1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Monday, January 5, 2015

My Second SAL With ChookyBlue

Hello my name is Sharon

I live in Far North Western Queensland,  Australia, on a cattle station. We hwve been in severe drought,  but I think the drought may have sort of broken in the last few days with some rain. Yesterday we 30mm, Friday 31mm. So now there are green shoots of grass peeking up through the red dirt. Which equates to happy bovines and equines,  and native wildlife.

As the heading states, this is my second Stitch-A-Long with the amazing Chooky and equally amazing Susan. I am excited to be undertaking an Anni Downs quilt, I love Anni's work.
I am going to mostly use fabric from my stash for Nature's Journey, so my quilt maybe a little bit "out there".
My Granny taught me to sew when I was eight years old, so I have been sewing the best part of fifty years almost. I used to sew my own clothes and clothes for my children,  but lost interest in that many,  many years ago!
How I got involed in quilting is a tale in itself, when I was living in Mossman in FNQ, I was in the paper shop one Saturday back in 1999, and a friend said oh I must come along, I would enjoy it sew much (at the time I was heavily into fold art), basically since that day I have never touched a paint brush!
So that is me in a nutshell!  


6 comments:

Susan said...

Thanks for the intro Sharon.
All us Aussies are hoping 2015 might break the drought - all over!

creations.1 said...

Nice to hear you have had some rain - you probably need a lot more though. Nice too that the needle and thread has replaced the paint and brush!!!

Peg - Happy In Quilting said...

Sounds like you have had good rain ....welcome

suzeblack said...

HI there..so glad you have had some rain...hope it keeps up for you. Looking forward to the stitch-a-long :) Suze. x

Chookyblue...... said...

nice rain.....not to get some follow up falls........would be great if the drought is broken.....it's gone on for too long........
have fun sewing with us..........

Khris78 said...

HI Sharon... I hope the rain has continued for you :)) happy stitching :)