Another year and this year the ST1300 Honda Motorcycle Club is having it in Toowoomba Queensland Australia 🇦🇺
Since we joined the club in 2016 we have attended the AGM each year and this year it’s in Toowoomba which is 1600kms away from home … home being Melbourne for us 👌
This meant a nice LONG ride for hubster & me.
We broke the journey up into 400kms per day as I need to take a break each day and a 400km day is usually about 6 hours on the road with a few breaks to stretch and hydrate.
4 days of riding with stops in Jerilderie, Parkes, Narrabri & finally Toowoomba… 1600kms in total… crossed 2 state lines NSW & QLD… we are here to celebrate another year of riding our motorcycles 🏍️ & meeting our friends from all over Australia & Tasmania again.
Open roads fill my heart with joy & passion for riding hopefully will never fade 🤍
This month the Heart I have made from scraps is a tribute to my Dad who I lost on 19th February 😢
I have another heart in process and it will eventually be a quilt I make for my mum …
It will have a printed picture of my dad as well so a happy reminder for my mum when she uses it 🤍 67 years of togetherness 🫶 So so hard to believe He’s not here anymore 💔
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I made a tiny quilt for my grand baby when she was born to do “tummy time” on…
I made another in pink & white soon after…
I decided then that each birthday she will get a quilt made by Nana.
As she’s growing she is learning quickly so I made a quilt with letters & her name in the centre along with pictures of her year 12-23 months 🫶
Needless to say we are having a good time playing on it (she does want to pull the letters off 😆 I’m glad I sewed them on even tho they could be ironed on )
Hope everyone had a wonderful season and is happy to be entering 2025. No better way to start the year then with the Scrap happy post !
I as usual have little or no time these days to sit at my machine but I do make sure that I sit and do something every couple of days or I feel a headache coming on From withdrawal symptoms and lack of sewing 😀
Another tissue box cover which is extremely easy to make as the Christmas one I have put away the other one this dresses up the box beautifully 😍
This month I present a coverlet… it’s all scrappy and I call it my shabbyChic cover 🫶
The pieces are an old quilt cover which already had the sewing on it . I used the back of the cover as a backing and didn’t not put any batting in between as I want to use it over summer when it’s not too cold and not too hot.
As always the Rag Style does make it softer and very easy to complete quickly!
Now the lace border …..
I have lace curtains on all my front windows and for years the length has been just a little too long 🤗 I have been meaning to trim it but something or the other distracts me and I never got around to doing it. There is family coming over from England for the son’s wedding early December and so a bit of house maintenance has been under way ☺️ Part of that maintenance has been to put in new drapes … so the old ones taken off and new ones installed… the lace is perfectly good but needed a wash so that has been done and now on reinstalling I have actually cut it down to size !!! Five years later but it’s done ✔️🤩
I love lace and I rolled it up and onto my sewing table it went. Husband asked why I was keeping it and I just gave a look 👀😄 How can I throw that away !!!
Well as you can see it has come into use and makes a plain cover look chic. I’m very happy with the results and I now have something to throw over myself when watching TV 😍
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We blinked & it’s now October…. The rest of the world is orange and we are in spring 😊
It’s been a doozy few months as there’s been a lot happening & not all good. But as I see it life has to balance out & we have to have the bad to appreciate the good.
Colours have always made me happy as I come from a country that has vibrant colours everywhere and however down or blue you might be feeling, just being amongst colours lifts your spirits & gives you the ‘ummph’ to carry on.
There has not been much time to make things as I’ve been occupied with more pressing matters & I needed some quick & easy to rest my mind & heart along with some colour to make me want to sing 🎶
Well hunting through my scraps I brought out these colours and make a simple pot holder.
It literally took me half an hour to make and will be on my kitchen counter all the time to help with the warm pots & pans…. And I know it will bring me heaps of joy whenever I look at it.. 💝
Here’s to hopefully a lot more sewing before Christmas comes but again one day at a time is a good motto to follow 🙏
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HAPPINESS IS..... 