~Nundle.......Girls Just Want To Have Fun~

Back in March we made our Annual Trek to Nundle for Girls Day in the Country hosted by Kerry Swain from Cottage on the Hill

Here's JoJo Guitar and all when we pulled up at the Motel at Hunter Valley

Cattle Grazing on the way

After lunching and shopping we all gather and have a Swap

This time it was agreed that we make an Anni Downs pattern seeing she was the Designer this weekend

JoJo received the red book at the back left made by Dale

I received the shoe bag to the right of the book made by Sweet Peg

I made the bright pin cushion on the bottom right with a little bag to the left of it which was received by Alison

~A   F U N   S W A P~

Fabulous Project Roll designed by Anni Downs

A Roll for storing Blocks in Progress

The side of the Roll

Needle book opened out to show the outside covers

Inside the Needlebook

and a sweet little Pin Cushion

Oh behold I looked down and saw Dawnie's shoes at one stage

Couldn't rush out and buy a pair seeing they were from Japan
but aren't they just fabulous!!!

The Swap I received during the afternoon was from Christine at Cowra
A little fabric covered notebook and a piece of Anni's fabric from the collection
'Button Tree Lane'



This was my contribution to the Swap
We had to include a little stitchery on it
'Friends are Never Far Away'

Catching up with Chez

Anni showcasing one of her quilts 'Nature's Journey'



This one is 'In My Garden'

With Anni showing off my 'Gardener's Journal' Quilt

Spotted.......this fabulous bag on a chair

Our Annual Group Photo

Show and Tell in the evening

This one is my 20 year project

'From Blackheath to Bathurst to Bungendore'

Started off as Blocks......turned into a Wall Hanging and then eventually it was suggested I make a Quilt
Blocks were cut before the advent of Rotary Cutters where you pulled a piece of thread through the fabric, hoped it wouldn't break and then cut very carefully along that line......phew!!!
And sandpaper was used to hold fabric in place!!!

Above and below 2 more fabulous Show and Tells!!!

Above and below Girls Just Having Fun together with Shez and Deb after Breakfast

And here's a little preview of next year's Tutor's work.......Bonnie Sullivan

A fabulous time as always with The Girlfriends as JoJo has christened this wonderful group!!!

~OPAM (One Project A Month) March 2014 and Needlwork Group~

2 small projects this month for OPAM

The first is a block for part of a quilt being organized by Fiona at my Needlework group for raffle later on in the year (would love to win this one)

The quilt is Best Friends Forever by Rosalie Quinlan

Fabric is Scrumptious by Camille Roskelley

And here's a sample of some of the blocks already done!!!

And this is a secret block (can't talk about this one yet)

Thank you Sweet Peg and Kris for organizing OPAM again for another year!!!

Fiona organizes projects for us and the first one is this Chateau Rogue Pincushion

and the next is an Embroidered Sewing Bag

And here I am showing off my Gardener's Journal quilt to the group

I've changed times with this group now

Instead of going in the morning I go in the evening as I just wasn't getting to the group in good time  what with getting JoJo ready.........and then waiting for her lift to come to go to her programmes the group had already been running for nearly an hour!!!

I'm loving the new time as I am getting more done and the group has made me so very, very welcome!!!  Thank you Fiona, Asta and the rest of the girls!!!

Only thing is I am mixed up in rehearsals for 'Allo 'Allo presented by Bay Theatre Players along with Asta and I'm not getting there every week!!!

After all, I couldn't resist saying yes to sitting in French Cafe scenes!!!

Have a great week......love Dzintra

~Girls Day In The Country at Nundle 2013~

GDITC was held at the Memorial Hall at Nundle and this was the sign welcoming us all
This day is hosted by Kerry from The Cottage on the Hill

Quilts and flowers by the front entry......so welcoming

A little box of requirements for the day along with a coffee mug which we got to keep (I swapped my pink one for an aqua one with Cheryll)

see on the right hand side of the little box the white ric rac

I was on the White Ric Rac table

amongst the goodies was a Charm Pack by Riley Blake Designs

included was a little notebook which I managed to swap and get this one off Dawnie

then realized that Kerry's project was for a journal cover

I'll have to get myself a new little book as I can't bring myself to cover this one!!!

Kerry's project......A Journal Cover

and the real deal......

Guest Tutor for the day was Sue Daley and the project was a butterfly made out of the charm pack we received.  This version is on a box lid

Kerry had made hers to insert into the top of the little box we all received

And this one on a bag cover

And woo hooo here is my first hexagon

 Around our table I spotted this little project above using 'clamshells'.  This is last year's project also by Sue....Kerry has the guest tutors for 2 years in a row and next year's is Lynette Anderson and I am already booked in!!!

This lovely little pencil case or any sort of case belongs to Susan

the design is by Anni Downs......how gorgeous is this......I might have to add this to my looooong list of things to make

Our table in the centre

At lunchtime I had a quick walk around town and checked out Odgers & Mclelland Exchange Stores

The store, established by John Odgers and William McClelland, began trading in the early 1890's selling everything necessary for the surrounding farming community and acting as an exchange for gold and produce.

'Real' brooms

Nundle is also home to the well known Nundle Woollen Mill

Here is Donna aka Chookyblue standing with me

And our Hostess with the Mostest Kerry with Chooky

(love that skirt Kerry!)

me with Kerry

From left back......Alison, Cheryll, Lea, Dawnie, Trish and me

Deb and Susan

Kerry had organized a little swap (above is mine) for everybody which was a scissor fob (no scissors, I just put mine in for a photo because they happened to match)

This was received by Bec (no blog)

And I received this one from Cheryl (no blog)

Group Blog Photo of the Girlfriends (as JoJo would say)

Sue is on the left of the middle row

I had a great time at Nundle......in fact so did Mr Armchair and JoJo and we are all looking forward to next year with Lynette!!!!!

But wait, there's more to come LOL......

Mr Armchair took JoJo to Australia's Country Music Capital, Tamworth

Kerry had an Antique Quilt Show on Saturday night

and I had a birthday celebration with my family on the way home