Quiltingorchardist

Much needed rain and drizzle here today.  So fruit mince pies it is. Everyone  in this family seems to like them better than Christmas cake ...

  The final and largest flowering cherry has been out for weeks but is now getting its leaves and carpeting the ground with pink. As the win...

   I decided to try trianglar buttons as the centres of these mauve flowers. That's  anatomically incorrrect but they are imaginary flow...

 Quite a few times I have meant to put something up here and haven't. Maybe I getting old and lazy or worse slow!  We have had family bi...

Our bright early cherries are now finished and in leaf. The next to flower called Awanui are  coming out nicely. They are in properties all ...

I know for many of you your sewing room is your happy place. For me its my garden ( you would never have guessed ).   I still like to sew bu...

This is the new edging R has put in where we dug out the agapanthus.  It needs more soil fill on both sides.  Along the piece of garden ther...

Since we left the orchard ( 6 years ago now ) I haven't had a bird bath in the garden only water dishes. Now I have. Purchased at a clo...

 When we have so so many  lovely clean skinned lemons sometimes it is best to make them into Lemon Honey ( lemon Spread, Lemon Curd - they a...

 The Librarians of Rue de Picadie by Janet Skeslien Charles. A novel based on the true story of Jesse Carson who joins CARD ( The American C...

  I've been picking these Queen Proteas for the vase on the bench and giving some away.  Yesterday when a high wind warning was forecast...

 For the 3rd time I am knitting  this sleeveless vest for my Grandson.  The simple pattern consists of groups of 7 stitches. Where the 3  - ...