A quick trip away............

 

This post is well overdue as it was a trip we took a couple of months ago........we had an invitation to a party and a scheduled specialist appt both a few days apart.........so a decision was made to take the van for a few days break......

We headed off on the Friday afternoon and had to cross the Murray River to get to Victor Harbour.............and the queue was so long we had to wait for the ferry to cross twice before we could get on..........

                                       

This was the view across the river at Wellington, a popular holiday spot and residence ...............

                                         

We arrived at the Victor Caravan park and were fortunate to get one of the remaining spots available.....

                                         

On the Saturday evening we attended the 50th wedding anniversary of my long time friends, Kaye and Lyn, and this was held at the Middleton Tavern which is not far from Victor..........

This was a photo  from their wedding and it looks so 70's! Very different styles to those of today.

On Sunday morning we attended church with some of Barry's friends.

Sunday morning we woke up to see that this tree had lost it's branch.....not too far from where we were parked.

                                                       

We enjoyed Sunday lunch with Claire who I went to school and then worked with........it was so good to catch up again.......

                                    

                                         A drive around the town followed lunch..............

                                         

                                        .......and a drive up to the Bluff, to look out over the town and sea............

                                                 


                                                 


                                                   

                                                 

On Monday I had an appointment at Mount Barker, and following that we went up to Mount Barker and climbed the summit.....

Mount Barker also has a lot of meaning for Barry and the gates at the showground are a memorial for Amos William Howard who discovered sub clover in 1869..........

We drove through Strathalbyn on the way back to the caravan and enjoyed tea of fish and chips sitting by the park there..................

                                          

                                         

                         On Tuesday it was pack up time and we journeyed home through the little town of                                                              Milang, on Lake Alexandrina..........

                                     

..........and then through the district of Brinkley, where I grew up and here is the local hall, and my parents both went to school in the little building on the right...................

                                              

..................and then called into Murray Bridge and visited with mum, before heading back to Bordertown, after a lovely few days away and lots of memories for us both.

That's all folks,

Be back soon with news of the next trip away.

Blessings, From Jude

Catching up once again............

 I'm way behind with blogging, I have been reading posts, but not left many comments. Apologies for that.

Have a few minutes sitting and waiting so here is a few recent, (and some maybe not so recent) happenings......

The weather here in South Australia has been very dry so far this year......not much rain recorded at all, lots people are out of rain water.....we did have some stormy weather with lightening and the clouds looked promising, but scant showers......

........and there were a few fires......this was actually 20km away.....

 

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I n other news we sold our pop top van......and this was saying goodbye as the new owner took delivery....

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I took my 'wares'  to the city for the SA Quilters March meeting as I was the shop for the evening..........I was very happy with sales before the meeting,  and looked foward to more afterwards........sadly the power at the venue went out just before the meeting closed and everyone went home instead of buying more....it was too dark

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I will be one of the shops for the Sunraysia quilters show, at Redcliffs on the first weekend of September,  so looking forward to that. 

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We ventured north for a day trip recently, and decided to try out the track through the Big Desert, which was a much better road than we expected.....and ended up at Murrayville which was the halfway mark to meet Jo and Tony from Mildura.

There were a few camp spots along the track, with toilets and water.....

We took Pat and Alan with us for the drive, and met up with Jo who is handing her quilt to me for quilting. 

We all enjoyed lunch at the local store....

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It was lovely to have the lovely Faye Packham and hubby Kim call in for a visit on their way through Bordertown to AQC in Melbourne.......

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Barry and I did have a few days away in the van......way back in February!! I shall do a separate post about that.....

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Other news includes recovery from a simple op and LOTS of resting and book reading and being waited on......

Tomorrow we are off up the highway for a very special occasion, and then we hope to pack up the van and head east and then north......

Be back soon

BLESSINGS, From Jude

Customer quilting update............

I believe I am well overdue for a customer quilting update. My apologies for a lack of blog posts lately. I don't know just where the time is going!! The days and weeks are flying by and here we are already into the first week of April. 

This quilt was made by Sherrel, featuring lots of sport fabrics...........and quilted allover with a bubble pattern............

                                                  .........and this fabric was the backing.............

Another quilt made by Sherrel, using Charm squares...........and quilted allover with swirls and feathers pattern............

This Zig zag quilt was also made by Sherrel, who has been very busy lately finishing off a lot of her UFO's. This was quilted with Whisper, a very popular pattern that I am using a lot lately.

This stack and whack quilt was made using a lot of older country style fabrics from years ago.........and was quilted allover with Songbirds e2e.

Kath made this quilt using one of my Ready, set and sew kits. This was quilted allover with Floppy Daisy pattern.

This applique quilt, called Anne's Legacy was made by Jill and custom quilted..........I have a few more of Jill's amazing applique quilts here in the queue.

Lois made this North Star quilt for a family member.................

........and it was quilted allover with a pattern called Celestia.

Chris made this quilt, This Way and that way, which was another Ready Set and Sew kit, using a collection of batik fabrics................she loves dragonflies, so I used a dragonfly loopy pattern.

We have another quilt made by Sherrel, using an amazing collection of black and white fabrics.........this is a disappearing Log Cabin quilt................and features a touch of red throughout, and was also quilted with Whisper.

Lyn made this cute Clamshell Bear quilt for a family member, and I custom quilted it..............

Shirley made this bear quilt for a great grandchild and it was quilted allover with a pattern called Inside Out.

Prue made this pretty quilt and couldn't decide how it should be quilted.....we thought it would look great customed, but she had no plan for it and did not know where it would end up and decided it should be quilted edge to edge. I hesitated about this and so I customed the centre block and quilted allover in the remainder. We were both happy with the final outcome. Sometimes it is hard to justify the time, and of course the extra cost for custom quilting a quilt.

That is the end of this post. I have done a few more QFO quilts that have been sent out for binding, so they will feature in another post. You can see that Max is getting some use in between other activities, which I shall talk about in another catchup post.

Blessings, From Jude