WOW or WIPs with Esther 11th May 2016

Number 3 quilt to be of quilty364 circle blocks cut out waiting to have a thread run around them to pull as this gives the perfect smooth edge for appliquéing them to the tiny blocks.  I do not have any more back ground fabric so my last 90 circles will have a different back ground but as it will be a quilt at 90 blocks it wont matter so much.  But I have loved using this lovely natural silk as it has so many shades of grey running through it from almost white to almost black.  These blocks will take me up to Sept so Im very happy and can just relax and enjoy making them.

Number 2 quilt in progress. I knew I was running out of back ground fabric but scrapped every wee scrap of fabric and sewed them together to make the last wee blocks some even made of 4 pieces of fabric, then to my horror when I laid them all out I was ONE short.  No mater how often I went back to the cutting table and my other work table were the other 90 were I could not find an extra one????? Finally I sat down with a strong coffee at my sewing spot and tried to convince my self I would work some thing out and there in front of me was the last wee circle and square I had not finished appliquéing???????  So that hole is now filled LOL

The last piece of the zigzaw added!  My goodness I was such a Happy-Chappy when I saw that last square.

Playing with fabrics to may be make the swirl block?  I cut out the block and make windows and it is a great way to see roughly what it will look like.

Still playing with the swirl blocks

Centre is finally sewn to the 4 corners. Now I just need to hand sew the black bias down and it is finished.

I stopped working on this quilt to be as it felt to dark for me, and after sitting there for several months while I was looking for some black fabric during the week found these 3 Australian fabrics so my NZ quilt has become an ANZ quilt.

Close up of those fabrics so all been well this quilt will start to grow again now.

A little local wild sweet pea

Desert rose

My mum use to grow these indoors and was so proud of them, here they grow wild out doors.

A lovely weeping display of ferns, around 7 different ones growing here.

looking up under the fern there is a stag horn tucked up under the birdsnest fern.

Found this tiny strange creature in my sink yesterday he is now back out side some where.

Our 3 baby insect bats are now almost the same size as their parents taken last night on my door divider the other one was hanging to them from behind the curtain?  It was dark and I shone my torch on them to take the photo,  they are use to me now and just stayed there.  They are all about 2 inchs long now.  They live on mosquitos so we like to see them here as they eat thousands a night.