WOW or WIP’s with Esther. 11th July 2018

It’s a beautiful morning and I have been out here since dawn when it was 17c now at 8.30am it is 23C. Update 3.30pm and it is 29C!

Writing for Esther’s WOWor WIPs this week. I have been working on my two UFO’s I brought down with me to work on, both have taken huge steps forward? Plus my Secret Garden .

I’m away from home at present so it’s not so easy to make a blog on what I’m doing on the iPad, its so so slow!!! But here we go???? My week has been spent going up and down to my home as hubbys car radiator needs to be replaced so he’s needed to borrow my car. It’s so so cold up on the range this week yesterday at work it was 10C which is very very cold for us here in the tropics!!!!! I’m sitting out on the veranda down in the city this morning at my sons home baby sitting this is my view as I sit and sew out here.

Border of Secret Garden

This is where I was last week with my scrappy UFO first two rows on the left joined in to strips. And I’m unpicking 8 blocks which had the fabric back to front?

Back of fabric is as lovely as the front it is a woven pattern not a print so may be I was trying to use the back too as a contrast??? But it did NOT work LOL. Now I can see why with the blocks all coming together and can see the pattern clearly.

Slowly she grows !!

I have so enjoyed making up these wee 6 1/2 inch blocks all due to my Bernina p1/4 inch foot with the guide attached I’m able to sew a straight seam!!!

As it is this morning I’m working on the right hand end row the missing blocks are been joined at my sewing machine.

My scrappy blocks waiting for me to finish writing my blog LOL.

Up date 4pm Today Wednesday finally finished the last two panels. Not sorry to see them completed I was all most machined out sewing them all.

My 1930’s Glorified 9patch blocks have all been unpicked bar 3 blocks, some are waiting to be pressed for recutting some are ready for resewing, May be tomorrow I will start sewing them back together. I managed to pick up 3 pieces of fabric at our local sale at 40% off to cut out melons to join these blocks. I wanted to use fabric from my stash but my lights are very limited.

Piles of different stages of my 1930’s Glorified 9patch blocks . From the right hand side last 3 blocks to be unpicked, next 8 blocks ready to be pressed to recut??? Ones upside down sewn back together but waiting to be pressed, pile on the left finished waiting for the mellons to be added and blocks joined in rows. Back row left start of blocks that have melons added right of them melons cut then some left over pieces plus one block that is 1inch cut too small he will not make it to the front of this quilt top, may be will be a label at the back?

By Friday night I had done Soooo much cutting my blade was chewing the fabric instead of slicing it, plus I’d used the last of my top thread, so first thing Sat morning I popped up to Spot light for a new blade and some thread till I get back home in 10 days time!!!

I went shopping just for a new blade!!! But they had 40% of all fabric shop wide??? I did want some new fabrics but at $27.00 a metre here in OZ you think twice before spending well I do. I came home with a empty purse LOL. Black I bought 5 metres of as I’m all ways running out of black? The other 5 metres I will use constantly. Fat 1/4s I’m using now and right in the middle is the cutting blade and thread I went forLOL.

These I bought to finish making my little scrappy quilt blocks and they are now all cut up and little churndash blocks.

these I bought because they were $75% off and with some beautiful fabrics that Nancy gifted me will make a beautiful appliqué quilt. At $90.00 a box they would not have come home with me but 75% off who could not buy them LOL.

This week sharing some of the local birds down in the city by the ocean as my son does not have a very big garden to share photos of? below these tiny wee birds came in to the back yard a couple of days ago, first time Ive seen then and they have not been back????

They look like wee mice????

or may be wee squirrels????

Then these fellows flew in as a wee flock to the same day??? black birds are called Drongos and the one pal yellow one at the bottom is a Figtree bird.

This fellow comes in each day and he is so funny to watch? Sulphur crested cockatoo.