My take on the Locust Grove quilt published in Better Homes and Gardens American Patchwork and quilts 1985 There are 4 of these blocks in the centre .
How did it get to May??? Blogging to link with Esther’s WOW or WIP this week. Sorry I have not answered you messages this week, been fighting a nasty abscess so have not had the energy to do much at all but sit or sleep.
Most of the week I’ve been working on my QG when I did any sewing.
But over the long weekend (Downinder had a public holiday) I went out to baby sit family pets while they went camping . Here is life in the country 7 mins in a car from where I live, vegataion and wild life is very different as it’s sooo dry there to here on the edge of the tropical wet rain forest.
life among the gum trees not rainforest trees?
ENjoying the early morning dawn and what it brings?
mum and babies.
EVen the dogs enjoy watching and not chasing out here. A giant fruit from the passion fruit gen
A giant passion fruit but not the kind we know in the shops comes from Sou5h America if I remember right?
coffee beans are aboundent this year.
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yes it is a deer!
A Very happy deer.
I went down to take some photos of the horses and this beautiful lady came for a scratch and pat.
SHe wanted to know what my camera was?
NO it’s not eatable LOL
so beautiful
WHats mum doing I’d better go and see pony coming up behind?
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ALl most finished managed to appliqué down 50 plus circles
In the garden or close by this morning
WHen I walked out this morning to take my garden photos the local tourist train went past below our home!
First two engines needed to haul the 13 carriages up the range!
Last carriage
my bonsai leaves have change its new leaves from pink to green this week.
Same tree as my bonsai but left to grow will reach 15 metres in a few years mine is over 25 years old and a metre high.
A month ago we had to cut a sapling from here, it has sent up 6 new saplings from its base? Things are so hardy and grow like weeds if it rains which it is doing now?
THis wee flower is about 3/4 of an inch across?
OOld steps removed and new turf laid where entrance to swimming pool use to be.
When looking for colour inspiration I just need to walk around my garden!
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IF we didn’t chop back hard we would disappear under the Under growth ?
AGain trying to get the road frontage to look nice with grass, turf has been down 6 days and looking good second 1/2 will go down this weekend all been good.
A Leaf caught on a stick, leaves with holes in them fasanate me.
Ginger is a lovely orange this week.
A great splash of colour?
Old faithful throws me a new gem every day?
SStunning colour!
Shells and more shells under my table where I’m writing my blog this morning but now afternoon LOL
4 more Grapes to add and this block is finished 3 more to go for my centre !!!
Left bottom block is finished now.
Hello Glenda,
thank you for the beautiful pictures from animals and plants, from flowers and your holydaytrip.
Your applique block is so beautiful.
Greetings, Marita
Hi Matrita, funny to think we live so far away from each other but both enjoy the enjoyment of sewin* and sharing and we can stop in for a chat any time if we want to? I love the kitted scarf you have just made, it’s turned so cold for us that it would be lovely and warm to wear here now in the mornings. Days are beautiful every day now the we5 has finally left us for another 7 months. Cheers Glenda.
Dear Glenda
Now I know why all your quilts have so much energy to them, it is all those beautiful colours in your garden. Just love the horse. Animals can make us smile and they can just let us forget all the stress of life. The wildlife is the cherry on top.
Hi Maggie been looking at your site and all though you have been sick you are still managing to do soooomuch on your beautiful wedding quilt? I do love Japanese taupe colours, and I have admired there quilts for over 20 years but I find my self drawn to bright colours over and over in my quilts LOL. I guess it’s as you said I’m sourrounded with all these exotic colours I live and breath them every day. Hugs Glenda.
Your garden is so beautiful! What a lovely inspiring place to sew and quilt.
Hi Gretchen our beautiful sunny days are back again and to day was soooo lovely if I had not wanted to finish some machine appliqué it would have been so lovely sitting out under the sun umbrella on the front patio. I looked at it longingly though LOL. Cheers Glenda.
Hi Gretchen our beautiful sunny days are back again and to day was soooo lovely if I had not wanted to finish some machine appliqué it would have been so lovely sitting out under the sun umbrella on the front patio. I looked at it longingly though LOL. Cheers Glenda. PS I woke up to 10C this morning and during the night each time I woke up heated up my wheat heat pads in the microwave oven to keep me warm during the night LOL Id freeze in your climate LOL
love your grape block – so many circles. What a lovely area you show – I always love seeing your plants – and yes hard to believe it is May already – the year half way over.
Hi Karen I finally finished the first block of my Red and Green Block and this week found time to machine appliqué down the leaves on the second block and I have pinned down the first bunch of grapes which are waiting for me to find time to hand appliqué down. I’ve been spending most of my spare time working on Queens Garden I’ve just loved making this quilt top. Machine appliqueing it so it is growing fast or it seems to be after doing all my quilts mostly by hand. Cheers Glenda.
You are surrounded by beauty! Thank you for sharing those lovely flora pictures and the wildlife as well. I love to see how different it all is compared to what I am enjoying presently (late spring) outside Ottawa, Canada. Hope you feel well very soon.
Hi Jocelyn, yes where every you go or look there is beauty all around us here. You just have to for get about some of the not so nice creepy crawlies that are here too LOL. Feeling much better and enjoying the dry sunny days if rather cool for us. Cheers Glenda.
The colors in your garden are always so beautiful. I can’t believe having a kangaroo come through the yard. It would be quite a sight where I live. LOL. Hope you’re feeling better.
Hi Kyle, yes the garden is looking so good now with the rain finally left us, and the grounds drying out the weeds and under growth is not growing so fast and we can clean up the garden with out the leeches, mosquitos and sandflies LOL. I enjoyed my 3 days out at my sons block it is so different to where we live, and I so enjoyed sewing on their large covered over veranda and watching their wild life. Cheers Glenda.
Have you seen the post on Sue Garman’s blog this month? A new pattern has been released posthumously and it is as stunning as your applique block. I just love the photos of the lush habitat – but since our holiday in Port Douglas they make me feel the humid heat of the tropical north. Thanks for the lovely variety of words and pictures. Hope you are feeling better.
Hi Alison and thanks for stopping in I’m feeling much better thanks. Yes I believe Sues quilt is influenced by the same antique quilt as mine was. It’s aquilt in a old home called Locust Grove in Louisville Kentucky. It’s amayzing how many members have visited where we live, it’s a great tourist spot. Cheers Glenda
It’s a little piece of paradise indeed. We have been on that train! Travelled over from New Zealand to visit Australia and do some touristy trips, such fun.
Hi Jenny nice to see you again, life flies by and we get busy with our life and sewing. I like the wee wall hangings you made on your last caravan trip. I know what time of the day it is by the tourist train going past 4 times a day LOL. Cheers Glenda.
Every post is enticing and inviting! I feel like I get an insider peek at your world and life each time, and am extremely grateful. Your roots are in the most beautiful of spaces! When I get all gushy about wanting to travel and see it in person, I just have to remember the scorpion and spider though, and don’t give my passport a second glance. Thank you always for sharing your work and world, Glenda.
Hi Julie, not sure where this week end to but all ready it is Tuesday again, Ive been on the computer the last 3 hrs catching up on my mail, its very cold here to day so its nice to stay in doors and keep warm. Going to brave the cold now to plant some sods of grass before they die, they have been waiting 5 days now for me to relocate them!!!!!! But my sewing has called the loudest LOL This morning planted out some turmeric and ginger so next year will have some nice fresh roots to pull. Cheers Glenda