Scatterdays # Q

Todays letter is Q and the categories are a

Plant,  Night time, Something Healthy, Something Quilty = Something quick.

A Plant Well my Dad always called this cactus Queen Of The Night . It has the most beautiful flower with a really strong scent, It is such a pity it only lasts one night .

Night Time  Quiet !

Don’t you just love the QUIET when the little Grandies fall asleep I took this a couple of years ago…It was night but they sleep with a light on …

Something Healthy Quinoa

I have had salads or side dishes made from this

Hmmm will have to try cooking it myself…My daughter had it in her pantry.

Something Quilty So something Quick ,  Easy what about a Quick unpick or three….very handy to have around for all that frog stitching rip it rip it…..

Can never have to many quick unpicks !!!…. ok see you all again next time . I am trying to get back into regular blogging so stay tuned for what I am up toand thanks for all the comments I do read them and its nice to no someone is reading my blog.   Pam .

SSCS Swap

Late last year for Christmas I was in a secret swap, My Partner was Terri from the US This is the gift she made for me So sorry its taken a while to get it up on my blog .

A cute hand made journal, some silk thread which I love for applique, and a table runner or banner in cute Christmas fabrics.

The Journal

lots of little tags

Do you know what this fruit is. ? the colour is so gorgeous bright red . Its a dragon fruit we bought them fresh from the markets. Not as much flavour as I thought it would have lots of little black seeds.

This is what they look like before you cut them.

My sewing from this week hand stitched appliqued clam shells another block done for Green tea and sweet beans .

Wet Wet Wet

Well you know how it is complaing about the heat, having to water the garden etc etc not any more .we have had over 290ml of rain since Wed night and its still pouring down so this is probably the wettest we have seen our Block . House is good and not likely to get water inside . As I am blogging from my phone I'm not sure what order the photos will be in .So there are various photos

Scatterdays

Todays letter is R and the categories

Mammal

technology

transport

Something red from my sewing room

Mammal a Rhinoceros

 

Technology – My Red iPad couldn’t live without it.

 

Transport

My shiny Red Pajero red goes faster !

 

From My Sewing Room something red ….

Fabric of course !

 

Come back next time !

Scatterdays W

I've taken on a photo challenge of scatterdays where we post a photo in 4 different categories

Expensive, Musical,

Exciting,   W I P,  for the letter W

Water at the Beach just down the road.

Expensive and Exciting  Opening my New Bernina on My 60th Birthday

Music for a little Ballet girl in her fist concert.

W I P work in Progress a block from my Green Tea and Sweet Beans Quilt…

See you next Scatterdays !

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Happy New Year everyone  Well finally we are in our new House. I have turned 60 and survived the end of the world On the 21 December. My dear Husband and daughters organised a fabulous High Tea for me and my friends before we moved. It was held at Royal Pines Resort on the 21 st floor and the view was amazing.

The food

The tables

My Daughters and I

My amazing Cake

The View

The Cake

I’ll be back later with more !

It’s not a race but I think I am winning !

For the last few months I have been sorting and packing , I am so over it .

My dear husband has now decided to retire, and he finishes this Friday, In his wisdom he decided we could move ourselves, so many trips towing the trailer full of both of our really good stuff…   and we are nearly there.  Our new house is finished and waiting and half moved into, meanwhile we have been repainting this house to get it on the market.  So not much stitching going on here . The cat is making sure he can come too. I think he could have found a bigger box .

I found this magazine a few weeks ago and just loved the cover. It is called Frankie and had some interesting articles. The cover is sort of embellished like a rubbing I suppose.  Very Tactile .

It looks like it was taken from beautiful hand stitching .

Another Weekend Gone

A busy weekend here ,gradually crossing things off the To do list before The house goes on the Market. While out helping , umm watching Himself build new front steps I noticed this plant in flower. I asked if any one on FBI new what it was turns out it is an iris a Brazilian walking Iris , such pretty little flowers but they only last one day I have done some sewing today And made a pattern for a couple of little girls dresses. This is the result .

Boxes Galore

Well to say I am tired of playing with boxes would be an understatement, Already the new house seems to have all we need but there is still a lot more to go north. My stitching is  only happening at night  or at my sewing days so progress is slow.

These are some more blocks from my Green Tea and Sweet beans Quilt  . Most Of the blocks I am appliqueing on papers . I finished the flower block today at Sewing. 

We cleaned out the walk in wardrobe  OMG  did we have a lot of stuff in there. It wasn’t just clothes but also used as storage too. Now I have a line of boxes along the wall of things we are taking to Moore Park

I have a couple of other things I have been working on but can’t show them here yet as they are for swaps i am in soon.  The weather has been really crazy 35 yesterday and down to 22 today and windy as but we really do need some rain the poor garden is drying up..

Back from The Big House !

Well I tried to be a smarty pants and keep up with my blogging by phone but it didn’t work The blog posts I di did not publish.  We are still living between 2 houses more in the old house than the new one .Most of my studio is up there and you can guarantee as soon as something has gone up there I need it here or vice a versa !  I love my new studio up there but alas no photo’s as I seem to have lost my camera  maybe on the train on my way home…..

I now have my old camera so am back to using that or my phone . The postman came yesterday with this..

These are for dresses for Miss Talula…

and these are the new Liberty Lifestyle Quilting cottons .

So pretty I do have a small collection Of Liberty Lawn but will keep that for a special project.

Ok thats all for now will take some photos of GreenTea and Sweet Beans progress tomorrow.

Progress !

A few weeks ago I started a new project A quilt by Jennifer Kingwell from Amitie, called Green Tea and Sweet Beans I just love it and I found another pile of fabrics I had already moved to my new house …..so brought them back again as you do..

From the kit . a multitude of colour….

More fabric yummy…

First block  Hexagons

These ones are called orange peel.

The next block I am still working on is clam shells  Ivé never done these before. Considering I am mostly stitching only at night I am going pretty well. It’s saving my sanity from all the packing and sorting going on here.

Sun Setting on a Beautiful Day

This weekend is the Gold Coast Show so it's a long weekend . We decided to make use of it and have bought another trailer load of furniture and sewing room etc up to Moore Park Beach . Last night The Blue Moon was amazing, today was the perfect spring day , this is the sun going down as I write.