A Very Special Birthday...

...for a very special lady.
Today is Sheila's Birthday, and yep it is one of those Big '0' birthdays, a birthday that calls for cake, and in a normal world we would have had cake, but today we make do with a promise of cake when this is all over.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEILA X X X

We know you will have many 'Skype' family visits and even a 'social distancing' visit or two. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Jan sent along some lovely eye candy for us.
"These are for my granddaughter in Scotland and don’t know when she will see her parcel!
I made her dress from donated fabric given generously by Ailsa.
The little bunny was for Easter this year but should still be good for 2021!

Still keeping busy with sewing those UFOs and succeeding."

Sue A. has also been busy finishing another U.F.O. and chucks out this challenge (with a hint no less) to you all.
"Can you tell the front from the back.
I like the back better than the front, but then that’s me."

Now just because this crazy world we now inhabit needs a few shortcuts, here are two that will save you time and perhaps a few $$$'s
Firstly, if you have been a little tardy in keeping up your mask supplies and need a quick fix, follow this lassies smart idea. Pretty well self explanatory!

Gave it a burl, works o.k. but definitely not suitable for getting all energetic and carried away with the cleaning, its a gravity thing!

Rumor has it that everyone is finally finding time for some in depth house cleaning, and if the supermarket shelves are anything to go by, boy oh boy, there is some major cleaning going on so when this handy hint was spotted, claiming to clean the whole house in 10 mins, immediately thought 'What a good idea' have to share that one,

So now you have a lovely clean house, make up a batch of these 'original' Anzac biccies then settle down to quilt, quilt, look for inspiration and quilt some more!!

Enjoy your day.
Tomorrow is closing day for the 'Guess Who?' competition, so if no other entries we have 9 names and 12 pics (yep, a few double ups just to add to the challenge!!!!
When the list goes up tomorrow morning the first person to get all names correctly matched to a photo (not all photos have to be matched) and sent to my e-mail or mobile phone wins!!! and the winning prize is ???? still a mystery and who doesn't love a mystery!

Another Virtual Quilt Show

Lainey sent us a link to the SAQA Quilt week virtual quilt show. As you scroll through click on any pic you might like a closer look at.
This quilt, titled 'Lunacy' rather captured my imagination, sorta sounds apt for the times we are traveling through

https://www.quiltweek.com/saqa-aloft/?trk_msg=MO0NU87CGNKKDDEVR40KFODEOG&trk_contact=S7DAB3096UTG8UHUFPCJQ3AM68&trk_sid=5K6TDKD4L524R3TBALQDDTPEN4&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAQA%3a+Aloft&utm_campaign=AQS+QuiltWeek-2020&utm_content=AQS+QuiltWeek-2020
Enjoy, and thanks for the link Lainey.


Jackie suggested links to the more unusual of our craft, so what an opportunity when this link was also on the e-mail from Lainey.

'English Paper Piecing by Machine'
a complete class on D.V.D., the blurb reads "We all love the look of precision that English paper piecing creates. Get that same precision with English paper piecing on your home sewing machine! Karen K. Stone has taken a difficult traditional block and made it easy and fun"
https://shop.americanquilter.com/11083-dvd-english-paper-piecing-by-machine-complete-iquilt-class.html?trk_msg=MO0NU87CGNKKDDEVR40KFODEOG&trk_contact=S7DAB3096UTG8UHUFPCJQ3AM68&trk_sid=5K6TDKD4L524R3TBALQDDTPEN4&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=iquilt&utm_campaign=AQS+QuiltWeek-2020&utm_content=AQS+QuiltWeek-2020
A quick look with the lowest postage of $3.01 the cost would be approx AUD$40---very tempting I must say!

There was also a youtube link to an interview with Sandra Mollon who won APQS Best Movable Workmanship Award at AQS QuiltWeek - Spring Paducah 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PZQaNRg24&trk_msg=MO0NU87CGNKKDDEVR40KFODEOG&trk_contact=S7DAB3096UTG8UHUFPCJQ3AM68&trk_sid=5K6TDKD4L524R3TBALQDDTPEN4&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Sandra+Mollon+Inteview&utm_campaign=AQS+QuiltWeek-2020&utm_content=AQS+QuiltWeek-2020
So chuck that duster to one side, make a cuppa and follow the links above for some fun quilting time, and after lunch you can do some learning - again courtesy of Lainey, go look up Albrech Durer and his magic squares, loads of info and youtube vids...Have Fun!!

