Quiltingorchardist

It's going well. We had a huge rush at 10 am. 29 aprons have sold. 2 quil...

Phew! Such a small band of ladies got all the quilts hung and w...

* Thanks for your generous comments, about my hair - I will do it again but ask for lots more foils, so they really show! * Th...

It was appallingly wet today. 8 brave ladies dragged their sewing machines into our building where we meet, getting a b...

On this blog I will not unburden myself and discuss many things I think about because some of my friends and someone very close read here...

Although this is the coldest Winter we have had since the early 1980s there are still spots of colour and signs of Spring that make my heart...

Food for thought, or thoughts of food. It is a fabulous sunny Winter day, so for my exercise I did one final sweeep of all the Kiwifruit bl...

The binding is on - now that sounds like I'm finished, but I'm not. I have quilted the braided borders, so the edge was done. The cr...

Having taken several hours to quilt one end panel I decided to do extra careful preparation before tackling the corresponding other e...

A pot of cheerful Lachenalia at the back door. Today I want to declare war on packaging. All I wanted was a new set of sheets and pill...

It has continued to rain all day SO, I have continued to quilt. Mostly It has gone well.The braided borders told me what they needed and wer...

I've just been for a late afternoon walk . Mists surround me, there is calm and silence everywhere except for leaves crunching under m...

" Now that's a strange title," I hear you say. Well, celebration because I now have "The Jewelled Bird Quilt,...

Frosty starts to our mornings - now that is unusual weather for us. In the last 31 years living here we have probably had a to...

I love books and reading! So does R but he reads at a rate that means many books are needed ( he read 75 last year ). Well, go to the ...

I have sewn 2 of the 4 Scarab beetles for the corner posts on the Jewelled Bird Quilt.( shall I leave then basic or should I add eyes and...

**** Magic; Magic; Magic! **** Last night I was lucky to be court side as Waikato / BOP " MAGIC " , beat the Melbourne VIX...

Friends and family have been spoiling me today. Phone calls, parcels, cards. Wow! R got me ( the same gift I am sending to...

A little new Vireya I planted By the driveway is flowering for the first time. It had so many heavy blooms hanging down for it's little...

1. Make ties ( 2) and neck strap - With the 3.5" strips of F2. ( you may do this by folding longways right sides together...