Quilters from the Mallee

We have driven over 3,500 kms (2,174 miles) in almost 3 weeks and today we arrived in Cohuna.  The Country Quilters weekend starts on Friday night so I have a few days 'rest' first. Since my last post I have had another two day workshop with 18 enthusiastic girls from Hopetoun. Karen the workshop convener was very nervous when I arrived as this was the first event she had organised. But it wasn't long before those nerves were transferred to me as I had agreed that participants could work on whatever project they liked! So it was a busy time but I did manage to get a happy wave at the end of our two days together.......

 Saturday evening we had a wonderful show and tell (and yes Jude - below is one of the quilts that you quilted!!)

 How amazing is this quilt?.....

And Ollie is beaming with her centre block design inspired by the floor in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg - can't wait to see it finished.......

  Thankyou girls for inviting me and for giving us a chance to share in the true heart of the Mallee........you are all very special and I hope you get the rains you are needing for your crops very soon xx

While we have been away we read about the Australian 2012 Vanilla Slice winner and decided that our journey should divert to Birchip to check it out. Larry has a weakness for this indulgence so we did decided to make our own judgement.

They were pretty good but we still think they are not as good as the ones from Ballarat!

 Our travel was not so long today so I had a chance to go on a short walk in the bush where I found evidence of wallabies or maybe kangaroos??

 Glad these guys were behind a fence......

 Pretty sure this is the rabbit loo spot..........

 and in this hole lived enormous ants that were very shy - which is probably a good thing!......

So tonight we are settled in our cabin by the river and just look at the amazing view..............

Till next time take care wherever you are xx