30/06/2020  Photo a Day  Four

    Family photo taken at a wedding in 2005 now we are a family of six.

29/06/2020   Photo a Day Three

    The three of us - my brother Andrew and sister Louise taken on my wedding day 13/12/1969 and one of the last pictures of us together.

28/06/2020   Photo a Day  Two.....

                                                   My two Grandchildren Luke and Zoe.

27/06/2020   Photo a Day  One....

With some prompting  I decided to add one more row to the side of this quilt and now it's more balanced I think.

26/06/2020   Photo a Day Z.....

   Zoe my beautiful Grand daughter

25/06/2020   Photo a Day  Y.....

                                              A very young Sheila Maura (my mother)

Another quilt top finished

   I just love these fabrics they're by Moda and are called grunge

24/06/2020  Photo a Day X.......

  For no other reason than it's topical at present this is my Great Grandfather George Dowling Moore who died in the 1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic  leaving behind a wife and 8 daughters the youngest of whom was only six years old.

23/06/2020   Photo a Day  W....

  Wambulgal School in the late twenties the boys on the left are Mum's brothers Brian and George and the girl with the plaits and hat is my Mother.The horses were their transport to school about two and a half miles from their home.

22/06/2020   Photo a Day  V.....

Very young Christine with her mother in our home at Chinaman's Beach

21/06/2020  Photo a Day  U......

  This is a young Uncle  George Doyle about 1927 when the family had settled at Wambulgal

20/06/2020   Photo a Day  T....

   Tim and Tamara my son and daughter in law

19/06/2020  Photo a Day  S......

   Sheila Maura , my mother aged in her late twenties I think.

Happy birthday Patricia Anne

 
 Happy birthday to my daughter Trish pictured here with her niece Zoe last December

18/06/2020   Photo a Day R....

                                          My nephew Richard who's a Chef in Brisbane

17/06/2020  Photo a Day  Q......

                                                       

          Quilters, my other family. Dianne  and Mary sewing and social distancing

More Patchwork

some more quilt tops have been pieced.

   This looks a bit better with the borders on , however I made many mistakes in this one.

                                                              I like this hexagon design and so easy to do, a Lincott design

Another flannel quilt for Jayne

16/06/2020  Photo a Day  P....

                                               Patricia Anne aged about  two and a half.

15/06/2020   Photo a Day  O......

                           My Grandfather James Oswald known as Ozzie to everyone , received a gunshot wound in WW1 and was a pioneer rice farmer in the MIA, and a  foundation member of the Rice Marketing Board.He died aged 64 in 1960 just before my twelfth birthday.

14/06/2020  Photo a Day  N.....

          Niece and Nephews

  This is a picture of my children and my niece and my nephews from left

            Liam,Joe,Hamish,Jenny,Richard,Isaac,Trish,Tim and Campbell

13/06/2020   Photo a Day  M .....

                                          My constant companions Molly and Millie.
Molly is named after my Grandmother's older sister Aunt Molly who lived in Leeton and Millie is named after my Grandfather's sister Aunt Milliewho lived at North Sydney not that far from us.

12/06/2020   Photo a Day  L....

                                                                 My Grandson Luke

11/06/2020   Photo a Day  K....

 Kathleen May, my paternal Grandmother was born in England and migrated to New Zealand with her family when she was seventeen , married an Australian Judge who was working in NZ and their three children were born in Christchurch.The family returned to Sydney in 1931 and lived in Neutral Bay for many years.Their daughter was killed in a tram accident in Sydney and the she was widowed quite young and as her two sons were married with children of their own she moved between Sydney,Melbourne,Brisbane and Auckland until her death at 96.

10/06/2020  Photo a Day  J....

Again I have many relatives with names that start with J, My stepfather, my brother in law and a nephew have Joe as a name, I have a cousin and a niece called Jenny an Aunt Joan and two cousins called Jayne and Jane.

            Jayne and I with our phones in the Irish Pub in Bathurst for lunch last June.

Patchwork

I recently finished these two quilts.

This has been a quilt top for about 10 years but I quilted it last weekend ready to give my Grand daughter for her first birthday.

This tumbling blocks quilt was done at a Michelle Marvig workshop about tgwenty years ago

9/06/2020   Photo a Day  I .........

                                                    My father Iain Donald McDougall

8/06/2020   Photo a Day  H....

                                                     My nephew Hamish mountaineering in Alaska

7/06/2020  Photo a Day  G.....

                                My beloved Uncle George , Mum's older brother

6/06/2020   Photo a Day  F....

                   
                                                        Family

                        My Mother (pink dress) and her siblings and their spouses in 1988.

5/06/2020   Photo a Day  E......

 Eileen my Aunt who died last year, the last of my Mother's generation

4/06/2020  Photo a Day  D.....

   My nephew David who died nearly three years ago.

Some Patchwork and quilting

I have been very busy in isolation sewing up a storm and finishing some projects.

    This quilt was design by Brigette Giblin and was the Raffle Quilt for her Quilts in the Shearing Shed, the Kiwi fabrics I collected many years ago and today I sewed down the binding.

 This is my version of the Squilters Mystery Quilt I have since added two borders and will take another photo.

  This is a wall hanging of birds on a wire taken from a modern quilt magazine.

 I finished this quilt top yesterday, it is called a Gaggle of Geese and although it was tedious sometimes I did enjoy the process.

3/06/2020   Photo a Day  C.....

There are many 'Cs" in our family because my Grandmother's name was Catherine, there's me Christine ,a Christopher and three Catherine's. This is my sister Cathy who is years younger than me and she lives in Bathurst.

2/06/2020   Photo a Day ....B

  This is my cousin Bronwyn who is about ten months younger than me, she lives in Deniliquin NSW

Photo a Day June

This month the Photo a Day is the Alphabet I am going to try  and post someone who is related to me each day.

1/06/2020  Photo a Day ...A

            

This Anne my oldest cousin the photo is about 60 years old , I think Anne would have been about 16 or 17 at the time.She now lives in Nanango Queensland.