Saffron Craig fabric

Hi Everyone,

The latest Saffron Craig range is in store. Wombat Wonderland.



It features wombats and others to co-ordinate and it is 100% organic cotton.

I hope you are enjoying seeing so many new fabrics!

Happy stitching
Gail B
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Fabric

Hi Everyone,

More fabric! A small range of animals chevrons spots stripes, sounds good any idea??







A very useful range of spotty blenders great colours and a great price of just $14 mt.








Bye for now.

Gail B
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Fabric

Hi All,




A new book in store "Little Stitches" by Aneela Hoey. The book has 12 projects and over 100 patterns with lots of tips and techniques for embroidery. We have lots of Aneela's fabrics in the shop to complete your projects.






Mama said Sew by Sweet Water by Moda. I love the simplicity of the colours black cream grey red. What a great range to make two colour quilts!

Happy stitching
Gail B
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More fabric

Hi Everyone,

This is another range that has arrived at the shop.













"Coquette" by Chez Moi for Moda. We have fabrics on the bolt, fat 1/4's, and precuts.

Happy stitching
Gail B

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Time for fabric

Hi Everyone,

Time to show you some of the new fabrics we have in the shop!




"Fox Hollow" by Monaluna, which is an organic cotton, and at just $20 per mt it is great.

Show you some more soon.

Happy stitching
Gail B
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Hi Everyone,

What a day. I went into the shop today to photograph some of the new fabrics which have arrived!! Not to be.

At about 9.45 there was a loud bang, and the power went off. A truck had caught the power line between the power pole and our shop! So we were plunged into darkness.






Russell went and bought torches and customers were treated to a staff escorted torch tour of the shop. A big thank you to our customers who all handled the situation in good spirit.

Russell is still at the shop, he has just recently been told we are the power companies next call. 6.15pm. If you have been trying to phone us today, I am sorry but the phones were out of action also.

I will try to get the fabric photos tomorrow.

Gail B

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Recovery

Hi Everyone,

This last week, what I didn't tell you was that my recovery and all the chocolate was being bought in Queenstown New Zealand. Back in Feb our the 23 year old son and his girlfriend Hayley invited Russell and I to join them on a holiday to Queenstown. Feeling very privileged to be included in their vacation we all booked and waited for September 1 to arrive. After my hospital stay etc we decided I had to manage approx 8 hours to get there, so we booked wheel chairs for the airports and off we went.






This is the view we had from our apartment. Not a bad place to sit on the couch and recover.





We had a great week doing some sightseeing and just relaxing and in my case recovering.

I think I have only been in the shop for 2 days in the last 4 weeks, so I am quite excited to get back there tomorrow. I am still not up to doing full days, but will be there as much as I can.

How much new fabric has arrived in the last 4 weeks??

I will try and show you lots over the next few weeks.


Happy stitching
Gail B
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Hi Everyone,

Sorry I have been absent.

We completed the Newcastle Craft and Sewing show on Sunday 19 th August, and packed up our stand, and started the long drive home at 6.30 pm. We arrived at Ringwood private hospital at 12.30 on Monday afternoon to visit my Dad, Keith who was in Knox hospital when we left two weeks earlier. The discovery of cancer necessitated radiation treatment, which he has had and is back at home and slowly recovering from.

We left the hospital and went to Rebecca's for lunch and then to swimming lessons with six little grand daughters. Mondays, although tiring is one of my favorites. This was the last Monday where all six grand daughters were under 3 years old!

Tuesday and Wednesday were spent at the shop packing the stock to be sent to Brisbane for the show in October.

Thursday we got to the shop early as our sale was starting the next day and I had to make some decisions as to what was going on sale. As it was Myra's 3rd birthday we had to leave the shop on time to go to her Birthday dinner. BUT, at 9.00 I started to feel unwell. By 10.30 I had been admitted to Knox hospital via emergency and diagnosed with a hernia problem. The abbreviated version, operated on at 5pm Thursday. Friday morning am told I can go home Pm, if off morphine, no problem and holding down food! Noon vomitting starts and the nausea doesn't stop. Eventually discharged Tuesday. Still unable to eat but going home. Friday I manage to eat 1 teaspoon of yoghurt and 1 grape. at this stage I have lost 6 kilo great for the diet but not recommended.

I am still not back at work, but by Monday night decided I had to eat something. Chocolate will go down. It worked chocolate milk, chocolate brownies, cadbury chocolate. I am now eating 3 meals a day.

The sale has been and finished and I am very grateful to our wonderful staff who ran the shop through the sale and are still doing so, as I recover.

To my wonderful husband Russell who has overseen the shop, while looking after me. Our son Brenton and his girlfriend Hayley who helped at the shop. Our son Hayden who was on annual leave and worked at the shop on three days. Our daughter Rebecca and her husband Gwilym who with four young daughters who were unwell and was without her car still managed to get to the shop many times to set up for the sale and restock most nights.

Thank you all

Gail B


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