Boxes, boxes and .......

More boxes.    Five more sleeps until moving day for hubs and I so it has been a packing marathon around here.    I can finally report that my sewing room is now all packed up and ready for the removalists on Thursday morning.   

If you would like to see what should have been happening on FNSI - sewing that is - then pop on over to Wendy's blog.

I am not sure when I will be back here as the internet has yet to be connected in our new home - hopefully that is going to happen on Wednesday but we all know about the best made plans of men and mice - so in the meantime

Happy sewing all

FNwF

My Friday night was spent not sewing but doing more packing up in my sewing room in preparation for our move in just under two weeks time.  

I am now having withdrawal symptoms from my sewing machine and so looking forward to getting my new sewing space organised.   

Time to head on over here to see some actual sewing that others did last night.  

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Salt & Sand Blog Hop

Since signing up for this blog hop "circumstances of life" have changed around here at the moment and sewing time has been severely limited so instead of pulling out of the hop I decided to revisit a previous item made that I think will fit in perfectly with the theme.      I made a series of Sunbonnet Sue wallhangings to represent each month of the year for my granddaughter's bedroom a few years ago and the one for November  was called "Seaside Sue".    November is the month that we in Australia start to think about heading back to the beach as summer in only a month away.     

Time to head on over to the following blogs to see more Salt and Sand.

 March 22

Creatin' in the Sticks

Selina Quilts

That Fabric Feeling

Days Filled With Joy

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Karen's Korner

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Crafts and Math

 

March 23

MooseStashQuilting

Life in the Scrapatch

Food for Thought

For The Love Of Geese

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Karrin’s Crazy World

Sew Many Yarns

Kathy's Kwilts and More

 

March 24

Ms P Designs USA

DayBrook Designs

Vroomans Quilts

Kathleen McMusing

Quilt Schmilt

The Darling Dogwood

Daughters of Dorinda

Annie’s Musings

 

March 25

Quiltscapes

Beaquilter

Stitchin At Home

The Joyful Quilter

Scrapdash

Freckled Fox Quiltery

Quilts Fabric and Thread Tales

Words & Stitches

 

March 26

Just Let Me Quilt

Websterquilt

Quilting Gail

Samelia's Mum

Quilt Fabrication

Little Penguin Quilts

Just Sew Quilter

Inflorescence

Thank you Carol  for organising such a fun blog hop.

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

7,8,9

Not much has been happening in the sewing room  over the past few weeks as hubs and I have made the decision to "downsize"  from our family home of 45 years to an apartment in an  over 55's village.    We have been thinking on and off of moving over the past 2 years and we finally took the plunge and put our house on the market after we saw what we hope will be easy independent living for us both.   

So the past couple weeks has been us both culling, sorting and packing.     One seems to accumulate a "lot of stuff"  and when going through it you do have to ask yourself "why did I keep this?"    Many trips later to the tip and the Salvos  - with a few more to go - has seen a lot of it moved and the spare room is lined with packed boxes of things that we will not need - hopefully - before we move which should be in about 6 weeks time.  

I have left my sewing machine unpacked for the moment and did manage in between packing boxes and signing contracts to get blocks 7, 8 and 9 of the HST quilt sewn together.   

This only leaves 3 more blocks to go.   

Thanks Wendy for hosting another fun FNSI.

Linking with Put Your Foot Down

                      Finished or Not Friday

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Down one side.....

Flip and repeat on the opposite side. 

That was the progress made in starting on the next 3 blocks for the HST sampler.    

Next comes the job of separating,  pressing and trimming them up. 

Linking with Put Your Foot Down

                      Finished or Not Friday  

                      Patchwork & Quilts 

Back soon and in the meantime

 Happy sewing all

FNwF

This past week has seen me make some progress on the  HST sampler that I am working on.     When joining Cheryll and the others for FNwF I finished off block no 6.    This is what block numbers 4, 5 and 6 look like.   

I am now officially at the half way point - 6 done and 6 to go.    

Don't forget to check out here what others achieved last night.

Linking with Finished or Not Friday

                      Put Your Foot Down

                     Patchwork and Quilts

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Table Scraps

Yellow is the rainbow colour for February.   My yellow table scrap offering is

To see more yellow table scrap offerings head on over here.

Linking with TGIFF

                      Patchwork & Quilts

                      Finished or Not Friday

                      Scrap Happy Saturday

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all