

Bridie's Blossoms packages were also delivered to our Hobart Hospitals whilst we were visiting last week. I also made some key fobs for the very hard working midwives.

Bridie's Blossoms Packages.