Wednesday 13 March 2024

Chookshed Stitchers zoom quilting day.........

I don't care if it is International or National and if it's national which nation..... I'm thinking USA but I am celebrating Quilting Day this Saturday 16th March...........
I'll probably start at 6am my time AEDT Saturday morning......
Friday afternoon or evening for those in the northern hemisphere...... 
The Chookshed Stitchers will be meeting online...............
So if you have not been on for awhile set some time aside....... If you're new be brave and join us....... We aren't exclusive....... 

Clearly no sewing has being happening.........

But I do have a few pics here to share......

For now you just get to enjoy some of my scenery..............completely not quilt related but its still a patchwork of colour in my life........
Working with the brown/blue pallet....... The waters been a bit missing to change it to green/ blue colours.........
Few more pretty hot days 38C then hopefully the temps should drop a bit to the low 30's...... Gosh Sat might even be in the 20's which will be lovely......... Now that might actually feel like autumn........

Hopefully see you Saturday........
Could be a long day at this stage....... 
Leave a comment below OR use the contact me box on the side of your having issues commenting.......

Catch you later..........
Chookyblue..........
PS on Saturday give us a sewing tip..... A tip that helps you when sewing...... Could be super simple.......
Like the mark on your sewing foot that we learnt about recently................
I never knew about it...... Lol

Sunday 25 February 2024

spikes and chirps.........

 I heard a funny noise outside the Chookshed the other morning...........I had an echidna visiting.........

The first 8 keets are doing great.............so great I decided to raid a nest that I had in the garden............
Well that was interesting.........there are varying ages of egg development in that guinea fowl nest.................
So I candled them and have 2 incubators going with different stages of eggs in each one.............
ANYWAY............

the raided eggs have started to hatch.......over several days now here's the progress so far.......
1st keet was doing great but I think a little premmy and didn't get the gist of eating and died...........
They can live for 24 hrs at least without food etc........the left over yolk sustains them........
2nd one is doing great........
3rd one didn't hatch out and died thinking premmy also.........
4th one is doing great ..........
5th one is starting to hatch so see what happens...........there are more eggs to go..........
in the pic above you can see the big ones are about 12 days old...........the little one towards the back of the bowl is 2 days old now........
and the baby at the front is the newest and I popped him in the box at lunch time........
no sewing to busy playing with these babies...........
Catch you later.............
Chookyblue...........
PS maybe I need to change that to guinea blue.............LOL



Tuesday 13 February 2024

I'm a mum..........

 First there was one............
This morning I have 3..............
with 4 more slowly on the way hope they survive.......2 more eggs????
Now I have to go to work......%#$#&^%$*^....
I feel like it's a family emergency and I need to stay home..........
Catch you later......
Chookyblue.........

Sunday 11 February 2024

Is this you.........

Morning............

It's bright and early and I was having trouble getting back to sleep so I decided to just get up.............the mornings are closing in here already...........thankfully we have had a few cooler days.........we had a day under 30c which was the 2nd in 2 months..........its been consistently hot here........the cooler days came after some rain which was lovely but not enough to fill the dams...........it watered the gardens which allowed me to have a few days off watering things.............I've cut back on watering due to the big house dam getting too low.........but that's life where I live.......things won't look so good and i'll concentrate on keeping the garden beds watered......some lawns cut off completely others watering reduced...........
I have way to many photos of sunrises and sunsets.......oh and clouds..........
I've been posting back on Snappy Friends and realised I have posted lots of them on the blog...........

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I really enjoyed reading the comments on my last post asking what's your style.........mine really is pretty wide...........and as I read each persons answers I thought it was pretty spot on for each one of you..........

Oops got distracted with a sudden decision to zoom with the Chookshed Stitchers and it's now Sunday morning............

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DOTTI in CT
ELLE
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are just some of the names.........

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Anyway best go......listening to an audio book...........
got some computer work to do and i'll need to mow later today.......
Not sure where the first 1/2 of February has gone but if you find it can you please send it back.......

Best go and get some lunch........
taken me forever to write this post even though it does not have much in it..........
Have a wonderful Sunday.........
What are you up to today????
Catch you later.......
Chookyblue.......

Thursday 1 February 2024

what's your style?????

 a little therapy needed today.......its been a big week.........lots going on as usual..........few nights not so good sleep so that makes everything a little more challenging...........I had 5 mins to run into a shop..........so I took the opportunity........
The left for Chapel Street the right because I liked them.....I like lots of different styles...... In both fabric and quilt designs........
But begs the question❓❓❓❓❓
What's your style????? 
I see some mix it up.......
Some are the same style......

What's your style????? 

Catch you later...............
Chookyblue...........

