Great bag pattern!

Australian Homespun website has this fantastic bag pattern featured this month as a freebie -  How Charmed  
My very clever friend Khristina has designed this lovely bag - so jump across to download the directions on how to make this easy tote you can whip up over a weekend.

Another Gardeners Journal Block.

 Sooo..do you remember how last week I sewed one of the stitcheries back to front???
Well just to keep up my record, look what I did this week...

I guess there was a bit too much talking going on!! 
No problem though, didn't take too long to fix!!

So...another block completed for me!
Just need to trace some more stitcheries. An old xray viewer has turned up in my office so I am going to use it as a light box to trace some tomorrow at work LOL

Ooops!!

Well after my bragging in the last post - I discovered a mistake!!
I was sitting having my breakfast on Monday and the blocks were draped over one of the dining chairs and I was admiring them (as you do LOL) and I realised I had sewn one of the stitchery blocks on back to front!! It's the little snail block - if it was any of the larger blocks I think I would have noticed it as the back of my work is not too tidy! I just can't believe I had sewn it all together and even ironed it without noticing LOL

So I got to use my new unpicker from Dawn Hay in our swap and I had to do a bit of repair work!!

 

all fixed now!!

And for those family that read my blog, we went out for dinner on Monday night to our favourite Thai restaurant as my brother and family were passing through Sydney on their way back to Canberra from holidaying on the wet Gold Coast!

I hope everyone has had a great New Year!!!
I have had a week off and go back to work on Tuesday - unfortunately!!
I got a bit of time on New Years Eve to do some sewing as Craig was working.
I managed to finish another Gardeners Journal block and add all the missing bits to the block I thought I had finished before!

 

I also got another block finished for my Little Patchwork Village quilt:

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY WONDERFUL FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!

Hope you all have a great day as we celebrate one of the most important event in history!!!

City Lights

On the weekend we went into the city to have a look at the christmas lights andwindow displays. 

We had dinner at City Extra at Circular Quay  - this is what the menu looked like...a newspaper! The food was delicious - sorry no pics - I forgot!

This was the view from our table...

This was the huge christmas tree they put up in Martin Place every year....

Hyde Park Barracks also had a light display and the Town Hall was lit up as well....

The David Jones department store has christmas window displays every year as well. Each window here had the theme of a different christmas carol - they were so cute and such details in the puppets and displays. 

On the way home....

On the way home from Port Macquarie we took a detour through Forster/Tuncurry. We spent a lot of time holidaying here when the kids were younger as my father in law lived here for a while. But we think it has been about 14/15 years since we were here. But it is still a beautiful place and hasn't changed too much, hasn't lost that small seaside town feel to it ( unlike port macquarie LOL).

 There were some dolphins just outside the net here but my camera skills were not good enough LOL