Show day, and I ouched Bernie!

This week I did one of the silliest things - I gave my Bernina a big ouch! I had the single hole needle plate in place, and horror of horrors, I forgot about it and switched over to a zig-zag stitch ... Oooofff. So I'm feeling kind of sheepish, because each time I use that darn needle plate I worry about forgetting, and I finally did it!

Anyway, Bernie is off at the health spa now, I think her timing is out. And to be honest, she needed a service anyway, so I have my sweet little Featherweight out for a play. Have I ever told you that her name is Lucky?

As much as I love my modern machines, there really is nothing like the beautiful stitch that the Featherweight makes. And I just love the sweet sound she makes while stitching. Vintage machines really are adorable.

So, all the blocks I've made so for the second half of the Churn Dash sew-along have been pieced on Lucky, and I'm really loving how they're coming along:

I have all the components made up for the sixteen blocks, I just have to sew the remaining ten blocks together. I'd love to get them done right now, but I'm absolutely bone weary!

And the reason for my tiredness is because my Mum, Dad, Amy and little Mary and I went to the Royal Adelaide Show today! We wanted to visit with my quilt and see the other quilts on display. But also we wanted Mary to have her first show experience. And she absolutely loved it. I already shared pictures of my quilt last week, so instead I'll share a couple of snaps of my sweet grandbaby having the time of her life!

Having a great time on one of the kiddy carnival rides. There is a video of this too and she is loving it, but I'll have to figure out how to get that on here.

And here she's starting to run out of steam a little, but enjoying icecream from the dairy pavillion. Mary had the best day with a pony ride, a carousel ride, the carnival ride, and her first bus trip to get there. She fell asleep on the bus on the way home. It was a big day - for all of us!

This weekend I am going to try and get the rest of the churn dash blocks finished - and then I'll get back to the last applique block for Lily Rosenberry. I'm so close to having the centre section finished! Maybe next week I'll be able to start working on the border, I'm super excited to get to that stage!

That's it from me for this week - I'm absolutely ready to catch some zzzz's, it has been a big day! Chatter soon! xox