Catching up, yet again!

 Time to play catch up again with newsfromjude. Life seems to be speeding along so fast that I can't keep up! Planning is well under way for our October quilt show, although we know that in life these days, anything can be shut down at a moment's notice. Our state and a few other states of our country are currently in shutdown while authorities try to halt the spread of the Delta strain of Covid. 

I am currently working through the queue of quilts that are due to hang in the show, and have just come out of 2 weeks of custom quilting and now doing some edge to edge quilts to break up the strain. The elephant has left the room now, and I will post photos in due course. I seem to be the collection place for member's quilts who have gone away (or had intentions of going interstate but then couldn't!) and one of the beds here has currently got 16 quilts spread out on it. Some of them were delivered in bags, but it's not good to keep them folded up is it? This bed might be a nice warm place to sleep this winter, although the weight of all those quilts might not be very comfortable!

A couple of weeks ago I had another trip up the highway for an appointment and after a very early and cold start to the morning I arrived in time for breakfast with my mum and sister and her family.

I later discovered that the furniture removalist from Sydney who travelled through Victoria to Melbourne and then to South Australia and Adelaide, stopped at the Tailem Bend petrol station on his journey. In fact, he travelled on the same highway at the same time that I did, but thankfully I made no stops on this trip as I usually would. Just goes to show how easily things can turn around! 

Earlier in the year when things were "normal", DS and family (who live in SA) and DD3 and her family (who live in Victoria), booked their caravans into a Victorian park for the school holidays. I hadn't been over to Melbourne to visit, so decided a day trip to Halls Gap would be achievable for me. It didn't look like the trip was going to happen when Covid hit Melbourne prior to their dates, but the week before, the borders were opened for SA to travel to Victoria provided the relevant Border passes were obtained. DS and family travelled over on the Friday and I made a day trip on the Saturday.

 It was a lovely sunny day, although very cold. It is a very pretty area and the wildlife are very friendly!

They soon discovered that it is not a good idea to leave your loaf of bread on the table under the awning.

You might guess what happened just after this photo was taken!? No, she did not fall, but did lose the boot in the mud.

This is a pic of Lake Bellfield and that stone wall separates the lake from the caravan park.

It was a few days later that we learnt of the trail of Covid cases that the removalist van had created. And it is scary to think how close it could have been as we all travelled on the same road as that van on the same days. 

I had a specialist appointment "up the highway" today, but due to our state going into a 7 day lockdown it was cancelled until a later date. I had another appointment scheduled for tomorrow but that also is deemed non essential, so we sit at home and wait.

Last Saturday my fairy arrived for an extended stay, although that was before we knew the shut down was happening. Where ever you were at 6pm last night is where you need to stay for the duration, and so she stayed. We have been busy bees with lots happening, including bindings, sleeves, labels, sewing, sorting and quilting with Max. There will be no visitors for the next week, and we won't be going anywhere.  

Be back soon,

Blessings, From Jude

Testing

 Testing to see if the colour has gone back to black? Looks to be good. 

Be back another day, 

Blessings, from Jude

Back to quilts..............

Upon checking back into my posts I have discovered that the last post of customer quilts was on May 30th!! So, in case you might start to think that I have been sitting around twiddling my thumbs I shall catch up on the backlog of some quilting pics.

The first one was made by Erica and was booked for custom quilting. Erica and I were very happy with the way this turned out.

This Unicorn quilt was made by Ann at the request of a granddaughter and it was simply quilted allover with Dancing Hearts.

Sue sent me 3 quilts for allover quilting and asked that this one be done first for a family member. It was quilted with a pattern called Tapestry.  

Jenny makes a lot of quilts, and apparently her hubby made the comment that she hadn't made one for him! So here it is, and quilted allover with a circle pattern called Asti.

This was also made by Jenny with flannel fabrics so will be very useful this winter!

This hand pieced hexie quilt was made by Sue, and appliqued to a border. Sue wanted an allover bee pattern and it is called Busy Bees.

Sherrel made this quilt in lockdown and requested a fan or lantern pattern and this one was called Japanese lanterns.