Sunday 28 January 2024

feeding the soul........

I made the long weekend extra long and took Thursday off also...........
Friday was a public holiday for Australia Day..........
As it was going to a true summers day in my part of the world aka stinking hot I decided I wanted to zoom.........and make it a big day...........
Here we are at some stage during the day.......some of the girls holding up there Scrub Stitchin' bags or January Chookshed Challenge project...........
I started at 6am and finished at 8.30pm
32 wonderful people popped in and out all day.........The most we had on at once was 18 people........we also welcomed a couple of new girls............Maggie and Tazzie.......on the sidebar........Tilly I hope you can get on again next time with things working right.........
My baby Willy Wagtails that I have been following left the nest early in the morning on Thursday and this is how I found them Friday morning...........they still are not flying much but I am thrilled to say they survived the heat of the Thursday Friday 42-43 (108-110F)......I saw them all this morning.......they just grow so fast........they will be flitting around the garden in no time..........
19 blocks completed for "They all add up" so that means the 36 required blocks were done.........
I laid it out on the design wall and was at a stand still when most of you left trying to decide what to do in the rows..............but when we were down to 4 -5 people Jindi's Cottage asked what was going on (before as she was listening but busy away from the camera)
at this point I had thrown all options down and given up but as I started to explain it again and show some options I came up with another option that we had not discussed earlier and it works and I started sewing it again...........and no it does not require me to unpick 18 blocks..........thanks to whoever suggested that..........LOL.......the top is well over 1/2 together now..........
I then moved onto the Moda Love mini quilt..............some bits are missing..........I did a bit more on this on Saturday also.........
Sunset at the end of Australia Day............I do get some lovely sunsets...........
Yesterday my friend Sue came down to sew.........we had a couple more coming but due to family emergencies they had to cancel last minute.......
We had another visitor that was not welcome in side but cool to see just less then a metre away thru the window.............my resident Blue Tongue lizard...........he only scares me occasionally.........he lives in the garden...........he's harmless.......sadly I didn't capture him with his blue tongue poking out..........
anyway after 2 wonderful days of sewing my soul feels replenished...........
Last night was cool enough to sleep without the air con which was lovely............and what a stunning start to the day............
hope you have all refueled your soul with something good this weekend......
Catch you later.........
Chookyblue.......

Tuesday 23 January 2024

Reflections.................

Reflections on the dam and the weekend that was............
So what's happening in your world.............

I went to check a dam early one morning...............cool reflections and it was fun watching the sheep and cattle come into the dam...........their behaviour etc.............

the edges are starting to get a bit boggy.........

The clouds have been cool some days when i've been driving around...........

the emus were pretty inquisitive..........

Couple of trees got hit by lighting last weekend at the neighbours...........one of the splinters from this tree metres away...........
This is what the trees would have looks like...........
This one got hit and caught fire..............lucky it must have got some rain over the area..........
amazing to see the shattering/splintering of the tree..............

This weekend I actually had some friends come and sew.........I had a few blocks done to start.............was nice just to be able to grab it and make progress.........It's been so long since I sewed with real people in the Chookshed.........before the renos i'm sure................    
exciting interruption to sewing when hanging out the washing...........I had been suspicious but I found another nest for the guinea fowl and she is sitting and loaded with eggs.............the other nest I found got raided and they stopped laying there..........they are communal nest layers until someone decides to sit on the nest..........the eggs I collected from the first nest are currently in the incubator.......i'll keep a close eye on this one and try and catch her and the babies as soon as they are hatched if she makes it...........If I lock her up in a cage she will raise them well.........otherwise she will be hopeless.......and probably lose the lot..........I've had no luck with mine raising young on their own.............
 made some good progress on the blocks...........
buggered up this trying to sew early yesterday morning in the dark with only the machine light.........
all fixed up this morning............right sides sewn together..........
Lesson learnt turn the light on!!!!!
And I am excited to report for the second year in a row I have a baby spotted bowerbird in the garden............the bower I found last year in the garden is no longer in use but there must be one close by to keep them around the garden........I was only 2 metres away from him and I also took a little video of him..........If I put that into youtube I will let you know........I found some info below...............
Bowerbirds are polygynous, which means one male may mate with several females in a season. The female alone is responsible for building a simple cup nest well off the ground in trees and shrubs. There she usually lays one or two eggs, which she incubates alone. The eggs hatch after about three weeks, and she feeds the chicks for up to eleven weeks before they become fully independent. more info here
Catch you later........
Chookyblue.......
PS there could be a marathon Chookshed Stitchers sewing day for Australia Day 26th Jan keep an eye out........new bloggers are welcome to join.......(25th on the flip side of the world)
Its promising to be a scorcher so a cool spot will be required............