WOW or WIP’S Work on Wednesday or Work in Progress)

This week starts off with my WIP I spent last Wednesday after-noon and Thursday playing with my Whim!!!! My conflowers looked more like cuttle fish than coneflowers to me????

They look more like cuttlefish than cone-flowers!!!!!

I decided to try setting my centre on point

Putting you block on points can me magical?????Click of picture to enlarge it looks quite different enlarged.

and what a difference it made, now my cone-flowers looked like some thing out of space; may be space fish in the black hole where may be there is life!!!!!!!!!!!  So now my mind went off on a new direction planets????? I lay down my black wool felt wall design cloth placed the centre then dug out several disks I’d made for planets plus the rays of the wakening sun that I was going to use on a quilt one day for my grandson; made up some ice-cloud circles out of yellow paper and added these to play around with; now this is where I was up to on Thursday; I now have to find the right fabric to use for the back-ground, it has to be dark I think?????.

My whim turns in to a quilt idea??????

I found this wool Kimono that made me think of the Northern lights or Aurora Borealis

Wool Kimono. Flash has made it look lighter than it really is. When a Kimono is unpicked fabric measure 14" wide from selvage to selvage

and unpicking it, it took me 21/2 hrs. A kimono will yield 4 1.1/2 metres of 14in wide cloth 2 lengths of 1 meters not cut then 4 metres 7 inches wide. this means you can end up with a quilting backing of  2 meters square if you join them.  Woollen fabric from a Kimono irons up like new with out having to wash it.

Fabric ironed and laid out on the double bed.

Yes I think it is dark enough and has a milky sky look to it. I was thinking of a single bed quilt but it just gets bigger!!!!!! Now I think I will add the Southern Cross to the bottom right hand side which you can only see from down here and a 7 pointer star to the left hand side to represent the 7 states of Australia.

The Southern Cross stars and the seven pointed star which represents the 7 states of Australia.

Very very early this morning I have pulled some fabrics for Esther’s Wild Rose block; colours I remember from seeing them when I was a child walking to school to catch the bus and I would pick them when I walked home for my mum.

Pulled fabrics for my Wild Rose

I even managed to cut out one flower on to freezer paper before I left this morning and made  up 5 of the petals while sitting waiting for my friend at the hospital; these are silk fabrics.

I don’t have any thing flowering in the garden at present but took these photo’s on the way down my street this morning.

Early morning sun catching these beautiful tropical flowers.

A Hugh splash of purple

I brought Chrystel our niece from France back up with me from Cairns, I’m going to cook her a Chicken Roast dinner her last in OZ. After 8 months stay in OZ she flies back to France on Friday Via Japan to stop over and stay with Callum and family. We have been sitting out on the patio in the sun around 27C with the dogs catching up on her latest adventures travelling around OZ.

Chrystel on her last day with us.

Well that’s it for another week. Happy stitching every one, Cheers Glenda PS if you want to see what others are doing on a Wednesday pop over to Esther’s blog and join us for WOW (Work On Wednesday or Works in Progress on Wednesday)  Esther also has another  beautiful free BOM  again this year.

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