Helen finished her Mystery and Mayhem (and Improvisation) quilt and this was quilted allover with Paper Poppies.

Marie made this quilt in 2020 and is the QGSA Mystery quilt, Around the Block and this was quilted with simple custom.

Another of Marie's quilts that was made in 2020 Isolation was the QGSA Mystery Pick a box and this was quilted allover with Dandy.

Prue has used up many of her scraps in the making of this amazing quilt! She said she enjoyed the process and got quite addicted to making the blocks. This was quilted edge to edge with Deb's Swirls.

This is not another quilt although it could be. It is the back for Prue's quilt and used up a panel that had been in her stash for a long time.

                                 The side borders of the back are of this elephant fabric.

Our local group make a quilt to be raffled for every exhibition and the funds are donated to a local cause. This year is was decided for members to make Wonky Log cabin blocks and they were given a piece of fabric to match colours to. It is always a challenge having many people make blocks for a quilt, so they were to be larger than needed and trimmed after. They were then assembled with sashing and cornerstones and the feature fabric added for a border and it then waited patiently for the quilter. I could should have quilted it allover, but decided that those "empty" triangles needed some custom quilting. Hopefully it will raise some funds for worthy causes.

 

This quilt has turned out to be quite large, at 74" x 94"! (and don't ask me how the type colour turned out to be blue, and I can't change it back to black)!!

The back of the quilt shows up the quilting well.

It seems the blue is here to stay and it's time to finish this post anyway. Maybe the next post will be back to black?? Computers can be frustrating sometimes. 

The last week has been busy but I shall save that for another post soon. Tomorrow I have to start dealing with the elephant in the room! 

Blessings, From Jude

 

Happy Birthday

 

It's always a trip down memory lane when there is a birthday as I look in the files for pics to post. Today we celebrate the 17th birthday of my 3rd grandchild. As of today she is a licenced driver and on her "P's". Look at the adorable little baby she was and how she has grown up over the years. 

The most recent photo was posted on the recent blog with other family pics. Hope you had a great day today. Lots of love from Granny xx

Blessings, From Jude

Family.....

 Here we are and another week has whizzed by, so perhaps an update of newsfromjude is a good idea before the next week is done as well??

I have been collecting a few family pics recently so this post is dedicated to family. Looking back it doesn't really seem very long since I was leaving home and having my own family, and in the blink of an eye I have 2 granddaughters who are not far away from being 21!! How does that happen?

DD1 and family.............

DD2 and family..................

DD3's little ones 'over the border'..........

DS's family..............

EXTENDED family...........

I had a trip 'up the highway' on Friday for some appointments and took Mum for lunch. She phoned my brother, and before long a twosome turned into a sixsome! (Unfortunately my sister was unable to be there). As expected I took a photo to record the event, and brother dear said "I suppose this is going on your blog!" Well, of course it is, as the blog is a record of my life and this is part of it. Which reminds me that we have finished June, so it must be time to order the blog book for January to June! I am getting quite a collection of books now. At the end of July it will be 10 years since I started blogging! Perhaps it will be time for another competition?? Watch this space.

 Winter is certainly with us and temperatures are very cold and we are being blessed with good rains. The temp on Friday hardly moved past 10deg and this weekend is not a lot better. It is cold for this area, and a comment from a blogger on Zoom yesterday told me what cold really could be!! (Hi Lou, in New Zealand!) 

I will post a photo from the Zoom bloggers gathering yesterday. It was great to 'meet up' with bloggers from all over the world, even if it was only for a short chat. I had a few interruptions for my day to prevent a longer visit. I know they started at 6am New South Wales time, which was Friday afternoon on the other side of the world, and plans were for them to be on until evening. I know that this post is titled family, but I feel like I can include this pic as these ladies are all part of my blogging quilting family and it is fantastic to chat and listen and get to know them. Thank you Chooky for organising these sewing days in the last year since Covid struck.

It's time to finish up this post, and head to the lounge and the wood fire and the book that I have half read. Tomorrow is another quilting day, and I am heading into a couple weeks of custom now. I hope to be back soon with an update of recent quilting photos.

Blessings, From Jude