Off to Scrub Stitchin' - Day 2 Leeton - Part 2

After the lovely morning wander my mission for the afternoon was to get inside one of the Art Deco buildings...the Roxy Theatre...restored and run by volunteers I was lucky to be in Leeton on a day when it open and showing a picture in the afternoon...there was an opportunity not be be missed......it's beautiful on the outside...

The SunRice Festival was the week before (over Easter) and, as part of that, the windows of the theatre had been used to showcase miniatures of local buildings and history and the display hadn't been taken down yet...

 

Then inside...gorgeous!

The details everywhere...the picture was "Six The Musical Live"...a filmed live West End performance of Six The Musical with the original cast...what a hoot! The perfect setting to show a West End musical...almost but not quite being at a live theatre show.  Not a hard way to spend a couple of hours!

 

Happy Stitching... 

Off to Scrub Stitchin' - Day 2 Leeton - Part 1

I planned more than an overnight stop in Leeton to explore the area a bit...but curtailed again by the diesel situation the planned excursions were put on hold and the stopover became a 2-night with one full day in town, rather than a 3-night with forays around the district. The motel in the perfect location I didn't move the car from from check-in until check-out, walked everywhere.

 

Leeton is an art deco town, there are lovely buildings everywhere...and to add a bonus to a town I already liked a lot...there is a patchwork shop! It was just a bit too late when I arrived in town Friday so I hoped she opened Saturday mornings and, yay she did. Still on a mission for a "something" to add to the Scrub Stitchin' swap present, which was successful this time, I may have accidentally found presents for me! Resistance was futile! Ha ha ha

Then a couple of wanders in town...

A pleasant way to spend a morning and late afternoon.

Happy Stitching... 

Off to Scrub Stitchin' - Day 1 to Leeton

The time had finally arrived...the day to set off and head north to the ultimate destination...Scrub Stitchin' 2026...but that was the final destination.  Day 1's destination was Leeton...with a spot of painted silo/water tower hunting along the way.  The original route I'd been planning, before the orange toddler threw his latest tantrum, had to be modified slightly thanks to the fuel situation we had been put in.  I'd been keeping an eye on where supplies were affected and didn't expect to have issues with being able to keep the tank full, but the cost of diesel had doubled so side trips were a wee bit curtailed to cut down the kilometres as the original plan had a bit of zigzagging.

 

First stop...a whole, mmm let's see, hour and a bit up the road *LOL*...Tatura Water Tower...

Remembrance poppies for local Anzacs and Sir John Monash who designed the tower, the earliest surviving example of its type.  Anzac Day being only a couple of weeks away it was even more poignant to have the poppies come into view as I drove in to town.

 

After a stop in town to do a quick job at the Post Office and grab a sanga at the bakery (recommend!), as by now it was lunchtime, it was on to the next silo...Katatamite.

So many local details...indigenous life and plants, wedge tail eagle, agriculture and transport.

Then it was over the river to Tocumwal and onwards to Narrandera...for a stop at Sew Fab, a lovely patchwork shop, to look for "something" to add to my Scrub Stitchin' swap gift...a fat quarter and some ribbon to use as "wrapping paper" but nothing else jumped out at me for the gift add...and resisted the urge to just shop for me! A few things from Coles, diesel in the tank (it was cheaper in Narrandera than Leeton) and the last 1/2 hour to Leeton and check-in at the motel.

 

Happy Stitching... 

Bags 1, 2, 3...

Two Three forgotten kits forgotten no longer...

 

Bag 1 - Rosalie Quinlan "The Two of Us", a little carry bag.  One of the patterns & kits at a stitching day somewhere with Rosalie, Mellie and Leanne as the tutor designers way back in 2010...

Another rediscovered kit that was added to the Scrub Stitchin' 2025 packing,..started at Baradine once I finished the needlecase stitchery/applique...I finally finished all the red evil satin stitch while I was in the ACT the first week of October so it was ready to put together. The kit included all the fabric (I've a good sized piece of the red check left over) and embroidery floss - all the designers used the same thread colours for their kits that day and we were given full sized floss skeins not little bits...all I had to add was the batting. The pattern's construction method of the bag was a bit...mmmm....let's say interesting!...but it is rather cute and has been used taking ziplock bags of prepared blocks for hand piecing between houses over Christmas.

 

Bag 2 - Matilda's Own "Wristie Bag" kit that was a swap gift at local group camp... 

I wasn't all that keen while it was in the kit but once I pulled the fabric out and could see it properly, and realised that without the wrist strap it is a zipped pouch that doesn't need the strap, it was a goer...all ingredients included...

A good size, it will be handy.

 

Bag 3 - Another kit resurfaced when rummaging around probably for something else...Joyful by Marg Low...again all ingredients included. I bought it for $5.00 from the trade table at local group camp for the fabric not the pattern...members bring bits and bobs they want to destash to tempt their fellow members...it works! ha ha ha.  A closer look at the actual pattern and again easily modified as the fabric doesn't scream Christmas so leave off the themed applique patch...

Quick and easy to make up and again a handy size...and the piece of linen and whisperweft that was included for the applique patch is the perfect size to fit in a frame I decided would work for a stitchery...and again pieces of the various fabrics left over to go into the stash boxes.

 

That's three more kits out of the box and into the light...pretty much my whole 2025 right there...

 

Happy Stitching...

Scrub Stitchin' 2025 - A Finished Project...

(Probably about time I got this out of being a draft post!)

I did sew at Scrub Stitchin', more than usual as instead of rush rush rush rush and still being in work mode when I got there I started leave the week before so I had time to decompress beforehand and actually be able to concentrate, relax and get into it before Sunday lunch time (you know, pack up time!).  I considered schlepping a machine with me this year but got over that idea and spent a day prepping up the embroidery/stitchery/applique type parts of a few kits I rediscovered (aka forgotten I even had!) when looking for one specific kit.  The plan being to get done whatever got done and worry about the machine sewing later - and what wasn't done sets up a nice supply of pick and go hand sewing for Thursday nights at quilt group so win/win for me!

 

I didn't do anything on the kit that set me on this path - but it is prepped for another day so no loss...I started with a Lynette Anderson Design Christmas Needlecase...No idea where this came from as it is not something I would have bought, so maybe a group swap of some kind?  The pattern packet had most of the fabrics (except the scissor keep heart as the piece in the pattern was too small) and the wee bell for the reindeer's collar...

I would have finished the handwork at Scrub Stichin' but wanted to use green for the words (not the black the pattern called for) which I knew I had heaps of but not with me (that will learn me to pack light!).

Finished when I got home to the green embroidery floss and quickly sewn up.  It was finished before I went back to work.

 

Now in the needlecase pile, it will come in useful in a project box at some point. 

 

Happy Stitching... 

Camp/Retreat Swaps...Received...

Of course there are two sides to any swap and I received lovely pressies in return for the project pouches I made...first up Stawell Quilters September camp present (the swap that didn't happen at camp but in bits between us)...a fat quarter pack of lovely batik fabrics...they are happily residing on a shelf in the emporium waiting their turn to jump up and down and yell pick me pick me...

Stawell Quilters March camp....the present that matched my ticket number was a kit for a bag...

with all the ingredients included...

Scrub Stitchin'...the ticket number I held matched the present from Sharmayne...a roll of pretty fun fabrics, a wee pouch that will come in very handy, a crochet cloth that I have popped into the travel cutlery roll (along with the jar opener cloth Jo made in our Scrub Stitchin' goodie bags) and a sweet smelling drawer sachet...thank you Sharm 😊

Lovely swaps...thank you very much to all...

 

Happy Stitching...