With a bit of rain recently we had a massive rainbow one afternoon.........it sure was beautiful......the country side is looking a picture at present.........and the golden yellow of the wild rape in full bloom is stunning........some of the other daisys are flowering now too.......i'll have to take some pics.........

to big to fit into the screen.......a double had started also.........

Recently I had a surprise.........Janice and Mick arrived and had the night with us.........I was gob smacked as I had no idea they were coming.........of course Miss Jules got to catch up with Janice too and here's a pic of Janice, Miss Jules and me.......

first visitors since Covid19 and its something that I miss.......

The other day the sky was looking pretty.........this is over some of the barley crop and then the clouds..........makes my heart sing.........

the advantage of being up early zoom sewing in the shed I got to watch the sunrise over the silo's.........

So what did I sew this time.........I worked on Blue Lanterns again.........

joined these 5 onto the side of the top........

started to join the section below to add to the top right side.........

Everytime I go onto zoom sewing I get very excited to see who i'm going to catch up with....

Its just a wonderful.....very easy conversation.........everyone working away and it's amazing what everyone achieves.........the only upside of Covid19 I can see we thought to try zoom sewing.....clearly i'm not the only one of us that needs this time to connect with like minded people.......

Below is a list of the girls who joined in this time..........a few of you have asked for the blog names etc so here it is.......its great to see you getting around and checking out the girls who are new to you and leaving comments and connecting after the sewing sessions..........

And I just have to do a little squeal of excitement when a couple of you have blogged again......after a big break.....its great to see what you have been sewing.......

If you are in SE Australia stay warm this weekend.........lots of low snow forecast in areas that rarely get snow too......and where I am I will get the freezing colds winds off the snow and they say it's going to be pretty windy for a few days..........

Stay Safe........

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

Chookyblue..........

Hi Girls.........

Loving my sewing time with you.......

Everyones welcome so join in the fun.......

leave me a comment so I can send the link

So Sunday i'm going to sew again.....

6am until about 2pm Sunday 16th August.

For the rest of you scattered around the globe

New Zealand 8am Sunday

 Oslo 10pm Saturday

UK 9pm Saturday

New York 4pm Saturday

Michigan 3pm Saturday

Vancouver 1pm Saturday

hope i've got those times right.......

This weekend I needed to step back and take a breath. So I did. 

I had a massive day chatting and sewing on zoom and sew I did. I achieved heaps.......

I started at 6am and went thru til 10.30pm......yes very long but it was so much fun catching up with everyone........it's like they were all sitting in the Chookshed with me stitching away.......with lots popping in and out around the globe as the day progressed.......it is weird working in all the time zones and that someone packed up and went to bed and when they woke they joined back in......but so much fun.........and we all have the common link of patchwork and quilting.....And there may be another person coerced to make Trail Mix with Maria and Janice.....

Early on I added the green and white block into the gap. 

Goodness knows why I had a gap anyway it's filled now.........

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Not having the next block prepped I moved onto another long time project.....see below.....

Scarily I looked it up and in August 2011 I started this one........I remembered Leanne @ The Stitching Room had shared a photo of hers finished just after I had just got the pattern and papers. I didn't even know she had been making it. 

I should have taken a photo when I started today but at this point I had added 4 blocks on the top part of this section...........I have all the cream and blue blocks made for this quilt except the edge ones.