Quiltingorchardist

What a sight to wake up to! In the garden outside my bedroom window this beautiful 11 year old Viburnum ( plicatum tomentosa) is at its glo...

"What do you want / fancy for dinner?" is often the cry around here. I enjoy cooking but often find deciding what to have the most...

Oh gosh, I'm getting all behind with what I want to say. Last Friday a carload of 5 crafty, quilty ladies from around here went across ...

Here are some more of the quilts exhibited at our recent Show. The colours in the Grandmothers Garden quilt didn't do it for.me but Yos...

The top pic shows the articles made from the fabric challenge. Some were extremely innovative. Only 9 entries - that was disappointing. The...

A selection of the 108 quilts and wall hangings our members had on display. I can't show all of them, just some I liked.

At our ( Tauranga Patchwork & Quilters Group) Exhibition over the weekend one of our own members was the Guest. Gladys Jones does except...

Now isn't this special. On display at Our Exhibition is this incredibly old quilt...230 years old ...from the American Civil War era. ...

Quilts, quilts, quilts. I'm dreaming quilts. I'm surrounded by them , but the Exhibition our P & Q group is having is going well...

Every year it is the same. I think I have got lots of photos of the Awanui Flowering Cherries growing on the driveway and every time I end ...

Fragrant herbs......ummm ...I love working in my herb garden as the smells that waft as I touch the plants are so yummy. This morning I clea...

I'm making great progress with the Eye Spy Hexagons. When I was out last Friday, I went to another little sewing store and found a few m...

Today I have 2 topics. I'll start with the pleasant one then if you don't wish to read the second you can miss the tale of wanton de...

My hand sewing project ( Hexagon I Spy ( Eye Spy )) is progressing well. FJ asked how I was doing certain parts so I will go through it s...

Amongst the trees we grow a few of are some Macadamia Nuts . We gather them as they fall or just before is even better. ( just as the green ...

Yesterday was a dreary day here so I got up late and decided what better time to finish things . First I finished the book I was reading.......

Today I have been checking the condition of the kiwifruit we have stored for our own use. If I keep it in a cool place and check it regular...

Signs of Spring are everywhere in the garden. Although I knew I would shorten their lives in the warmth of the house, I picked some Early Ch...

I've just been baking and the house is filled with the smell of spice. As we don't eat much of this sort of thing any more my baking...

Yesterday the packhouse started packing our kiwifruit crop. Since picking time it has been in covered picking bins in a coolstore at about 2...