Monday, 10 September 2007

Life's a beach

On Saturday I got in the car and DS1 told me he'd like to go to the beach. I love the beach...
it's only about an hour away. Not a beach like I know from Cape Town, but sand and water nonetheless.
We messed about in the sand and when I washed my hands in the water, someone discovered that water and sand made MUD! He ran around like a loony shouting "MUD, MUD, MUD!"

He was so happy, it was lovely. We will go again!

Here are few things I've been working on. A top for Linus...

My September, October & November BlockBuddySwaps Maple leaves...

And my September Blockbuddy's "Focus Fabric" block (Waterwheel Variation it's called)...

The fabric is from Donna's shop and is called Forest Fire Batik (if I recall correctly). Each month we're making a Quilterscache block using a bit of focus fabric somewhere.

I'm also working on something with my bonus triangles from Bonnie's Pineapple Blossom which I did in butterfly prints. More on that later...

6 comments:

Elsie Montgomery said...

I really like the fabric you selected for "Waterwheel Variation" --- picking up the blue and blue-purple from the batik makes both of them dance. Being Canadian, those Maple leaves caught my eye too!

happy quilting!

YankeeQuilter said...

The beach looks wonderful! I grew up near the coast and miss being able to jump over whenever. The maple leaves look great...can you believe it is almost time for the leaves to change color!!! Where did this past year go!!

Vicki W said...

What a cute little beach bug! I love your maple leaf blocks - great colors!

Kate North said...

it's true - no one can truly appreciate mud in the same way as a small boy...

Unknown said...

Your son is so cute. I can remember playing with mud, great stuff.

Unknown said...

Those maple leaves look wonderful in purple - you just get so used to seeing them in autumn colours - now you've got me thinking........