bev and ken

this is a remarkably lovely couple that are also retiring to Grafton, one more reason wayne wants to head that way..100 acres and quilting retreats..sounds good to me..have gammill will travel..nothing too posh just sewing with ya mates..yehah cant wait..with some 4wdriving to boot, nice tracks up hill and down dale..probably a sound proof music studio and a mother in law..but she's cool..max the dog and beau the cocky.....I will need lots of spare rooms for Madge and the sewing ladies..Madge is my friend Lorraine, a lively little Italian lady, that somebody recons when I talk about her it reminded them of dame Edna with her friend Madge..so the name stuck..shes cool laffs every time I call her that..told everyone I was going to her place for some wog soup the other day..she moved to next door but one from the next suburb away..partners in crime ya mite say..she also has a gammill longarm quilting machine, we whizz thru pantos in a couple of hours between us..and we laff and sing and dance to all the old rock and roll stuff she plays..life is fun ay Madge!!

righto thought I would introduce you to the people hubby works with...at kurnell oil refinery,bloody motley crew dont ya recon, but fun loving, thus all the silly bon bon hats..this was the works chrissy bash just our shift at deano and haleys place.my hubby last on the left with the lairy shirt..next to him a girl I went to high school with,always joke and tell her she is much older than me, in fact one yr but she was a year below me at school, I also tell her thats because I am much smarted than she is..lol..yeah right..her hubby is the shift supervisor..great bunch of people..next pic will be the couple who are also moving to Grafton when he retires..wonderful people..I look forward to seeing heaps of them when we all move....thats the plan move up grafton way in 5 yrs time.. and run quilting retreats..cant wait..cheers Pat

this is sally bear the second one I made,must say I enjoyed making the clothes and hat aswell as the bear..she has no ears because the hat wont sit right with them on, she looks perculiar when the hat is off..I love making bears,its like giving birth all over again, you just dont know how they are going to look till they are finished, its amazing how eye size and placement changes there faces..must take some more pics of them they are lovely..cheers Pat, doggie keeps nudging me, like you have had yours,wheres mine..lick lick..dinner that is...then I am going to do some more colouring in for the vic show quilt, must say I recon its gonna be a stunner..I like it when you impress yourself with things you muddle thru, new things,will post some pic asap,when its finished..cant see it now or I'd have to kill ya and ya mite steal my ideas..cant have that now can we..not till after the show....lol..nite nite..Pat

Well Hi everybody, its Anzac day at5pm, I have been up and had some" wog" soup and watched a karen mctavish DVD with Madge, bloody lovely soup thanks Madge, drank a bottle of bubbly with orange juice and now have found some photos on waynes puter,that I can blog wiff..so here goes..
This is a mystery bear I made at my friends place,she is lesley and her company is lesleys bears..they are very cute,even if I do say so myself..we where given the pattern but not a finished pic of what it is going to be, my hunch payed off, the head piece looked like a polar bear so there you have it I called her polly, she has a lovely pink belly,foot pads, 3 pink roses on her head and pink and green beads around her neck..she is beaudiful..I love bears and collect them often,like the other night I went to the chemist for waynes drugs, as I walked past, a lovely bear said"take me home "so I did, dont know why when I can make my own, I will round up some more photos of my bear family, no not my bare family and whack em in here..so long for now till I find some more pics..happy anzac to ya's,bought a tear to my eye watching it this morning,all the poor old diggers who where lucky to come home, most with there mates..those 3 x 15 yr old girls that got pissed and defaced the war memorial in bathurst in the early hours of this morning, I would name and shame,make them clean it off, everytime somebody did it..how dare they..they must make there mothers proud ay!!off the soup box cheers Pat

Easter,can't sleep

well,like I said,I woke up for the middle of the night obligitory pee and found my son had taken his friend home,so now I am roaming the house waiting for the phone call to come and rescue him...he doesnt have a good track record from this next town for some reason,thus the mother worrying, so,while I wait I mite as well tell you about my mystery quilt..last year I was lucky enuff to win the jinny beyer quilt challenge2006 and my prize was 150 meters of jinny beyer fabric..OMG..$4650 dollars worth,not a bad prize ay!!so,in the yahoo group I am in we are doing a mystery quilt, well what better way to use my prize..this is the first 2 rows, centre Paper pieced, then first go at flying geese..I was happy with the outcome,you see I am a longarm quilter,but havn't pieced many quilts...this will be about my 4th I think, I struggle with the precision of piecing,I tend to be a bit near enuff is good enuff,so this one I am trying very hard...my friend Misty from Adelaide bought me the wonderful book,of paper piecing..never thought I would like it but another friend showed me how to do it and bobs your uncle....when I retrive some of my other pics from my puter to this one I shall post a pic of the jinny challenge quilt,..its still out roaming the country,due back late june,I will be glad to see how it returns,you see it was all 3D and flowers,wonder how many of them has wilted in its travels..well I must sign off now as its a bit cool here at the computer..cheers Pat..pS happy easter you guys.xx