SS Nibbles and bloggers.........

Nibbles is essential at Scrub Stitchin' well anything that I am at..........

Sometimes your just trying to take a nice photo............set it up pretty.......

 and then this happens..............

lol.......

the blog connections is where all the meet up's started for me...........

so we need to take a group picture.........Sadly Sandy could not come at the last minute.............

We gained a couple of new bloggers over the weekend..............

Welcome to Pink Sunset Cottage and Coming Home....

Their pages were very quickly created at Scrub Stitchin' so need a little fixing up yet........but pop over and say hi to them...........

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

Chookyblue........

Friday @ Scrub Stitchin'........

 onto Friday.........

Lunch............

Starting to see some progress on tops...............This one is Anzac Day theme............

a smaller version.............

Mixing it up..............

Maybe someone a found a bundle of fabric to take home..............

nice scarf Raewyn...........its hard to get good help...........

Thats better...........getting longer.........

the grounds are always so pretty........nearly each year we see something replaced, added, fixed up..........so nice to see when some show grounds are falling to the way..............

Late afternoon walk around the grounds to check out the sunset...........

I missed the next day as decorating but it was spectacular............

a jet catching the sunlight under the sliver of a moon............

so many happy faces.........

great scrappy quilt by Betty.........She finished the binding on this one..........

More to come as you would expect..........

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

Chookyblue.........

Thursday @ Scrub Stitchin'

  We could safely say my sewing pace is snails pace at Scrub Stitchin'...........

Haven't decided what I will call this quilt yet...........was thinking the zigzag quilt but then it looks a little like giant ric rac when I had it sideways on the wall yesterday................more on this later........

Temptation is ever present with the shop set up on the corner............

thankyou so much Deb @ The Crafters Cottage for bringing the shop to us.........Deb brings a wonderful mix of tempting goodies............with people coming out from Coona most days we have a little courier service so just make a call and out it comes...........If you are passing through Coonabarabran stop in to her shop..............it's right near the clock tower..............

Such a luxury for me when I don't have a shop nearby............

Mum even made some gluten free scones and the girls loved them.............

Scones, jam and cream are essential a couple of days in the retreat..........

Miss Jules...........one down 99 to go???

Tina having a red for Brenda.............

Nibbles.........yes there is a lot of time spent at the table eating chatting and fixing all..............

a daily essential............

everyone moves around and sits with different people each time they sit at the table..........perfect.......

as usual in between meals at times the tables get moved to lay out quilts.........

more to come.........

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

Chookyblue..........

Let the Scrub Stitchin' fun begin......

  REPOST FROM CHOOKYBLUE

When I got to Baradine beautiful Brenda came to help me start setting up....... She had been out to the car to get the ironing board...... Went back out to get the iron and she tripped on something and fell face first into the ground........ Her nose forehead took the brunt of the fall..... She got herself up........ I took one look at her when I saw her face I said we needed to go to hospital....... Being older things damage easier...... But she's a mess........Still waiting on x-rays and scans to see the extent of damage but she's had a couple nights in hospital and missing the fun.......Some of us have been down to the hospital to visit her.......She's so sad......hoping she gets here by Saturday...........

Thanks Mick for adding the stars to the bags......

Janice and Mick were arriving just as I was taking Brenda to hospital........ Brenda's daughter arrived pretty quickly - Baradine is very small - but once we knew what was happening I left them and went back to do some more set up.......

After a short break for bingo and dinner Janice and I went back and finished the bags......... The photo above was just before we left for the night.......

Up bright and early we put the finishing touches on...... Annette arrived and helped with these last bits also.........

Only thing missing were the flowers for the table...... You can see them below but they were being picked up in a bigger town...........

Got another mix of quilts hanging around......... Some of Brenda's, Janice and my own........ We even found a new spot to hang another quilt..... bonus......

It's a lovely light room...... 

The weather was pretty chilly overnight...... Autumn is definitely in the air now.....

Few of us sitting around eating lunch...... We grabbed some burgers from the middle pub......

Annette had a birthday today........ Betty is tomorrow (Thursday)....... Mum made a chocolate cake - Annette's favourite and everyone else too....... Not sure what was happening here but both girls were laughing madly....

The end the day we went to the pub for dinner.......One end of the table......

After dinner most went back sewing......a few went to bed....... Couple of girls to arrive tomorrow........One Friday morning...     

Dinner at the corner pub....... The other end of the table...... They did open especially for us for dinner.......

The end the day we went to the pub for dinner.......

Raewyn having a red wine for our dear Brenda.......

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

Chookyblue.......

the best tribe...................

what a wonderful group of girls.........they make my heart sing...........

we come together..........not everyone knows every one........but you see someone stuck and next minute someone will be there helping out.....offering support............

giving demos..........showing their work.........sharing skills and while we all do our own thing in our own way everyone is so willing to share and be supportive..........

you can see the changes in people when they are here........

we bring the best out in each other........

The BEST TRIBE to be part of...................Scrubbers are the best............

This year we found some mini grandstands........they were great for taking the group pic............

Mick was official photographer...........

We did have a bit of fun..............

Moving to another spot..............just because we could...........

Mick took some with his drone here..........

i'll add that later.................

I am truly blessed to have such wonderful people part of my life..........friendships are forms and strengthened............its such a special bond...........

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

Chookyblue.......