Happy New Year! It's a Hoot!

So I finally finished my quilt I have spent most of the year on (it seems).

Fabric bought in April (whole fat quarter collection). Picked a pattern and off I went.

It stalled...got picked up here

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with New Year around the corner, I got it finished! There was something weird about it

 hanging around till 2012!

So, I picked the 35 degree New Year's Eve to baste;

threw in some spare blocks and some stash pink;

and sat under the air con and sewed!

I finished it on New Years Day, evening, and had a beach day the next day planned (BEST 

place to cool down in 40 degree heat! Swam for the first time in about 2 years!). So.....

oh, and a gratuitous gorgeous daughter shot!

Finally some craft camp pics....

Well, I had to sort through the pics so I didn't double up and you wouldn't want to go here and read Brianna's awesome post! (Don't rush over there, though, there is a great animation of a terrible me being greedy!) As the other 2 pals are a bit behind in their blogging, we have to give them a memento too!

Essentials were packed (Coffee machine not in pic!). However, awesome meals were

also consumed.

Brownies kept us full of energy (and a chance to use my vintage Bessemer plate!)

My driver and sewing 'sister'

The beautiful sun on Saturday was a bit of a pest.....it only seemed to hit my machine!

And for anyone else that goes to or wants to go to Sewjourn, this is THE best bed.

Mel finished a quilt.....

and Brianna brought along her finished Sherbert Pips quilt

Brianna started and finished this quilt top....

And I finally got into my 'It's a Hoot' quilt 

Liesel struggled with a badly written pattern most of the time, but on the first night dressed the dressmaker's dummy, and introduced us to baked doughnuts.......mmmmmm, doughnuts!

And then 'visual merchandiser" Brianna styled us up and we all went 'awwwwww'.

Thanks for an awesome weekend girls, I loved every minute!