WOW 22nd June 2016 LE, Friendship quilt, and Mars quilt.

We are having a full moons at present and it is incredible to watch this beautiful giant yellow ball  rise up over the range straight in front of our home each night.

Working on the ovals or leaves as some quilters call them, could not wait  to add some angels for a change.

Close up so you can see the silk brocade Im using for the background and ovals, angels are crepe silk. I have to use a 12  sharps needle to get it through the fabric as it is so tightly woven.

Last night I had to lay some of the tiny pieces I have prepped to see how it was going to look, I have been making lots of these tiny pieces over the last 3 years, but its still a long time before they will all be used up.

I was not happy with the large planet so unpicked part of it and added more padding it looks more round now. Just have a few more stitches to appliqué the silver planetary ring.

Papua New Guinea friend ship quilt we made these nearlly 20 years ago and Im just getting around to quilting it. As its all in blocks Im machine quilting it in the ditch, sewing machines and I dont go together because I have a bad back so Im doing one or two runs a day, another few weeks and it will be done I hope.

Back of friendship quilt this one piece was given to me by one of the ladies who made one of the wee blocks .

I called in to the shop first and there was a HUGE folded pile of pink and white candy stripped cotton fabric around 1  1/2 metres wide and 12 metres long???  it was marked but I bought it and have washed and dried it and it is on a roll now and it so heavy?  then it was on to the fabric shop loking for the wadding that costs soooo much down under around $65.00 for a large kingsize quilt, there in a very large bin were several rolls of it, 2 metres wide by 13.3 metres long for $90.00 reduced from $350.00 for VIP members guess who came home with a roll of cotton wadding enough for 6 quilts. I found the right fine iron on interfacing and a rack full of 12 sharp needles I would have liked to have bought them all but only took 4 pkts as they are so hard to find up here or any where in OZ so left most of them for other appliqué quilters. If they are still there when I go back I will buy some more!!!!!!  This weekend I hope to start sandwiching my PNG quilt to finally start hand quilting it.

This fun cotton batik  lap lap  from the Philippines was given to me this week  it may end up in a quilt!

Tiles been laid over our wooden decking as it gets to much rain on it.  it has made it so cosy out there at night time we will eat out there a great deal more now.  Biggest plus it will be so much easier to keep clean.

Some strong colour in the garden.

Usually the garden is very very dry now but it has not stopped raining since Jan 2016!!!!!