Woohoo! Made it to Baradine!

 Hugs, tears, and warm greetings were had! People I thought I would never see again I WAS ABLE TO SEE FOR A SECOND TIME. Unbelievable!  I really don't travel, so I can't believe I actually made this trip twice.

I fell in love with these two quilts on display and bought the fat quarters to make the bright one on black.

My bundle...

I would love to make Sandy's quilt design sometime too. I found a new style of fabric to love in her booth. Here we are together as new friends. Such a lovely and happy lady.

Jenny showed me the pinwill block my sister, Tracy, made for Jenny on our last trip to Australia.  Love how she made it into a bag!

Annette, Brenda, and Sue pose for me to take their photo. Annette and I made memories last time I was in Australia...major late night laughing attack.

Brenda makes the best pink candy and sews amazing quilts.

Sue is truly a sweetheart to spend time with.

I was actually able to go fabric shopping with my dear Aussie friend, Jo. With her I purchased Tilda fabric to make a bag like this.  

 Jo has also inspired me to try out Sashiko.  I purchased this Aussie inspired and printed panel to do just that.

I also needed a 1 meter piece to contribute to the Rainbow Connection Quilters. I chose this. Betty will give everyone in the group a piece to put in a future block. I also picked up the lavender and green because they matched.

Quilt Shop, and Forbes with Sue and Raewyn

 We just happened on a super cute quilt shop in Braidwood. The owner was so talented. I was in love with this quilt she designed!

Look at it up close!  She has won awards for her work.

I purchased these aboriginal styled prints in this shop.

We got a kick out of Aussie signage. In America, "Give Way" signs say "yield".  "No Overtaking" is "No passing".

I like this sign too. We have horses  and understand that non-horse people might not know to not drive up next to an animal on a bridge. 

It was a lovely day touring the sculpture art with my long time Aussie/NZ friends as well as longer time friends from home. The name of this sculpture was "Road Kill". If you zoom in on the details, you will see a roo smacking the road with a dagger causing it to curve up. There are vehicles on the damaged road.

I have an interest in the aboriginal culture, art, history, and have even purchased fabric in that style. Loved this big guy!

After the sculpture art, we saw an Aussie rendition of Route 66. I loved the car art! It is hard to even tell that some of them are cars.

Zoom in on the next photo to really see the art.

Rainbow Connection sewing and Day 4 was mostly driving

The past couple of days I have been sewing for the Rainbow Connection Group. My yellow strip is done, and red, purple, green, orange, and blue are making some progress. I am hopeful to finish soon and send them off to B to join their friends.

Day 4 of our trip:

We left Bateman’s Bay in the morning headed for Forbes.  We saw our first kangaroos today. You Aussie's would have got quite a laugh watching us scramble for our cameras. SUPER EXCITING for us!

We stopped in Canberra for a look. The city was too big and too busy for us. We made some very funny memories at a totem pole (my description)at this place. The totem pole was rated "R"; hence, Ev is covering it up. 

We also enjoyed seeing both the old and new Parliament buildings. I immediately recognized seeing the open space and flags on an episode of The Amazing Race.

I wish we would have gone to the war memorial and quilt shops, but we headed down the road.

Next stop was Cowra and the tower art.

Lori risked her life to get those close photos. A sign on the walkway warned us of snakes. Lori walked through the grasses to get the photos while we watched and prayed for her life. No way were we going over there!

I took these two photos of the scenery.

Here was my distance/zoomed photo. I am certain there were slithering critters hiding out there.

We found a large cactus in our travels. We also needed to stretch our legs for a bit. I really do love cactus.

I really do have sewing to share once I finish blogging the trip. I am getting closer.