Got a rather excited call from one of our members, she has cracked the secret to Free Motion Quilting! Yeah! True!. It's all rather simple really, you just roll your tongue around your mouth whilst zooming that quilt under the needle, the tongue roll is all about the 'steering and control' She is willing to give us a demo when we all get back to gathering at the Cottage - So there's something for us all to look forward to! Can't wait!

More pics of the younger versions of your quilting mates are on the 'Guess Who' competition page. Pop on over for a smile and see if you can place some names to the faces. There are 12 pics from 9 entrants so far.
Sandy, Wendy, Sherrye, Janice, Estelle, Sheila, Andrea, Lorraine, Sue A
Good luck guessing, there is still time to join in the fun, with a chance to win the grand prize of ???? entries will close Friday

The Ultimate Face mask tutorial

If you are making masks and need a laugh, or even if your not making masks, give yourself a cheer up with this lady, she's a real hoot!
Face Mask with Kay Pruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c5eo_3-y0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1F3QW_zCCsJkVSyVnAJKFVlxebFggBivwKXz--ATtDQiiSCNAcnVUCJ2c

We have 3 new pics for you to ponder over on the 'Guess Who?' competition page, fascinating to peek into some past lives.

Some other links, you be the judge on how helpful they may be:
Remember the bucket hat with the plastic face shield?, well someone has come up with a tutorial,

Tutorial Link: https://www.ageberry.com/how-make-bucket-hat-diy-sewing-pattern/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sew_something_cute_and_simple&utm_term=2020-04-15
and for the free pattern, pop over here: https://www.ageberry.com/resource-library/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sew_something_cute_and_simple&utm_term=2020-04-15

The fatquartershop.com has posted a tutorial with Corey on 'Big Stitch Hand Quilting'https://blog.fatquartershop.com/try-big-stitch-hand-quilting-with-corey-yoder/?utm_campaign=481281_WNL%20-%20Blog%20Showcase%20-%20April%2015%2C%202020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Dotdigital&dm_i=5D15,ABCX,3UDJ7I,12QZW,1

Came across this idea on using 'receipt tape scrap strips', looks rather cheerful and a good way to use up tiny pieces of fabric.

There is a mile of tutorials on the web, here is a link to one tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Iq9TB6XQg

Guess Who

Well, this is going to be a blast!, so far we have 6 pics and 4 entrants.

But first one of those dreaded U.F.O'S has bitten the dust.

Yep, Sue has had success...

"Going through boxes when I was trying to do my "Tidy and chuck" (which I still intend to finish) I found things I had forgotten all about. The three panels in this quilt for instance.

I don't know just what I had in mind for the panels when I made them, and I think the fabric originally intended to finish it off went to another project. But I found some fabrics in another box to finish it. I have plenty of boxes with plenty of fabric.

Now on with the next U F O"

Bet you're all feeling inspired now!.

GUESS WHO UPDATE: 26th April. The competition has closed and we have a winner.
Janice matched a photo to each name correctly and has won her choice of 2 fatquarters from Kimz Sewing and Patchwork, Congratulations Janice.
We also got 2 late entries last night from Karen that I'm including here, Karen's story is a bit of a hoot.

This cutie is none other than Betty

Karen's Story:
"Okay - so I am in the middle - with what some would say is a fancy dress
costume on.
I will have to correct you - it was my pink silky negligee. Yes, my
parents would let me walk around everywhere with that over my normal
clothes.
This phase of my life only lasted for TWO years. I often think about that
negligee, who owned it before me and what were my parents thinking!"

Guess Who? competition. Rules (really? rules?) anyhoo, same as the Guess Who's sewing room, except that multiple pics will be entered as singles, that is, no connecting of the pics.....heheheh.... The competition will run for a couple of weeks, providing of course there is a continuance of pics arriving. There will be a prize for the first totally correct answers to hit my e-mail or phone, they are all date:time stamped so an easy fix.

Pic 1-- Sheila
'I haven’t changed much in xx years ??' Had to edit that one, dead giveaway...

Pic 2--Lorraine
"Cute, wasn’t I??
The dress was pink with large black sequins. I helped mum sew on some of the beads and sequins. It was for my ballet school’s end of year show. Can’t remember what the dance was about but I wasn’t in ballet shoes in the photo.
The hat was made of cardboard and stitched together then painted with glossy house paint to match the costume with more sequins probably glued on."

Pic 3--Sandy
"Here is my school photo aged 16. Where did that young thing go?"

