Promising Signs.

Promising signs of good things to come are all around me. In the mail a letter from NZ Quilter with this booklist and a voucher to get free cards   IF  I purchase from their stall at Calico Christmas in Auckland this weekend. Thanks! It's in my purse already, because I know I will be buying book ( s ) from them. ( we are going up by bus again this year - this Saturday -Yipee! ) 

A promising sign in the garden; a cauliflower almost ready to eat.

Strawberries starting to ripen.

A promising sign at last of sweet smelling delights - my sweetpeas suddenly went crazy and climbed like mad and now just at the top of their frame are breaking into flower. ( the whole flower garden at the moment is just a delight with wonderful smells and colour . All the roses are out. I counted 13 Iceland poppies out at once.( yellow and cream and orange ) Colour, colour everywhere.)

My favourite iris is out- what a colour!

( the bees -  yeah, my house guest -  or their rellies are in heaven ) I guess all the rain over the last few months is making things thrive.

There is also the promise that one day I will have a completed table runner - but that is some way off. hand work takes a while. I found that my little clover iron bought for bias tape is good for pressing the very close together seams. The squares were cut 1.5 inches so on the back the quarter inch seams are close together.

 

I have now added the next row to this, so 5 rows done.

Outside their is also the promise of work - yes, yes. I'm just going to work with the promising flower buds on the Kiwifruit vines. It actually does have the promise to be a great crop this year!