Outback Adventure Part 4

 We headed out to Kata Tjuta. This used to be known as The Olgas. It's about 50km from Uluru.

 It was quite a hot day when we went. You need to go very early in the morning as it gets just too hot and the rangers close the track at 11.00am. We headed off on the Valley of the Winds Walk and hiked to Karingana Lookout. It took us about two and a half hours.

 

 

 At the Karingana Lookout. It was quite spectacular. The photos don't really show how great it was.

If you drive along this road you will reach the Western Australia border. Only 190km. Although a bit too far to head for a drive to add another State to our trip.

This is looking back the other way at Kata Tjuta.

 Back at Uluru waiting for the sunset. Everyone sits along here and waits. It is really quite civilised and very pleasant. We had drinks and nibbles. I rang my mother to tell her "we are sitting at the side of the road having a wine and nibbles watching a rock"! Where else would you do that!

Winter Wonderland!

 I'm in an on-line stitching group and we just had our Angels and Mortals Winter Wonderland Swap. My secret mortal was Dale of Club Quilt Narromine. This is what I sent to Dale. A mug with Snowy Owls on it. A rug mug to match. Some yummy Ferrero Rocher "snowballs" and a fat quarter with snowflakes on it.

I tried to duplicate one of the owls on the cup.

 My secret angel was Maree of On My Verandah and boy did she spoil me. A gorgeous twisty scarf which will be great at the footy, a beautiful lavendar bag with my initials, one of Maree's Ollie and May Designs patterns, a hot chocolate for one set, some marshmallows and yummy chocolate biscuits.

 Isn't the lavendar bag lovely! It smells devine.

It's hard to get a good picture of the scarf but you can see what I mean by twisty.

Thank you Maree for my lovely goodies.

12 Inch Mini Quilt Swap

 

I joined Cheryll's 12" Mini Quilt Club Swap and the theme was "Welcome". Today I received my quilt from my secret partner, O'faigh of Oldbury Cottage. Isn't it gorgeous! I just love the fabrics she has used.

 

Here's a close-up of the teddies. O'faigh has painted them and then added some stitching. Aren't they so cute!

This is the mini quilt I have made for my secret partner. It's all ready to wing itself to it's new owner's home. I hope my partner enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it for her.

 

A close-up of the bee buttons.

My mini quilt looks lovely on it's stand sitting on my treadle machine cabinet. Don't you agree?

Thank you O'faigh for my beautiful little quilt and thank you Cheryll for organising this fun swap.

A Blogger Get Together!

I spent a lovely afternoon yesterday meeting up with some bloggers, some for the first time. We arranged to meet at the Bundoora Homestead. We did lots of talking, had lunch and then viewed the Tea Cosy exhibition. 

Going from left to right is Annette of Jindi's Cottage, me, Simone of Quilts n Cats, Elyte of Tea, Fabric and Other Things, Melody of The House on the Side of the Hill, Tracey (who's squatting down, she's really not that short) of Mistea Crafts and Marina of Maisie and the Boys.

 There were a few patched cosies.

 I really liked this bluebell one.

This is Tracey's Rapunzel tea cosy. Can you see her Prince waiting at the bottom for Rapunzel?

Thank you girls for a great afternoon.

Outback Adventure Part 3

I'm sure you've been wondering where the rest of our photos are. Well, this is only the afternoon of Day 1 and the morning of Day 2 at Uluru! I hope you can survive all the photos! The camel trek was a highlight of the whole trip.

 

The camels all lined up and waiting for us.

 We were in the sunshine while there was quite a storm happening over Uluru.

 

 Noel made an extra friend!

 

 I'm not quite sure what they are looking at here. How's the colour of the sky! That's actually a rainbow.

 

The next day we headed out to the Rock to watch the sunrise. Unfortunately it was a bit cloudy but we did get some colour changes.

That's Uluru to the right. In the sunshine in the background is Kata Tjuta. That used to be called The Olgas. I'll show photos of that another post.

 

 We went for a walk around the base. There are so many different formations in the rock.

 The Waterhole.

This part reminded me of Wave Rock in Western Australia.

Cave paintings.

 Some quiet time to just sit and look!

FNSI!

Well last night I stitched three labels! That's it! Nothing more! At least I got them done. So not a very exciting FNSI report! Hope you did better than me!