Sunday Stash Report

I've been busy this week sewing lots of different things but haven't got much in the way of finishes.

I did finish a small 6.5" heart block to go into a quilt that a group I am involved with is making for the children of a friend of ours who died. I have been tasked with putting the blocks together for one of the quilts. Another member of our group had already squared all the blocks up so that made everything a whole lot easier. I only received the blocks and other fabric on Friday at lunchtime and by dinner time I had the blocks sewn into rows. I had also made the one extra block I needed to make to have 36 blocks so I could have 6 rows of 6 blocks. 

I also made a cover for Fixit Guy's Chrysalis worship book. Mostly when you do your flight or walk in the Emmaus/Chrysalis movement and you are given your little book they also give you a cover for the book. Somehow FG missed out or managed to lose his and so I made him one (using butterfly fabric). Its another tiny finish using 20cmx30cm piece of fabric.

Its sitting on my ironing board but the flowers behind look rather good with the butterflies

On the plus side I haven't bought any fabric so that is good for the spreadsheet.

My big finish for the week wasn't quilty related. I completed my talk for our Emmaus gathering. The theme was Refreshment, very applicable to country Queensland at the moment as we haven't had proper rain for 4 years. I based a lot of my talk around our recent visit to my husband's brothers' properties, North of Charters Towers. The pictures I took there as well as some of our experiences were a big part of this talk. I made a couple of special slides (I did a power point to go with the talk) which I was very pleased with. I loved how they turned out

So my stats for this week

Week 46
              Fabric Used                   0.10
              Fabric Added                 0.00

Year To Date
              Fabric Used               138.39
              Fabric Added               76.70

Net Used/Added                         61.69 used

Linking up with Judy at Patchwork Times

Monday Meaderings

Not sure why I make all my blog posts about the day they are written and then have to have alliteration going. Never mind - perhaps I am just a bit weird like that

Have been away since last Thursday on a very busy weekend. My husband was lay director of the men's walk for Emmaus in our area this year. Its been lots of preparation for him and I've just hovered in the background supporting him up to this weekend. I went on the Dining Room team, looking after the housekeeping support stuff for the weekend. Fangirl and Boyo came along too to help out. What is Emmaus? I took this explanation straight from the web page of the Walk to Emmaus Australia webpage.

The Walk to Emmaus is a spiritual renewal program intended to strengthen the local church through the development of Christian disciples and leaders. The program's approach seriously considers the model of Christ's servanthood and encourages Christ's disciples to act in ways appropriate to being "a servant of all."

The Walk to Emmaus experience begins with a 72-hour short course in Christianity, comprised of fifteen talks by lay and clergy on the themes of God's grace, disciplines of Christian discipleship, and what it means to be the church. The course is wrapped in prayer and meditation, special times of worship and daily celebration of Holy Communion. The "Emmaus community," made up of those who have attended an Emmaus weekend, support the 72-hour experience with a prayer vigil, by preparing and serving meals, and other acts of love and self-giving. The Emmaus Walk typically begins Thursday evening and concludes Sunday evening. Men and women attend separate weekends.

It was a big weekend with late nights and long days but it was also lots of fun and fellowship for those of us on the dining room team. Its not all hard work.

I haven't done any quilting since last Wednesday night. I didn't even organise myself any hand work to do whilst away. I finished up the embroidery I was doing. I played on my computer instead and wrote several blog posts and read other blogs that I had to catch up on as well.

Since I got home I finally started to work on organising a school reunion for my 40 years since Fourth Form/Year 10. I had been thinking about doing it since last year but till this weekend was over I couldn't think about it. Now I have probably left it too late for this year but we can start the ball rolling for either next year or the year after that when it will be 40 years since our final year of schooling. Lots of students didn't complete year 12 but I doubt that we will be elitist and will include anyone who was in our year through out our high school time (and maybe even primary school too if we find anyone!) I tend to be a bit... if you want to come and celebrate with us, come along.

I haven't even got any photos to include. Am going to have to get Fangirl along to help me pretty up my page so that it still looks visually appealing even without photos. I just worked out how to change the text colour. That might have to do for today

Fitness Friday

I think this week it should be not so much fitness Friday. Its all been messed up with Annie dying, Fixit Guy home on holidays, Boyo home on holidays, Easter, extra church services, play rehearsal etc etc. I haven't run at all this week. I have managed a walk most days and by sheer determination ie running on the spot at 11.30PM I have made my 10 000 steps each day but that has been just about it. Oh well no... on Easter Sunday I made myself do 16 000 steps to make up for all the extra chocolate I ate and I have tried to do a few extra each day as well cause I have been finishing off the Easter treats. The Mother's Day Classic is only 3 weeks away now so I am going to have to make some time to run a bit more to be sure I can make the 7 kms still.

I am away from home this weekend, involved in a Christian retreat called Walk to Emmaus. I am not sure I will get much time to actually walk ... might be doing some running on the spot in my bedroom at night. I am going to be sharing with Fangirl so hope she is up to the challenge of me being crazy in the room at night.

Weightwise... not a lot of joy. I managed to keep the damage from Easter down a bit for a start but certainly haven't lost anything... might have put a bit on but still under 90kgs so feel ok about that. Half way to my goal... need to lose that extra 9kgs that is loving me too much.

I was looking through some old photos of me this week. Looking at the photos on my phone. I sure did pack the weight on there for a bit and think that I am looking a whole lot better. Will try to find some comparison shots for you when I am able to access my photos more easily