Weekend happenings.

I've had quite a productive weekend really, although all of this was done Saturday. I'll try and do some more tonight. Today we've been making an annex for a friend - but that's another story. And I still havent taken shots of the veggie patch again yet.

I have been getting things ready to do when I go away on a UFO weekend next w/e. This Scrappy Bargello I made quite a while ago - like 12 months - and have added the dark and the red borders to make it bigger. Still have to decide on the backing for this yet.
This is a backing I have made for my Eye of the Tiger quilt (below) using 10.5 inch blocks - idea courtesy of Bonnie Hunter of quiltville.com fame. I have been cutting my scraps into usable pieces of 10.5 inch, 6.5 inch, 4.5 inch and 2.5 inch squares, and then strips of 2 inch, 2.5 inch, 4.5 inch and 6.5 inch. I had enough of the 10.5 squares so put them together (actually, there is a 3" strip of black on the bottom cos I dont think it's quite long enough, but not enough for another row of squares.

This is the detail of my Eye of the Tiger quilt (pin basted), trying to show how each post in the black sashing I have tried to fussy-cut a tigers eye, hence the name.

And here is the full sized quilt. I havent quite worked out how to crop a photo yet. Have to ask my son when he comes to visit tomorrow.

Right now it's time to get some dinner going.

CU next time,

Faye.

My New Cushion.

This is a cushion I made from the miniRR block that I got back recently. I added a Prairie Point edging that I think looks good. Julie was good enough to give me some extra fabric so that it all ties in. I love it, and say a big THANK YOU to all who worked on it for me.

The photo taken outside is probably more the true colours. The inside one is taken with a flash and the greens are too brilliant.

I'll be back with an update on the veggie patch in a day or two.

Cheers,

Faye.

The Veggie garden

Well, here we are in the veggie patch. We have to put everything into containers, cos the trees have very invasive roots. Love the trees, but love our veggies too, so, .... containers it is :-)

The canoe was one our boys used to have

when they were kids and it was just rotting out, so it now makes a very nice veggie plot.

The wheelbarrow was rusted out and hubby was going to take it to the tip. I convinced him it would make a good garden. He says he'll paint it for me later.

In the canoe we have 3 cucumber plants, 4 rocket, 4 English spinnach, some sp.onions and 1 strawberry plant, then radish, carrot and beetroot seeds. The carrots aren't up yet - another week or so. There are also some self seeded rockmelon, and a celery head that is sprouting.

The wheelbarrow has 4 silverbeet and some sp.onions.

We also have some pots of snow peas, 4 more strawberry plants and tomatoes - 4 roma's and one black Russian. So far the containers are working well. I also have several parsley plants, rosemary, thyme, mint and garlic chives. I still want to get some lettuce plants going, but we need to make up some more shade for those, so they dont go to seed quite so quickly. Cant wait for summer when I can pick my salad meal of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, snow peas, rocket, carrot, radish and sp.onion, along with sliced beetroot from the garden. Yummmmm!

I love to garden, dont you?

Cheers,

Faye.

My new table runner

Just have to show these on my Blog. My on-line quilt group have been making mini round robin quilts, but the centre I made for this one was not quite square, so I used it as a "Nesting" robin. I was pleased with the result, but what to do with it now?

I decided it would look nice as a table runner, and

.....

ta-daaaar! :-) I love it!

I've decided that's what I might do with more of my orhpan blocks. This style of table runner is quite easy to do, and what a nice way to transform those leftover blocks. Might make a couple for Xmas presents - if I get round to it ..... Xmas has a habit of arriving too soon, and best laid plans are "out the window!"

I'm off to take some photo's of my veggie patch - the ones in the canoe and the wheel-barrow! I might even do 2 entries on my blog today. :-)

Cheers,

Faye.

Miniatures

These are the two blocks I made for a mini Round Robin that I'm in. They are each 4 1/2" square. They are marked A and B, and one goes clockwise round the group (of 6) and the other goes anti-clockwise and each participant will add a border. It will be interesting to see how different they are when they get home again. I must admit I'm rather pleased with how they look.

Tomorrow I'm going to try and get out in the garden and take photo's of my veggie patch. I've decided this blog should record not only quilting progress, but also the garden. We dont have a lot of veggies. We have a lot of trees on our 5 acres and their roots are very invasive, so we've decided to grow in pots this year. I'll show you what we are using when I take the photo's. It's what you'd call "recycling".

Till then, cheers,

Faye.

Airing the Quilts

This weekend just gone we went to Geraldton,

and on Saturday went to Northampton to their

Airing of the Quilts.

The main street had quilts all along it, and there

were lots of stalls. I had a great time wandering around it all.

We took Adam's Mum with us and he looked after her while I went and looked at whatever I wanted - for as long as I wanted. It was wonderful.

Then, on Sunday we went to Dongara for their "Hanging of the Quilts". This was held in "The Priory Lodge" and was an excellent venue. I didnt take as many photo's as I should have, but I really enjoyed it. And I met up with lots of people I knew and hadnt seen for ages, so it was a really good day.

These are a couple of quilts that I really liked. Simple

but very effective. Actually, I think the black and white one was made by one of my friends, so I'll be able to pick her brain a little on how the mechanics work :-)

Yes! A wonderful weekend, and completely unexpected. My husband usually avoids quilt displays if he can. LOL.

Till next time,

Cheers,

Faye.