Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts

Friday, September 6, 2024

Beginning of September....

Well, last week it was winter and summer and now we have gone to Spring.... that's what it felt like anyway.... 

Trees are greening up, flowers are blooming, bees are buzzing and birds are doing their Spring thing....   my most favourite time of the year....

I do love our Wisteria growing along the fence....


... the bees love it too and the scent spreads all over the garden....


I think this is a bottle brush variety.... flowers at the stems and is the only plant to draw in a little honey eater into the yard.


The prunus was full of soft pink flowers, then the wind blew and it looked like confetti...


I sewed a few more hexagons together.... this is the width of it now.  I will add half hexagons to the top to straighten.  Lots more rows down to do....


This months UFO is my Scrappy Houses.....  I never did more that these 8 in last years colour challenge...


So this week I made a brown house and found cream scraps for sashing and coloured for the cornerstones...

Happy with this made completely out of the scrap baskets...


The backing and wadding is left overs from previous quilts too - I did join the backing.  I found a half metre of bright flowers to use for the binding....  off to the Quilting Queue....


On Thursday at Embroidery Guild I stitched another little block Sashiko style...  that's #66 out of 365.  I really need to start focussing on this one soon.  The plan was one a day not a fortnight!


Knitting in the evening has resulted in another knitted cowl, soft pink.
That is the end of the lovely marino wool I had...


I got on and crocheted some more blocks for KOGO.  I want to get 48 of these so a blanket can be made with the two colours..... Half have the red centre and half with the fawn colour....  most of them are done.


Here is the cowl round my neck.... all garter stitch.


And that is my start to Spring crafting..... the nights have been cool and it's been lovely to sit and knit or crochet, sometimes with a cat on my lap!

Righto, Gotto Go - time for a cuppa....

Hope you have a lovely week.... xx




Thursday, August 31, 2023

End of August .....

this is the corner at our house....

we planted the tree you can see in the front corner and the wisteria behind it was our first planting....


this year (after 8 years) it is at it's finest we have seen it....
(brown grass = no rain)


smothered in glorious scented lilac....


.... and buzzing with lots of happy bees....


this week I finished off these two special quilts....


very open quilting


thick plush minky blanket on the back (no extra wadding)


two the same but different....


for two grandiegirls....


and made from their mum and dad's old shirts....


I found it impossible to get good quilting with the thick blanket, and the sides kept rolling, but they have worked out really soft and snuggly.... I'm still finding bits of fluff - it goes everywhere!!!! 

Some more Field Journal hexagons have been self bound....


... and I continue with the long top border of Civil War Bride..... slowly but surely....

Righto, time for coffee and off to help get the Embroidery Exhibition set up today....

Have a lovely weekend.....


Friday, May 26, 2023

Last week of May

This time of year is stunning.... cool/cold nights and glorious days

Late afternoon yesterday we went for a stroll around a nearby park....

Love this spiky grass - in real it is like one of those optical illusions with the round bally of soft spikes


a lovely outlook - it was a clear day and we could see the Bunya mountains in the distance....



One of the silver wattles is full of buds.... I found a few of these earely lovely yellow balls - it will be covered soon...


The grevillea's are in bud - we will go back in a couple of weeks....


There is such an assortment of the grevillea's....


This hibiscus has huge double flowers - very striking...


Kanagaroo paw... only a few with flowers...


... another grevillea version....


We found one little flannel flower - never seen it there before..... the petals are so soft..


... and another grevillea about to blossom


This week at home I finished the stitching on this Santa - which has been around for a long time.  Marina sent me the pattern ages ago and now I need to choose fabrics and finish it off to be a mini quilt ....


I continued with more tarts at stitching with the girls .... and a couple of evenings....


The Sashiko piece is finished.... I do like the look and am learning a bit more each time.

I'm not sure what I will do with this piece .....


I had a quiet morning tis week and cut and sewed 12 more blocks for the old shirts quilt - I have enough now to make a 63" square quilt.... next part is sewing all the blocks together of course...


Some more progress has been made on my Whitework......  I am speeding up - it took me about 2 hours to do one heart yesterday at Guild!!!


Righto, Gotto Go.... an out day today and I need another coffee before I go....

Have a lovely weekend...



Friday, November 5, 2021

This week.......


...... first week of November is almost over..... Tonight is FNWF hosted by Cheryll...

Feel free to join in.... sign ups are HERE at Cheryll's blog...

I will be mostly working on secret Christmas decoration stitching but hopefully do a few more rows of crochet too....

Tuesday hand sewing with friends got the binding done on the Nature Panel quilt.....


I really love it all, the panel was gorgeous to start with (thanks Ingrid) and beautiful backing was found, I had such fun playing with heavy quilting and then finished it off with glorious terracotta binding (thanks Jennifer for a much nicer colour description)

... so that's a finish....

... and then I put a few more pieces on this section of Urban City blocks....


Wednesday I had machine sewing at my house.... something satisfying by a load of scraps at the end of the day (not many were mine!)


A few of the plants in my garden are looking lovely.... this is an Illawarra flame tree 


which drops it's leaves then covers itself in these glorious red bells


The white Jacaranda is starting to drop flowers but it is still looking lovely


and the ornamental pomegranate's are just starting... such a bright orange flower....


I couldn't resist getting this book out the library... I've just started it...


I put together this top on Wednesday with the girls.....  I started the blocks at retreat in August... then did some more of them in October and now it is a completed top.... Made from a Jelly Roll and a bit extra using a pattern from New Ways with Jelly Rolls.   Instructions are provided to use up the left overs (which there is not very much) to incorporate into an interesting backing .... so I will sew them together next time....


I also added the peepers on to these blocks....  a fat quarter quilt which I will sash together next time...


Several people commented on the White Jacaranda so I thought I would show you pictures of the Yellow Jacaranda in one of the city parks....


It's very tall so  a lot of people don't notice it...


the label on the tree trunk...


blurry photo but can see the typical Jacaranda bell flowers...


So this week I took one quilt top out of the quilting queue and replaced it with another top! - no wonder the list doesn't get any smaller!!! haha...

Righto, Gotto Go.... a few things to get sorted and then I can play...

Hope you have a wonderful weekend....


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