Not long to go now!! I am just about jumping up and down with excitement at being off on our travels, but before we go, as promised, the project I am taking to work on when I join Meredithe and her friends for a sewing day. I have so many things on the to-do list it was hard to decide, but in the end I settled on this
I love Anni Downs patterns (I have another book and a small pattern for a needlescase as well!). I have gradually been collecting small-print fabrics .....
....... including some of Anni's own designs
and of course there was the bundle of Lynette Anderson fabrics which had one with cats on it hidden in the middle of the bundle!
However, I won't be taking the fabrics with me, as I will be working on the stitcheries first. I photocopied the patterns, to make it easier to trace them on the light box
Once the patterns were traced, I put some thin iron-on wadding on the back (oops, forgot to take a photo of that stage!) and looked out an assortment of embroidery threads
We leave here early tomorrow morning, and finally arrive in Sydney on Thursday I've got lots of books on my Kindle and music on my ipod for the journey, but as it is an overnight flight, I will probably sleep through most of it. I got used to flying longhaul when we lived in Indonesia, so although it can be boring, I don't mind it too much.
When I have finished this post, I will do another three quick ones and schedule them to appear while we are travelling, as I still have lots of photos to share with you ....... and we visited somewhere new yesterday for our cuppa after our walk.
* and I'm still singing "all my bags are packed, I'm ready to go" and "I'm leaving on a jet plane"!!