Last Weekend....

Don't know what happened to last week but here I am a week later with an update on our Mother's Day celebrations in Sydney - postponed from the week before last weekend - due to inclement weather!!
We had  lovely day - with an "at home" high tea.... including a glass of champagne!

A secret sewing project from the past few weeks was a book bag for my mum - she is an avid reader so can store her current book in this......

(A Marg Lowe pattern)

And.... what a coincidence - the Northbridge Quilters had their exhibition the same weekend - just around the corner from Mum & Dad's...... there were some beautiful quilts - some you just wanted to wrap yourself in! The exhibition included many quilts made over the 35 years the group has been together.... here are just a few - including some from the garden.....

And a raffle quilt which - sadly - I did not come home with......

While still on the topic of this year's Mother's Day once again Megan sent me a message from overseas - as she has for the past 3 Mother's Days she hasn't been here for......

This year it was from a "Glen of Bluebells" in Canterbury, Kent.

Megan has still been busy travelling - while not working in England - wedding plans have not progressed very far.... I think she is enjoying her travels and seeing new countries too much (while James stays working back in England)....recently she added Bosnia and Serbia to her list of countries visited (I think that was country number 40 and 41?) and currently is in Morocco which will be followed by Portugal ...then back to work in England again.....

And... this week DD1 Hayley and her partner are off for a short holiday to Thailand..... My turn must be coming around again soon! 

Meanwhile..... the last week has seen me take out this project again......

....Here I am trying to work out where exactly I was up to when I put it aside over a year ago...... back on track again.... but rows seem to take forever and it's growing ever so slowly (Pattern is from Attic 24)....... also these socks were finished the other day....to be gifted soon to a friend with a Winter birthday! 

And that's about it for now from me....

Happy Stitching

Asta

... and 2 weeks later...

Yes....time does fly and here it is just over 2 weeks since I was last here!.... a bit of catching up to do....

Well the needles were clicking away after my purchase of wool and a knitting book....

 to this.....

 then after felting to drying into shape......

 ...still drying as we speak but hoping it does stay in shape as a little bowl! 
Mug mats were finished a couple of weeks ago but had to be "gifted" before I could show them here.....

 ...using one of Anni's patterns from Gossip in the Garden - a mug mat for my friend Dzintra for her birthday and using hexagons (love EPP!) a mug mat for my dear Mum for Mother's Day.....

And talking about Mother's Day - my "travelling overseas" daughter Megan - now in England as her working stint in the French Alps finished mid-April -  sent me her Mother's Day message from a break wall in Kent!...

(Last year it was a big cardboard sign from Sweden!) 

 My secret sewing is still on-going.....

 ...but just today I handed it over to be quilted - and hopefully should have it back early next week to sew on the binding - this is being "gifted" at the end of the month so you could say we are under a little pressure here!!
                                                This.....

is now finished and I can tick off my book challenge list "a book with a number in the title". I did a bit of research about the title following on from a comment on my last blog and discovered that this book was published in England in 1939 under this title, in 1940 in United States under the title of "Ten Little Indians" and over the following years has been published and written as a play under the title of "And Then There Were None".....(thanks to Google) 
Our local theatre's latest production which I'm stage managing has now started so rehearsals are over - they always seem to take up so much more time than the actual show and except for the occasional Sunday matinee most shows are in the evenings so weekends are free again....time once more to catch up with friends over lunch... 

And if the sun hasn't quite got there yet climb to a higher spot!

Happy Stitching.... and thanks for visiting!
Asta

Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the mums out there...... hope you all had a truly lovely day...whatever you were doing.....

I have spent the last few days driving with my younger daughter...firstly an unscheduled trip to Sydney on Thursday to pick up some documents for an overseas trip she is shortly to embark on.....then Friday to Canberra where she had to get a few more things for her trip - a bit of shopping on Saturday before finishing off  at Koko Black...

Cinnamon Hot Chocolate & Florentines....YUM!

..... After which we headed up the highway again this time to my sister's place in Bundanoon where today we celebrated Mothers Day together with my mum & dad who had come down from Sydney.... Will share a couple of Autumn photos from my sisters lovely garden.... you can tell Autumn is my favourite season!....

Considering I live on the far South Coast we did cover a lot of kms! ..... 

While away for those few days I did manage to start another pair of socks and there should be some other projects to share with you soon.....till then.....

Happy Stitching

Asta