Just before going to sleep I think about what I will do the next day???? funny thing is I really get to do what I planned; some thing else always comes along and all my plans fly out the window but I still do it LOL. May be it is the thought of a full empty day that I will have to my self that gives me a good night sleep. This is what I woke up to this morning.
It was much more beautiful than this but by the time I found my camera the best was gone.
Looking North this morning around 7.30am It is a 30 mins drive from my home to here a lovely drive down the range we are about 1000 feet above here????
Now turning around and looking South, my friend and I walk to the end of this beach and back it takes roughly an hour.
Looking back from the Southern end of the beach, it was a picture perfect morning.
I stopped at our local village on the way back home this morning and there were dozens of vintage sports cars visiting; there must be a rally some where up here.
How gogouse are these lovely old vintage sports cars, what a joy it was to be able to walk right up to them and admire them. They were parked in the village car park this morning.
Just look at that stunning YELLOW Lotus what fun it must be to drive around in the tropics in this beauty!!!!!
I was going to sew yesterday morning but this is what happened
Yesterday this was covered in 1/2 dead ferns DH cleaned them out for me, so this morning I have been out in the garden instead of sewing!!! This is getting a make over
First wheelbarrow full of dead leaves Ive plucked from the Bromeliads before I throw them on to the garden!!! Broms in the wheelbarrow from down in front of the house, then I have ended up with
THIS!!!! Start of a survival garden in our extreme climate; it now needs lots of rocks and more Bromeliads
This is an area where I used to like sitting quietly in the winter after-noon sun but has become over grown over the least two years, I removed all the hanging down Broms and used them to the garden bed above.
2 hours later we now have a quiet place again, it needs to be water-blasted to get rid of the mould, a splashed of paint here and there, some coloured bromeliads added here and there, a umbrella and it will be a peaceful place again.
Couldn’t help myself, after coming inside and having a shower I went back in to the garden and added more Broms here, a frame for the creeper to climb over and a screen door to cover up all the water pipes on the wall.
I did manage to hem my darling Annabelle blocks this week ready to be appliquéd on now. I brought the gerbera’s home this morning they are beautiful and bring spring in to my lounge.
I found time this morning to pin the circle blocks on to the background fabric
Then pined on the hearts so to night I will be able to start appliquéing them on if I can stay awake??????
I’m back working on those endless border hexagons of my 1930’s Grandmothers Flower Garden kingsize bed quilt
What wonderful fabrics she was able to choose for this quilt they were not left over scraps.
Every stitch I make to finish this quilt for the unknown quilt Im thinking about her. What was her life like, she had enough money to be able to buy all these different fabrics they are not just scraps or old shirts been recycled. she planned this beautiful quilt
that I started restoring, hemming, and quilting in 2013. I thought it would only take me the year to do it ???????. It takes me roughly just over an 1 1/2hours to add one hexagon?????? from the time I cut out the templates of wash away freezer paper and the fabric shape and make a hexagon, join it to the quilt turn it over to the back, quilt it then hem the edges down.
I’m adding 12 more hexagons this week they have taken me 10 hours so far and I still have 6 to quilt then hem around the outer edge of them all.
When I quilt it I have to take two movements to make one quilt stitch as there are 5 or more thicknesses to quilt through. There are only 210 hexagons to make but ever hexagon on the outer edge of the original quilt have to be resewn as they are all slightly bigger than the inner hexagons and will flute if I leave them as they are.
This is the only corner not completed yet , some one has unpicked the edges of all the outer hexagons I still have not worked out why??? may be they were going to cut the edges straight to hem and never had the chance or did they find they were going to flute like I did and had not got around to solving the problem????
So I’m sewing the sides of each hexagon to a 1/4 inch off the end, ironing a wash away hexagon shape to the back of each outer shape then finger pressing and basting the edges of the hexagons then I add my new hexagon which becomes the hem. SO thats why it takes 1 1/2 hours to completely finish adding one hexagon. But of course I don’t just do one at a time I have made all my hexagons and I resew 12 outer hexagons at a time and then add 12 new hem hexagons at a time.
Opposite corner finished and quilted, this quilt is a gem and I will find it hard to part with.
Last but not least a tiny slash of colour from the garden.
small local Dendobium orchid it’s so lovely to have these flowering in the garden.
A pretty small cattleya
I’m also quilting the whole quilt by hand quilting inside each hexagon. Hexagons are just under a 7/8th of an inch an odd size????? It is a delight to work on but I burn out quickly and have to have a change.
Off to link up with Esther http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/
Thanks so much for dropping in. Till next time Cheers Glenda
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