Saturday 20 June 2015

...and a good chinwag was had by all!


This morning I had the pleasure of catching up with a group of lovely ladies I have met online through the Down to Earth Simple Living Forums and also our Simple Living Toowoomba group.



A couple of my favourite bloggers had travelled to Toowoomba for the day and I was pleased it wasn't a dismal, cold day like it had been during the week. Blinky from The Herb Barrow and Hutchy from Beyond the Garden Gate arrived safely and joined Margaret, Kerry, Vicki and myself in a good old chinwag for a few hours before they left to head back onto the highway. 

I am sure we entertained fellow patrons of the cafe where we met as Margaret (pictured above) had the needles out and started off my new pair of socks with the 'proper' sock yarn which is a lot thinner than the 8ply I had used for the sock I finished last week. The needles are thinner as well so I hope I can get the hang of knitting with them. 

 

Margaret also showed us a beautiful face washer she is knitting which is so very soft. She was explaining to us how to knit that pretty edging but I think I would need a YouTube tutorial. :-)



She also brought along her shrug which featured in the post Easy Knitted Shrug in Garter Stitch which she is modelling above so we all had a look at how it was knitted and then...



...Vicki was wearing it before we knew it. This is the front...




...and this is the back...obviously!  It is very light and soft and drapes beautifully. 




I asked Kerry to bring along her hexagons she is making as the plan is to sew them together into a quilt after she was inspired by Margy's queen sized quilt which you may have seen in the post Hexagon Learning Curve. There are over 1,000 hexagon shapes in this quilt and it is just amazing. I hope Kerry achieves her goal. Sewing these can be a little addictive I find and they are easy to carry around in your bag as you can pull them out and sew a couple when waiting in doctor's surgeries etc. Well, to be honest you could probably sew enough for a cot quilt when waiting in some doctor's surgeries. LOL!

After talking for three hours or so it was time to go home and do some exercise so I said hello to the guinea pigs and then took a walk around the garden. 


 


I noticed that the CEO's pest control methods hadn't worked on the fig trees so more homework will have to be done to discover a more effective treatment.  





I think the passionfruit vine appreciated the rain of late and there were a number of stunning flowers just asking me to take a photo of them. Aren't they fascinating? Quite strange looking but fascinating just the same.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend wherever you are.We have the shortest day of the year coming up so I am sure all Aussies will be happy to see their daylight hours gradually start getting longer. Unfortunately I don't think our Northern Hemisphere friends will be so happy that their days will be getting shorter as it doesn't seem to be all that long ago that they still had snow falling in some areas.
















25 comments:

  1. I gave up on the sock. I got to the heel flap two different times and messed up! I'll wait a while until I get some better and have the time and patience for it. Right now I'm still working on my baby blanket. Nothing hard about it at all! :)
    Looks like you ladies had a great time!

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    1. That's a shame, Joyful. I used the Silvers Sock Class for absolute beginners which was very helpful.

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  2. The garden looks lovely and the sunshine was so good after a wet few days.
    Thank you for arranging our coffee morning, it was good to catch up and meet the girls.

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  3. Its so lovely you ladies had such a wonderful day! Meeting new friends is exciting.
    I love the passion fruit flower ... we had them a few years ago and yes I did take photos as I was so taken with their unusual beauty.
    Socks ... I have one half completed from a couple of years ago :(

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    1. Now Shirley, you should just finish off your socks and warm up your feet this winter.

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  4. Some beautiful knitting projects and Passionfruit flowers - highly unusual but beautiful! Have a nice Sunday!

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    1. Yes the passionfruit flowers are quite stunning, Frances.

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  5. Nana Chel, would some homemade Miracle Spray work on those little nasties on your fig tree? Love the pretties :). You'll be onto using the fine yarn when it's time. In the meantime, your heavier weight socks will be nice and warm for you!

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    1. He has put white oil on the figs which should work but there are heaps of them there. The figs on the other side of the yard are untouched.

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  6. That passion fruit flower looked like something from under the sea or a microscope! Sigh...I really need to visit Australia someday! There are so many things I just need to see! Today is our longest day so we begin the march to winter! But it is a slow march and I will be ready by fall!!

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    1. Don't you have passionfruit where you live, Kathy?

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  7. Sounds like a lovely day had by all...

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    1. It was, Mandy. It would have been lovely if you could have joined us too.

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  8. Nanna Chel,
    Glad you gals had a good day and some nice weather to enjoy it.
    - Shiralee.

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    1. Shiralee, it turned out to be a lovely sunny day which was great for our Sunny Coast girls.

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  9. Sounds like you all had a lot of fun Nanna Chel. It is great that you could catch up with fellow bloggers and dter's.

    I love the passion fruit flower, they are absolutely stunning!

    xTania

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    1. That vine is sadly neglected so I was surprised to see all the flowers on it.

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  10. That sounds like a wonderful day, I would have loved it! And very productive!
    In our doctors surgery you would have a fair chance of finishing a quilt! xxx

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    1. Annabel, I think that is the case everywhere. LOL!

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  11. sounds like a good day for all.

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    1. Deb, I was going to ask you to join us but didn't think you would want to drive up the hill two Saturdays in a row.

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  12. I had such a lovely morning Chel and it was good to see so many projects underway which I can hopefully emulate one day. Loved the pretty edge on the face washer but should have written down Margaret's instructions cos I've forgotten already. A YouTube would be handy indeed. I was so busy talking I didn't even see you take any photos!

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    1. Hutchy, I might ask Margaret for the instructions again as they went in one ear and out the other. I didn't take any photos until after you left...when I remembered I had my camera with me. Duh!

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  13. Hi Hutchy, the little edge is cast on 2 and cast off 2 at the start of every second row....easy

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