Good Friday

One of the delights of Good Friday is to eat heated hot cross buns. Scrumptious. Casey thought they smelt good too, he put his front feet on my lap and looked at me imploring me to give him some. Who can resist those big brown eyes. He knows Mum is a soft touch. This morning we weeded the bearded iris bed, which should have been done last Autumn, the roots had grown so much. I would like to buy some more colours before it's too late. There is another iris bed which Casey has claimed as his own. He has been digging in it, so far he hasn't dug any plants up. One of our boarders is leaving us next week, the surprise is that he stayed so long. We are hoping for another student like him.

Bags to match my outfits.

This is one of three bags I made recently, fully lined and quite easy to make.

Our 50th wedding anniversary was three weeks ago.   These sons of ours! one ignored the occasion and the other did not get the message, his wife did not pass it on.   Anyway we decided to go bowling and then to lunch at a favourite restaurant.
We have ordered  my eternity ring which is white-gold with a strip of 10 tiny diamonds and my solitaire engagement ring is being re-built.  The claws wore out and the stone fell out, and the actual ring was too small.  Almost as good as a party/

Slowly does it

Yes, slowly does it.  Or perhaps I am too slow.  I took some quilts to the sewing group on Friday, they love to see what others have done.  One of the members loved my scrappy quilt (the one with small pieces and a white print border.  I may make another in a different colour-way  Hand-sewing down the binding of one of those quilts is going very slowly

I am still working on one of those quilts, (9 patch with a drunkards path block worked around it).  I will put a photo up when I complete it. I have decided to make it bigger so it wouldn't need such a large border.

I have another quilt planned  next, the pattern magazine and  some FQs are in a  bag waiting for me to buy some background fabric.  But I am staying away from the fabric shop for now because my wallet has not yet recovered from my weekend in Sydney.  There is a Quilt show on in Melbourne (Australia) next month (April) and I am planning to go.

Back to the garden!  Tomorrow, we plan to go to the nursery to get the vegetable garden going again.A few bags of compost and several punnets of seedlings and  we will have some veges to harvest through the winter.

Autumn

On my way home yesterday morning I detoured to pop in at Kmart's garden department for some seedlings for our front garden.  I came away with 4 punnets of Cinerarias and a Gardenia, all of them strong plants.

This afternoon we spent a few hours in the front garden pulling weeds.  We cleared one garden patch for the plants I bought yesterday and planted the Gardenia.  The soil was so dry it was dusty.  The seedlings will go in tomorrow , maybe.

Next weekend we will work on the back garden.  I am planning on buying some more Bearded Irises, which I love,  Unfortunately they are in bloom for such a short time.

Planning, planning

The last three quilts are now at the quilters, so while I am waiting I am continuing with a 'wavy' pattern I found in a recent American Patchwork and quilting issue..
I was hoping to do a Winding Ways quilt but after a few blocks decided it was beyond me.  I found another pattern, Snowball/9 patch, and I think I will do that one next.  I plan to do it in red/white so I can give it to my son and daughter in law, hew favourite colour is red.

Recently, I bought 2 books, Circle Pizzazz and  Quilters Mixology.  Always reaching beyond my capability...

Using my scraps

There were fat-quarters in my scrap basket that had pieces cut from them.  I cut rectangles 5" x 2.5" and this is what happened.  It is a large single bed quilt with a white print border.  The backing will be solid pink, a large piece in my stash.  I have made 2 bags  from the leftovers, and still the basket is overflowing.