Sewing day with Caz

Caz came over today and we had a day to sew Laundry bags.  I had 7 bags all ready to go - patches on them and appliqued and cord channel stitched and ironed and ready to insert.  Caz sat at them and worked hard all morning and while she was stitching away at those I had another pile or eleven that needed th patches stitched on and the cord channels sewn.  Eventually I got all of that done and moved on to assembling the bags and I had one all done and just had to top stitch around the top when the phone rang.  One of my sons was not well and was in sick bay at school.  Of course by the time I got there he was probably 80% okay but he wasn't going to admit that till we got to the car!  Hmmmm.  But he did legitimately throw up so I guess he was allowed the afternoon off.  Caz had continued sewing while I went to get him and by the time I got home she had finished all seven plus top stitched the bag I had almost finished.  

That was the end of the sewing for the day but such is life.  

Now check these out!  I received these yesterday from Teresa FROM INDIANA USA.  How cool is that!

I really love the peace signs in that nine patch block!

And here are some more nine patches but these have been turned into a quilt by Christine - 

gorgeous earthy colours.

 

And now it is ready to post off.

I am not sure if I ever showed you these laundry bags that Christine also showed.

I bought some cute pink fabrics and pulled out some others that I had and here are some of my choices for the special pink blocks.  I am hoping to get the blocks made this weekend.

I probably won't be blogging tomorrow or Sunday - too much life happening - but i will be back online on Monday so watch this space!  

More quilty mail!

First up four fabulous laundry bags from Anne in South Australia!  These are going to be very popular!

I also received a gorgeous bundle from Kath in QLD including a girly quilt, some extra strips for the back, some fabric for binding and some $ for batting - someone is going to love this quilt!

And we weren't the only ones receiving mail.  This quilt and the two quilts made from quilt tops made by Tarnyia (which you can see here) all arrived at their destination this week.   This is for our quilting Major and was made by my new blogless friend from WA, Marg.  I haven't shown a picture of it before as I didn't want to spoil the surprise just in case our quilting Major read the blog.  I think it is wonderful.

 Love these stitcheries!  "the difficult done daily, the impossible performed overnight, miracles by appointment".  Cute huh! 

I don't think Marg or the Quilting Major will mind if I share a couple of portions of the thank you email Marg received.


"I received your very beautiful quilt in the mail today and you have certainly made my week, a truly high point in my time here. I can't thank you enough and to celebrate I'm going to change my bed linen, put it on my bed and sleep under it tonight. My office is filled with colour, quilts for the two girls on my team arrived today as well as the laundry bags. I'm a quilter myself so I'm in seventh heaven. Unfortunately apart from a bit of knitting there's been little opportunity to do any of that and I must say I miss it. I need to send the other quilts to different locations which are also very cold at the moment and I'll ask for photos of the quilts actually on the beds and send them to Jan-Maree to put on the Aussiequilt site. 


I don't underestimate the effect your quilts and crafts have on the guys over here. It's lovely to realise that so many australians are thinking of the troops over here and although we are very well looked after it's the little things that we all miss and gifts like yours bring home a bit closer and generally there's a warm glow. I know for a fact that the guys are enthusiastic about them as well."


If that doesn't give you a bit of a warm fuzzy feeling you must be a snowman!  


Till next time........keep spreading the word and happy stitching!