It has been raining for weeks, on the 1st April that morning the sun tried to break through but didn’t make it? Cloud base was down so low it was at my front door?
1st of April and I had To go down to the city. I went and had lunch at my favourite wee restaurant which is at Muddies children’s water play ground right on the edge of the ocean, sadly the tide was out but I was happy to eat fish and chips with the best mug of coffee
I sat and stitched tiny tiny stitches on a DJ block and let the world drift by? Even when the rain drifted in from the ocean and blocked my view I just moved my table and chair back out of the rain and kept stitching LOL.
I dropped in to a wee patchwork fabric shop near the Cairns Airport called Hooked on Sewing before going in to town and these Australian batiks were spilling all over the counter waiting to be put back on the shelf? I fell in love with them specially the blues and aqua’s . ,
The owners daughter offered to make up a swagg roll of one of each colour while I was in town. A swagg roll is 5 1/2 inch’s wide. Now how’s that for service, it is not only a great wee shop with top quality fabrics but great service.
So if you are ever in Cairns and need a fabric fix drop in to see them.
These lovely lovely Ozzie batiks on the right and on the left is a swagg of Hoffman’s lovely fabrics.
Those Hoffman’s will be great for wee DJ blocks.
Nnow isn’t that a sight for saw eyes if you are a quilter?
As soon as I saw these
I thought Tropical rainforest, sunsets, and the beautiful coloured fish and coral in the Great Barrier Reef which is on our back doorstep. We are so so lucky to live here?
I started DearJane blocks years ago, My hubby bought me the book I thought??? but it turned out it was the CD and the book how to use the CD Big mistake to try learning how to make DJ blocks and how to use the computer to learn to make the DJ blocks. How I hate that ET book not its fault all mine, I’m a visual person LOL I have a couple of dozen blocks made over lots of trial and error but now with a great many hrs of machine paper piecing and many many hrs of hand applique I can work my way slowly through some more blocks?
DJ. Block
I have been looking for my DEar Jane folder for months and a few days ago found it, where? On my bookshelf of course??? So I’m back making some DJ’s mostly because I know a lot more about cotton fabric and quilting than I did years ago when I started to make these wee blocks.
Back of DJ M – 13 I have cut away behind the wee square I appliqued in the centre and spiralled the hem to take the bulk out of that tiny square and it is sitting nice and flat?
DJ F – 9. Colours are no5 bright like this , taken at night time.
DJ F – 9 using the dark maroon from one of the new Hoffman fabrics I just bought.
DJ. F – 9. This is very close to the true colours I’m using. Such a sweet wee appliqué Block ? Time consuming but with it. All hand applique.
I laughed when I really looked at my work table this morning? There are 7 projects lying there??? From sewing Lewis Bears Harris tweed hat back on, to giving Kangaroo a new nose, plus my Diamond Hill in-fore ground designed by Esther I’ve just pulled after buying some more black fabric, of course I will find the original border fabric now I have cut some new ones? Tomorrow I hope to mitre the corners and irondown my stems.
Thats it for today ! I’m off to link with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s it’s great to be back blogging after months of just been to busy with endless cleaning trying to keep things from been distorted by the mould it’s been a long wet monsoon season this year and it’s still not gone?
Thank you for dropping by, it’s been a frustrating day as I have written this blog twice today, for some reason my iPad was showing it was been saved but it wasn’t, second time round I hope it is??? Yep all saved LOL. Cheers Glenda
Going to link with Esther now over on her blog for WOW or WIP’s
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