Group project

Chooky emailed everyone going to Baradine about a kind of braid quilt she was making. Several of us bought the necessary rules and we began on the weekend

Our first look at Chooky's brand. A small piece of fabric is attached to each braid before sewing together, to create the zig zag look.

Here is Raewyns, and then they multiplied

Mine and Raewyns together. Two ladies made table runners with their jelly rolls. Once you sew all the pieces together, you trim the ends, measure the whole length , divide it by 5, sew in sashings and a border and you have a quilt. How good is that ? I have just finished sewing all the pieces together, I hope to get back to it this weekend.

My phone battery is nearly flat so I had better finish up.

Happy stitching. 

Baradine Saturday night

Saturday afternoon we have to leave the main room at Baradine, so set up for dinner can happen. Most of the ladies had drinks outside and watched the sunset,  I relaxed in the room and read.

The theme for this meet was Star and could be interpreted in any form.

Raewyn and I wore the stars for the night

Sorry will fix this photo when I get to the laptop.

Lea was the Milky Way, her necklace was eaten as the night went on 😁

Tina and Harriet were Star Wars characters,  they come up with wonderful ideas those two! 

The table and the room looked wonderful. Decorated by Chooky, Di and Miranda.

Christine and Janice wearing their stars.More of Baradine soon.

Happy stitching.

Tiki Tour back day 2 and a half

We continued our morning doing Adventure Labs at the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens in the Children's Zoo. They have some native animals and domestic animals and lots of birds.

Sleepy dingos

The back end of a Wombat

Wombat on his rounds 

That is all the zoo photos I took - do I hear a big sigh of relief?

I forgot this photo before, it was in the Memorial Garden and is the Jolly Swagman. Although he didn't look too jolly to me!!

So off to Melbourne we drove, one geocache was captured on the way.

An old tree stump on the side of the road.

We stayed overnight at the airport and then had to say goodbye the next morning - something I have done lots since I have lived in Aus, but it never gets easier!

That is all the Tiki tour photos, I will organise some Baradine photos and shopping photos soonish.

Happy sewing.

Tiki tour back 2

We stayed the night in Wagga Wagga at a lovely hotel, the next morning we headed out early to do an Adventure Lab, that was near the hotel 

These were painted on buildings in a lane behind the main street.

From there we went back to the hotel and packed up the car and drove to the next Ad Lab

This one was all about memorials

This was an amazing shop sculpture of a soldier on a horse pulling up another soldier

The memorial and eternal flame were being painted by men from correctional services in readiness for this year's ANZAC day.

From here we decided to walk to the next Ad Lab, unfortunately it started at the opposite end of the street to where we were, so we walked along

Stopping to smell the roses.

                                                    And to admire some street sculpture.

This one was all about the sculptures along the street, this was Vince or maybe Victor?

Sadly, I don't remember who this was, although the artist had based all the sculptures on people she had seen walking along the street here.

Some good signs

A lovely old building. 

Painted building we spotted.

Lots of photos here to turn around! Think I will stop here and continue with our last Aventure Lab in another post.

Happy stitching. 

Tiki tour back

We have been heading back down south via some Adventure Labs

We went to the Dubbo Botanic Gardens for the Adventure Lab and started in the Japanese garden

Then off to the dry garden

Back thru the Japanese garden to the Sensory garden

The entrance to the Sensory Garden

We got a cuppa from Press as recommended by Kylie then went to the Yummy Yarn shop also recommended by Kylie, some spending happened there 🤭

Then off we went to Forbes to finish an Ad Lab there

The last place was at the war memorial.

The view was stunning.

We continued on our way, our trip was a little longer as the navigator (me) took a wrong turning and we had to navigate our way back to where we were supposed to be

A small traffic jam on the road

I am off to sort some dinner.

Happy stitching.