Quiltingorchardist

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...

Yesterday we had one of those it could have been so much worse situations. At this time of the year there are lots of bees around here nat...

These freshly picked and washed ( still wet ) oranges drying on a purple towel made me think...I' ve not used that colour combination in...

Thimbleanna your right; it's because I love blogging and talking with all you like minded ladies! Some successful date scones were made...

Thank you all for your advice regarding scones - I will keep trying to improve and will report back. Meanwhile I made some more bread which ...

Too many showers of rain! I had great plans of things to do in the garden today but even taking these few photos I got very wet. So I know w...

On the 1st of October I showed a photo of how tall our Broad beans  ( faba beans in some parts of the world ) had grown. We have been eating...

We drove home from South Taranaki by the West Coast route.The weather improved and warmed as we progressed northward. Well trimmed pine tr...

After a journey of more than 1100 kilometres we are back, to warmer BOP. On Thursday we traveled down through the middle of the North Island...

New Zealand is experiencing a very cold patch of weather. It is Spring here but suddenly Winter weather returns. In some places there is sno...

My rainbow coloured quilt bag is finished but is very much larger than I expected. This shows the gathered in end with cord and toggles to...

Yesterday I took Inky the cat's cushion I had finished to Club for Show and Tell. Unfortunately Helen who started the project wasn't...

I'm between ( not betweens they're needles ) big projects. I have finished lots of small things.( many for club... all the Ruel Foun...

I t's the weekend. Yesterday lots of cleaning got done...sheds, cobblestones then windows with both of us working at it we got so much d...

* Jennifer thanks for your offer. I have completed the Card Trick Block to my satisfaction ( but would be interested if your book tells of a...

 Firstly some answers to comments. * Meg I will take a photo of those same buds when the Firewheel tree flowers come out. * Molly I will s...