Last week I finished making my 1st Sweet 2016 block. This was such a FUN block to make.
Where it all started making my macaroons.
Another week has slipped through my fingers, sewing is my constant companion at present and having Esther Aliu lovely designs to quilt and sew keeps me sane.
I arrived late at the shop to buy my macaroons and all that were left was one cake stand of assorted Macaroons!!!! See below LOL
My 1st block of Sweet 2016. My block finally ready to be sewn together. These pieces are just placed. Completed this block 9th Mar 2016
This is one of Esther’s designs it is a mystery BOM for 2016 called Sweet 2016 and so much fun to make. If you are working on a few quilts that take a lot of concentration like I am this year this is a fun mystery BOM to join in with in between your major projects.
Trying out backgrounds, no to bland for meLOL
What if I add some strips to that background fabric. No still not right.
My Macaroons made but how to stack them to look inviting enough to eat?
Will this lace be OK if I unpick ? I made up 10 macaroons now which ones to use as the plate only needs 9 to balance the display?
I call this my work station every thing at my finger tips. pieces of LE Quilt, PNG Quilt, Quilty365 circles, and Little Hazel for part 3, a DVD and CD player, my iPad, a fantastic view, a wee dog for company and I can lye down on the sofa when I’m tired. life is GOOD.
Start of a computer bag. Making the bottom of the bag using a thick felted wool in between two cotton fabrics, will show more next week????
This week I have spent a great deal of time sewing my panels of leaves for my PNG quilt, here are the 4 borders at different stages. I love how the yellow berries make the pinks in the panels pop.
In my garden this week. It has started to rain and so every thing is been given a good wash and how happy they now look.
For this time of the year there is so much colour in the garden after a dry wet season, even the toadstools are so colourful.
Strong splashes of colour pop out from every where.
A surprise find in the garden on one of the palms?
Plus we are seeing flowers on palms for the first time and many are so unusual. It Looks like a sea creature to me.
A dead flower head from a palm tree some of them get very big, this one covers a 6 seater table so is not small. When it is covered in red berries the birds flock in.
This is the biggest scorpion I have seen here, I thought he was dead and nearly picked it up to photograph!!!!! I would have been a sick chicken if he had nipped or jabbed me!. I did not know we even had such big ones here. I have been bitten by one about the size of this ones legs and OHHHH the pain so goodness knows what this one would do to you. Would you believe they sell these for pets?
My view this morning??? I can only see as far as the bottom of the orchard, we are closed in with clouds. I have all the windows closed to keep them out and I’m nice and dry.
This group of heliconias are enjoying the rain, they look great after a good wash.
This moth which is the biggest in the world was on our verranda screen several years ago, I just found the photo yesterday and took a photo of it to share with you. It was a perfect moth and flew away the next night. It was a good 12inches across.
This is one of our native frogs and is very a very calm one, he will just sit when you come close and not even move if you touch him, he was sitting on the other side of my window where I sew at night time last night he was a good 4inchs long crouched like this! he must of worked out the insects are drawn by my sewing light. Will be interesting to see if he is there tonight.
Thank you for dropping in and reading my blog, Im now off to link with Esther as it is WOW today on her blog
http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/
I will enjoy visiting other links there from quilters all around the world and see what they are doing.
Cheers ALL Glenda
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