I saw this on Sunshine?Paradise

this morning and thought I would let you know a bit about my life. Not that interesting really.



Age: 41 years young
Bedsize: Queen
Chores You Hate: All of them but have to be done
Dog or Cat: Doggies. Shitzu (Toyo), Chihuahua x Shitzu (Tinkerbell) and Teacup Poodle x Chihuahua (Usher)
Essential Start to Your Day: Ice Coffee Milk
Favourite Colour: Purple
Gold or Silver: Gold..I wear too many gold bracelets and rings and now I have started Pandora Gold and Silver bracelets.....so addictive I have 4 bracelets and ready to start the fifth.
Height: 5foot 2......really short lol
Instruments You Play: absolutely none
Job Title: Administration in Hospitals until 2 years ago....But now stay at home Carer as my partner needs constant care and needs dialysis daily as he is in need of a new kidney....these desease is a BIATCH.
Kids: the big Zero
Live: Used to live in a Unit in Ascot in Brisbane...but as funds are tight had to move...so moved to where there would be a chair in the Renal Unit so we live in Maryborough, Queensland.
Mother's Name: Joy or Nana Doy
Overnight Hospital Stays: 0 for me, heaps for him
Quote from a Movie or Show: Don't have time for movies
Siblings: 1 sister Colina
Time You Wake Up: around 5am
Underwear: Of course :)
Vegetable You Hate: Snow Peas
What Makes You Run Late: Living in a town full of retired people that like driving at 30kms an hour
X-Rays You've Had: 1 for dislocated shoulder
Yummy Food You Make: lots of Thai food with good fresh vegetables
Zoo Animals: Is a butterfly a zoo animal???? love the butterfly inclosure at the Melbourne Zoo.

Well that is I. On a quilty note...working like crazy on my Mary Mannakee and I was going to wash the blocks today with a colour catcher but we have rain.

Happy Easter. Hope the Easter Bunny was good to you.

Until next time
Adele xx

International Quilt Day

yes that's right to celebrate it if you go over to www.thequiltshow.com all the episodes from series 1 through 9 are free for the weekend.

I'm so glad its raining.

Adele xx

PS: yes I'm still tackling that block, a lot of picking it up and putting it down.

Well Sunday has passed

and I am by know means near completion of this horrible Mary Mannakee Block. A quick search in Google came up with only 2 other completed quilts with this block....no wonder I hate the thing.

All will be revealed shortly.

Off to do yet some more applique of the said block.

Until next time.
Adele xx

PS: Welcome to the first day of Autumn certainly doesn't feel like it. I'm more concerned that its March already where has the year gone.

It's the most horrible block in the world

I am needle turning right now. I hate this block but because it has turned relatively cold, I wanted to do some applique. It is the centre of the Mary Mannakee quilt that I'm doing and I have set a date of this Sunday to finish it and post it on my blog for you all to see why it is such a horrible block.

Until next time
Adele xx

New Start and Farmers Wife Quilt Blocks

Well I don't know what has happened to my blog, all my posts have seemed to of disappeared and I can very rarely comment on posts. Oh well, a new year means a new start.

I have had half yards of Denyse Schmidt fabric for quiet awhile and not knowing what to make with it, they found a home in a nice hat box, then I stumbled across a flicker group called the Farmers Wife Quilt Along and I knew the fabric would look great in this quilt.

So I have made a block a day and as I am hand piecing this quilt I make sure that I have the next block cut out the night before and ready to stitch the next day. Just to keep the momenteum going so here are my blocks I have made so far. 8 down 103 to go.

 And on another note while we were on holidays and passing through Sydney on the way home to Queensland we just had to go and make a visit to Adriano Zumbo's patisseries and here are some pictures. We had such a lovely time and it was so easy to spend $300 at his shops.

 The Chocolate Lolly Box cake was too die for

and his world famous Macarons they were so good, I have no words for them.

Until next time.
Adele