Well there is not much to show to day sewing wise, I was a driver to day for some friends to visit the hospital today and I worked on quilting the front of a Tieshoulder-bag while waiting.
Making another mini log-cabin Tieshoulder bag. I love making these bags and at present these are the colours that keep drawing me.
On the way home stopped off at a lovely young friend place and she showed me around her garden. She lives one street over from my home. Cascading down from the trees above in front of her home are a couple of boginvilla’s.
Bouginvilla in full flower.
Then as you walk under the arbour you see this stunning display.
Stunning display and a very special young friend.
We use to have this growing over our trees when we first moved in, the base was in our neighbours place and when new neighbours moved in they cut every thing down and we lost many creepers that covered our trees, it was very sad.
Beauty at its best. Click to enlarge it is worth it!!!!!
I think this is one of the most beautiful creepers I have ever seen.
I spotted this glowing high up. Our Morning Glory’s are very dark.
Morning Glory
Finally a bobbing native hibiscus.
One of our native hibiscus.
On Saturday while cleaning up the attic I found the very first Quilt I bought.
My first quilt I brought. Made on treadle sewing machine in the Tongan Islands. 20 years ago. Just been washed.
I was living in the Tongan Islands and stumbled in to quilting by accident; a women from USA was trying to help the local women set up a cottage industry making and selling quilts, she was importing the fabrics from the USA and one day at a meeting of ex-pats she showed these quilts to us, I fell in love with this quilt and like many other ex-pats ordered one of these cottage quilts made by the Island ladies. This was 20 years ago before I was a quilter. This quilt has been washed once a year over the past 20 years and still looks pretty.
Last but not least I’m fixing up DSS’s patchwork backpack which I made him for his uni days 11 years ago??????
Has been truly loved. Very faded but still some life left in it. 12 years old!!!!!
Cheers Glenda Down Under but not for long.
Beautiful flowers, reminds me of Raro.
The quilt is lovely, no wonder you had to buy it.
Cheers Jenny