"Broome, Melbourne and Meeting the Neighbours."

Hello,

Happy 1st July.

Last month has been and gone,only a small amount of sewing was done. I chose six Spirit of the Outback designs for some place mats that had to be sent to Broome for a housewarming gift.

 I originally wanted to stitch them all out in the black thread but when I was half way through stitching the fourth design, it all went haywire. I stitched and un-stitched  part of the design several times. I soon worked out that the Robinson Anton thread that I was using was faulty. The thread had become very thin. With no thread available in town I had to stitch the next three in bright pink thread.

It all worked out in the end as I was using some pink Frangipani fabric on two of the sides and black Homespun on the other two sides. Black Homespun was used for the binding and backing as well.  Our friends new home is in Frangipani street in Broome.

This morning seeing it was such a lovely start to the day I decided to go and see our new neighbours.

I met this one first, the elder of the family. Rather curious to see what I was up to.

As I went further up the hill, it came closer.

Here are the three other members of the family. Isn't the little one so cute. I spent quite a bit of time talking to them.

I only have to walk a few minutes to meet the neighbours, it was lovely up there by myself. I often think of that saying: 80% of the people live in the city 20% get it right.

The sun decided to go behind the clouds for a few minutes

I wish I could take some of the hay down to the garden.

Melbourne.
Lucy and David left last week for a holiday in Melbourne, they watched two AFL matches on the weekend. David's friend Sav flew down from Sydney to spend sometime with them as well. Lucy has some written instructions about a certain shop she could possibly visit and purchase something for me. We will see how she goes. Lucy fly's back later on this week but David is staying on in Melbourne as he has decided to live there and attend University over there. Best wishes with your studies David. Apparently he is getting used to the cold wet windy weather.

The love letters I wrote about in the last post were actually a secret little giveaway. One went to Sally and the other to Narelle who left comments on the post. The love letters contained the little penguin design stitched out on red fabric just like the one in the table mat I made.

Happy days.
Bev.