Sorry it’s a bit late today but being a Saturday we have been out with friends for https://www.theqtrain.com.au/ The Q Train experience with some friends 😍
This months scraphappyis trying out something new. I bought these cut hexies along with stick on cut pieces and at lazy years quilt fair.
I decided to put them together into a simple place mat for me to use as I please.
I do want to start making miniature place mats and sheets to use for imaginary’House House’ play with my grand daughter as she gets bigger and this was definitely a good start …
A simple piece but quite versatile
I have joined all the pieces with a straight stitch across and am sure it will curl up once I wash it … if it does then I will zigzag over each piece .
As this is the start to various other little pieces and I’m looking forward to using up my scraps for them 😍
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Last week in May and we are almost into the middle of the year!!!
Sunday was a rare day I was home and able to do some sewing 🧵
(No better way to spend the day I say 💛)
The coffee table in front of the TV is 27 years old and I don’t think I will ever get rid of it . I’m lucky I have a handy husband and if the table becomes unstable due to age he will fix it 🤍
This table I bought just after our son was born. The boy is now 28 & is getting married at the end of the year !…. It has been a table that he has sat on … just because 😏… he’s run around it as a game …. Used it to play table tennis 🏓 seeing as he was little, and it has been a battering board for him. All his little toys were banged on it so he could make noise 🥳 Needless to say the table has many many scars and as as these days we pay a lot of money for a “distressed” look I think my table covers that aspect well 🤩
The table is wiped down and a light polish applied each week and now I cover it with my quilted table runners . This would have to be the most used table in the house & I’m taking it with with us when we downsize eventually 🔶
I love looking around my house and seeing things the kids have used over the years and still use when they come over. Life always comes full circle ⭕️ and everything I look at and remember is such a blessing 🟣.
And so …. Another table runner adorns my favourite table in the house 🏡
The much used coffee table A slightly larger table runner washed and dried It covers the table well I have not done FMQ in a very long time as it takes a toll on my RA hands… but as it wasn’t a very large piece I was ok 👌
I’m onto my next project now so see you all soonish 💙
I did have all the panels completed a while ago but had only got round to wadding backing and quilting two panels.
This is the first weekend in the last few months that has been a home based weekend and as the hubster was busy working on his project I sat and completed the third panel on Saturday.
Sunday saw me put the panels together with the QAYG method and it became heavier by the minute 😊
Last but not least the binding went on and instead of hand sewing I machined it in place ….
VOILA 🙌
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Another idea is brewing and this time it needs to be ready by 10th July as it’s a birthday gift 🎁… fingers crossed 🤞 I get it done in time 😍
My girlfriend loves red …. And she’s always helping me out with various things … easy stuff…. Hard stuff and the best part is she never ever makes me feel like I’m taking advantage.
I guess that’s what friends are and I’m blessed to have her in my life. She’s been a part of my life since school and we lived on the same street. Her birthday is in a couple of months and I’m wanting to make her a quilt but in the meantime I keep making little things as a thank you for her as she loves anything quilted 🤩
Needless to say she was extremely happy 😊
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Well we are back again and before I post about this months ScrapHappiness I need to share a picture with you ❣️
As you can see my journey started four years ago and this was my first attempt at paper piecing … how I love the process 😍
Onto this months post ….
I’m off to Perth next week and I’m going to see a friend who I only see on social media as we always seem to miss each other when visiting…
She asked me to make her a bag a while ago and since I’m going there and stars are aligned and we are meeting after all these years I get to give her the bag 🥰
This fabric is a remnant left over from a previous project and ideal for my scraphappy post as well 🤩
It’s a simple piece and something I put together in half an hour as time is very limited these days for complicated sewing projects.
At the moment we are in Mansfield for the National Motorcycle Rally that Honda ST Owners have each year which Victoria is hosting … like I said time to see these days are limited 🤩
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“ Barwon Park is an authentic bluestone mansion and stables set in a sweeping rural landscape. Embarrassed by having to entertain the visiting Duke of Edinburgh at an undistinguished homestead, pioneer pastoralist Thomas Austin and his wife Elizabeth built this lavish 42 room mansion in 1871. Thomas Austin died just six months after it was completed, but Elizabeth lived at Barwon Park for many years and became a noted philanthropist. The house then passed into the hands of the Batson family who later bequeathed it to the National Trust. Visitors still marvel at the magnificent entrance hall and impressive room as did d I !!
Thomas Austin English born Thomas Austin arrived in Australia in 1831 and settled in the Western District of Victoria in 1837. Taking up land near Winchelsea of 12,000 hectares for grazing sheep and training horses, he named it Barwon Park.
A member of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, which introduced new animals and plants to the colony, Austin brought from England hares, blackbirds and partridges.
In 1859 he also brought 24 rabbits to breed as game for his shooting parties. Although welcomed at the time, Austin is now blamed for introducing this serious pest to Australia
Royal Rabbit Shooting In December 1867 Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Alfred, visited Australia. He stayed at the Austin’s homestead and went shooting there. In three and half hours over 1000 rabbits were shot by the party. The Prince alone shot 416 and was so delighted with the shoot another was arranged for the Prince’s return visit to Victoria the following February. On that occasion he claimed 432 of the 1532 rabbits shot that day, although one reporter argued that “in such an indiscriminate slaughter we cannot see how any precise conclusion can be arrived at.”
It was having entertained royalty in their modest homestead that prompted the Austin’s to built at a cost of £10,000, the present Barwon Park mansion, more suited to royal visits.
Elizabeth Austin – Philanthropist Elizabeth Austin was born in England in 1821 and came to Australia in 1841. Four years later she married Thomas Austin and became involved in local churches and charities. After her husband’s death in 1871 she increased her philanthropic ventures and by the end of the nineteenth century was recognised as one of the Victoria’s leading benefactors.
She is best remembered for contributing to the establishment of the Austin Homes for Women in Geelong and the Hospital for Incurables (later the Austin Hospital) in Heidelberg.
She died in 1910 and The Argus Newspaper remembered her for bringing “into existence one of Victoria’s most useful hospitals —the Austin Hospital for Incurables … since the incorporation of the institution on January 21, 1882, it has won for its benefactress the affection and gratitude of hundreds of unfortunate incurables who were denied admission to the general infirmaries.”
The Batson Family In 1912 Stephen Batson purchased Barwon Park, including the 320 acre estate, for £6,716.
In 1969 his son Sydney passed away having bequeathed the property to National Trust but allowing for his sister to live there for the duration of her life.
The mansion was virtually intact from its Victorian era origin as this picture taken by John Collins in 1975 shows (State Library of Victoria Collection).”
I know it’s a bit long to read but the history of the place does bring it to life!!! I wish I had more comfortable shoes to walk in instead of motorcycle boots but it was worth the hour & 10 minutes going through each room of the house !
The Grand Staircase The tapestry Elizabeth made in the 1800’s !Rooms in the house The Stables
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