Scrub Stitchin' 2026 - the fun continues

The theme dinner was held Friday night this year...and the imaginations came out in full force with the costumes for the Favourite Book Character theme. I went as Death, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld...forgot to get anyone to take a photo.

 

The Make It Fake It Bake It Swap was held...I scored Natasha's present...a pretty cut glass jar...with a handy pincushion on the lid and filled with binding clips...can never have too many binding clips...and some yummy chocs...thank you Natasha...

I made a tote bag using two printed panels with blue wrens (love blue wrens) and added a few goodies inside...all wrapped up in a fat quarter...Jo received my present...and it seems I neglected to take a photo of that too!

 

I was lucky enough to win a lucky ticket prize...

Love these fabrics...

 

Now the fabrics and zip that were in our goody bags...of course they had a purpose which was finally revealed...the ingredients for a project...a zipped pouch...Saturday everyone was ordered directed given instructions for the pouch, with the aim that it would be finished that day. As I don't take a machine I watched what was being made and made mine when I got home...beautiful Liberty prints...

I added the hexagons on the linen as I felt it needed something...using scraps of each fabric (the orange solid is the lining)...I first thought to embroider Scrub Stitchin' 2026 but doing the hexies was quicker...I used the hexi template that was in our goody bag and machine appliqued.  Happy with how it turned out, a useful addition to the pouch supply. 

Happy Stitching... 

Scrub Stitchin' 2026...

Wahoo!!!! Time for Scrub Stitchin' !!

 

Around the room...all set up...early arrivals set up and ready to get sewing...the theme this year is "Favourite Book Character" and among the quilts decorating the room were book themed ones...

the one in the middle on the end wall is Jo's "The Old Woman Who Ate A Fly"...it is interactive!

Library quilt...

 

Another library quilt...and a Harry Potter cut-out...book themed posters on the windows...

 

Excitement level...High!  Goody bags at the ready...oooh what is inside...

How spoilt are we! The name tag, which Di made, is a book mark, tuck it over the corner of the page, very clever...she also added the pen...the butterfly, made by Janice, has a magnet in and is in my one of my favourites - 1930's fabrics...ruler and templates engraved with Scrub Stitchin...so useful...yummy Brenda coconut ice, look forward to this and I eke it out when I get home to make it last! - the caramello koalas don't have such a long life span ha ha ha...Jo made the little pouch...such a pretty cup...and that bundle of fabric and a zip??? mystery that will be solved another day.

 

It was so exciting to have Deana and her friends come over from the USA...so great to see Deana again and to meet her lovely friends...she made some of us a special gift...

 

How gorgeous it is...very spoilt and very special...

My main project (of course there are options "just in case") is Alice...here she is lying on the floor waiting for the placement to be pinned during pre-planning at home...the border shapes are basted on (the medallions were just sorting out placement)...

Didn't get as many appliqued down as I thought I might (neck said no!) but each one is one less left to do...easy to do in company with the shapes going nowhere and not having to concentrate on anything more taxing than picking the right colour thread spool...quite relaxing.

 

Happy Stitchin' 

Off to Scrub Stitchin'...Day 5...Tooraweenah

If I'm in Tooraweenah it can only mean one thing...Scrub Stitchin' is not far away...another roaming curtailed by the diesel situation day but it was actually a really good thing...I just spent the day going for a walk...up to the viewing platform where I can get mobile reception...

 

Murals on the toilet block at the park...

The Returned Soldier sculpture at the Viewing Platform...

...played in the sunshine with the camera along the way taking lots of random pics of birds and trees and of course...the Warrambungles (from the Viewing Platform)...

...before heading back to the cabin and setting up a sewing station to keep basting lots and lots and lots of EPP diamonds and hexies on to the borders of Alice. Got them all on, worth the prep so it's ready to pick up and stitch without worrying about placement or pieces falling off.  A very productive day really.  A walk over to the pub to order takeaway for tea (a whole 5 minutes not rushing), a walk back 1/2 hour later to pick it up and the day was done.  Pretty productive really but quite relaxing...ready for...

One More Sleep!

 

Happy Stitching

Off to Scrub Stitchin' - Day 4 - Trangie to Tooraweenah

Leaving Trangie it was a short drive day with four hours to fill in between check-out time and the earliest check-in time, so no rushing today...and it was a beautiful weather day perfect for a wander...on the way out of Trangie in a park I spied a mural on the toilet block and etched designs on the bins...

On to Gilgandra, and after filling up the fuel tank, I went into The Coo-ee Heritage Centre (the Tourist Information Centre)...Chooky had given the heads up that one of her neighbours had her artwork hanging and I had plenty of time to spare so a bit of a wander was in order...besides the local artwork exhibition there are two other galleries, one with a display about the World War 1 Coo-ee March and one with local history museum pieces...and in those exhibitions I managed to find...embroidery and quilting!...

there was also  an exhibition in the grounds a mural on the back of the stage wall and a number of mural boards set around the lawn with various themes...

Still time to fill in, so back on the road to Gulargambone to check out the street art...bullock sculpture which is pretty cool...the galah sculptures on poles are scattered throughout the town and the district...

murals on buildings...a number by Lightning Ridge artist John Murray (the quirky ones)...

had to take a picture of this one...after all...sewing!...

The shops may be empty but the windows were not...art installations of the non-paint variety... 

After walking about the main street looking at the art, and popping into the Post office to get a job done, it was time to find the painted water tower...the colours are so muted and calm...

It was late enough now to check-in so...on to Tooraweenah...

 

Happy Stitching... 

Off to Scrub Stitchin' - Day 3 - Leeton to Trangie - Part 3

After the unscheduled stop in Tullibigeal it was back to the plan and onwards to Tottenham (the NSW one!) hunting the painted water tower...Goanna, Galahs, local scenes...

Last water tower for the day was Nevertire...sheep, wheat, cotton and a reminder to Change Here for Warren...the light wasn't great as it was getting late so it was hard to get away from the shadows when taking pictures...

The end of a long day was in sight with Trangie only being less than 1/2 hour up the road and the longest driving day done.  Scrub Stitchin' is getting closer...only a couple more sleeps now...

 

Happy Stitching...