Pic 4--Sandy
" love this Grade 1 photo. I wonder if anyone can pick me out"

Pic 5--Janice
" Photo of me in Grade 4"

Pic 6--Janice
"First day of High School"

UPDATE:
2020 17th April.
Pic 7--Sherrye
"I am saying hello to “peanuts” our mischievous shetland. I am 9years old here."

Pic 8--Sue A.
"I think I would have been 14 when it was taken and the bush behind me is called Yesterday Today and Tomorrow."

Pic 9--Sherrye
"A cute 4 year old showing off my pretty dress"

UPDATE 21st April
Pic. 10--Andrea
"Taken after our regular Saturday basketball game, was 15 at the time."

Pic 11--Estelle
"I’m about 15
It is my 60 year reunion from senior this year, where has the time gone!"

Pic 12--Wendy
"Me at primary school. I made this dress."

We have a new competition

Karen sent out a heads up yesterday, Sheila has come up with another great competition for us to stretch our minds.

'Guess who?'

Send a pic of yourself as a schoolgirl to my gmail account, the pic will be numbered and your stitching friends get to guess who,
so get those photo albums out gals, and send us a memory.

Betty has been faffing around with bunnies, she shared these with us via Karen D. Talk about Cute!!
"Betty's " Isolation EASTER CRAFT,
Living up to my "FIDDLE-BUM" reputation..!!"

a closer peek at those bunnies.

Jackie has some links for us,
"A lady in Wellington NZ has a blog and Instagram I look at quite a bit, she sews a lot, hand and machine, as well as stitchery, and big stitch hand quilting.
Wendy welsh quilter.......she does have a couple of YouTube’s there showing how she does the eight pointed star, also on blogspot page a reference to Anna Marie Horner who was in NZ last November.....On Wednesday page we sometimes see her mother who also does lovely work"
Thanks Jackie, the links are:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGJwf_3zaOw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendysquiltsandmore/?hl=en
Wendy's Blog: https://wendysquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/

Easter Saturday 2020 - Boy oh Boy, we will never forget this one!!

There have been so many wonderful Easter Fairs held at the Cottage over the years, but none of us will ever forget the Fair that wasn't.

If you are feeling a little nostalgic and just want a feast of Fair eye candy, then slip back 10 years and come on a wander through the Cottage with me and perhaps visit your 10 year ago self, who never would have thought today possible.
A walk through the Cottage, part One. https://buderimpatchwork.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk-through-cottage-on-fair-day-part.html
Continuing the walk, part Two https://buderimpatchwork.blogspot.com/search/label/Easter%20Fair%202010%20Part%20Two

Now make yourself your fave beverage, sit back and enjoy a few minutes reclining on the benches, gazing out to sea.

ahhhhhh. The serenity.
Or if you are more of a bush babe, this might be more up your alley.

Anyone identify these spots??, the correct answer just might get you a fattie....well, actually, it will get you a fattie. Your choice of colour range.

Some news and greetings from Jackie
"Sending this photo of fabric, I’ve been working with these colours this week, very bright, next time I go to machine I’ll be using another colour.
Andrea I did see your note about the sewing room competition, I sat and looked at sewing room photos when I had a cuppa late last week, three rooms came quickly to mind, I picked Karen W and Karen D quite quickly, I think Karen D you had something on your coffee table that you had brought up to the Kitchen Cafe at quilt show, and Sandy I spotted your kangaroo.......
The week has passed quickly, I’ve looked at a few YouTube’s of Karen Browns ‘Just get it done quilts’.
All the best, Take Care Jackie"

Sheila hasn't been slack either.
"36 blocks I have made using Japanese fabrics ( have had some long before I went to Japan. ) Although they look like drunkards path blocks I have cut them freehand ( templates is a swear word ) !
Below is a skirt I have made from my favourite shibori fabric I bought in Japan S"

Marie shared a story about the bickie recipe from the 'Cleaning Tip and Challenge' post.
Marie's internet has been down, now fixed (thankfully) but doing a catch up run through the blog she spotted the 3 ingredient bickies from 'One Pot Chef', Yep, Marie makes this very recipe but with the addition of 1C of crushed peanuts! As we all know, Marie is a dab hand in the bickie department and tells us that without the crushed nuts the biscuits are more of a shortbread type but with the nuts they are more than delicious, even beats jam drops! (Gotta be good to beat jam drops.)

So what are you up to in your kitchen or sewing space? feel free to share gals, it lifts our day to see what our stitching sisters are up to.