I picked up lots of beautiful feathers. And we all had a great time.
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Travel (b)log
We've been away for two and a half months and I've not really shown anything touristy, but today we went to Blue Hills Bird Farm between Knysna and Plett. My favourite were the Toucans (all the way from Bolivia).
I picked up lots of beautiful feathers. And we all had a great time.
I picked up lots of beautiful feathers. And we all had a great time.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
'Hearts (a-finally) a-flutter'
I have finally managed to make my BQL bag for February.
I was getting worried as I have no access to a printer and still only intermittent internet access. But in the end a male friend of ours kindly printed it out and handed it over with a very bewildered look on his face LOL. It was a great pattern and I was quite pleased with how it turned out. So was mother as it has been swiftly claimed as her knitting bag!
On the home front... DS1 was sent home from school with a temperature yesterday.
He seems better now, but I'll keep him home this week as he just wants to spend time with his Grandmas anyway.
And DS2 is running me ragged!
I was getting worried as I have no access to a printer and still only intermittent internet access. But in the end a male friend of ours kindly printed it out and handed it over with a very bewildered look on his face LOL. It was a great pattern and I was quite pleased with how it turned out. So was mother as it has been swiftly claimed as her knitting bag!
On the home front... DS1 was sent home from school with a temperature yesterday.
He seems better now, but I'll keep him home this week as he just wants to spend time with his Grandmas anyway.
And DS2 is running me ragged!
Thursday, 21 February 2008
The swing of things
I have not been posting much as you may have noticed. 'Crazy' Grandma and 'Grumps' have arrived safely from the UK so we drove down to Cape Town to meet them.
Then we spent a few wonderful days in Franschhoek eating lots of yummy food at lots of different restaurants. The highlight being lunch at La Petite Ferme restaurant with stunning views over the Franschhoek valley.
The lowlight being crickets jumping on the dinner table at another not to be named restaurant!
As always we visited the Aquarium while in Cape Town,
the boys just love it and the sharks don't really mind that we're there!
I have been working on squaring up the monster with the fabrics that we bought at The Quilting Bug.
DH has informed me in no uncertain terms that he does NOT like this quilt. Mom if you're reading this, sorry, but there you go. I will not be discouraged and will try and finish the darn thing LOL.
This is not my colour scheme, but I find it so interesting and a challenge to get it done (Never mind all my UFO's back in England!!!)
I have also been working on my rose hexagon scrappy quilt.
A week or so back I visited a shop in George called Quilttalk (can't find a website) and bought a few small pieces of rose fabric which are already incorporated. If anybody reading this woud like to swap rose fabric for African fabric, please email me (sewkalico at yahoo dot co dot uk) or leave a comment. 4" squares or larger are what I'm looking for and I can swap Shwe-Shwe fabric or anything African...
As I am suddenly able to upload photos, here are some of the boys for my family and friends (who don't sew, but read this blog when they can bear it LOL)
This one for Aunty Jane....
Then we spent a few wonderful days in Franschhoek eating lots of yummy food at lots of different restaurants. The highlight being lunch at La Petite Ferme restaurant with stunning views over the Franschhoek valley.
The lowlight being crickets jumping on the dinner table at another not to be named restaurant!As always we visited the Aquarium while in Cape Town,
the boys just love it and the sharks don't really mind that we're there!I have been working on squaring up the monster with the fabrics that we bought at The Quilting Bug.
DH has informed me in no uncertain terms that he does NOT like this quilt. Mom if you're reading this, sorry, but there you go. I will not be discouraged and will try and finish the darn thing LOL.
This is not my colour scheme, but I find it so interesting and a challenge to get it done (Never mind all my UFO's back in England!!!)
I have also been working on my rose hexagon scrappy quilt.
A week or so back I visited a shop in George called Quilttalk (can't find a website) and bought a few small pieces of rose fabric which are already incorporated. If anybody reading this woud like to swap rose fabric for African fabric, please email me (sewkalico at yahoo dot co dot uk) or leave a comment. 4" squares or larger are what I'm looking for and I can swap Shwe-Shwe fabric or anything African...
As I am suddenly able to upload photos, here are some of the boys for my family and friends (who don't sew, but read this blog when they can bear it LOL)
This one for Aunty Jane....
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Where to start? What to finish!
It's been such a long time since my last post!! I rarely get to use the internet and so reading blogs is almost impossible. Writing my own blog a rarity, but as we somehow managed to get an intermittent connection here I thought I'd seize the opportunity to show you all a few pics of WIP's or at least my MIP (monster in progress!) My mother started this quilt at least 22 years ago, probably more. It's English paper-pieced and should ultimately measure 3.3metres square!
Last year I dug it out of a cupboard and said 'let's finish it', Mother groaned a lot, but it is now ready to be squared up. As Mom doesn't want to do anymore sewing on it, I sew and she tacks/bastes the fabric to the papers. Several needed to be cut as 3 of the 8 parts were incomplete. Some of the fabrics were short so we bamboozled and pieced scraps and the 8 parts are now done. I have done some drawings and calculations (don't ask, they may be wrong) and I have a squaring up theory. I plan to use a gradation of greens to kind of pull it all together. I'm also going to use rather large setting squares to get my straight lines and to save making almost a whole new quilt with all the bits we'd otherwise need.
We found the cutest quilt shop. Jack (DS1) loves it too as it's sort of detached from the owner's house and as the owner has a young daughter there is a swing and jungle gym in the garden. I have been informed that this is a 'nice shop Mummy'. Fabric shopping at leisure with DS1 in the garden was the business at the Quilting Bug which is a relief as I may have to visit again soon. I think I a bit short on one of the greens.
I had hoped to show more pictures, but after an hour of trying, I admit defeat and this one will have to do. We had a week or so in Cape Town with 3 visits to the Aquarium in that short time. The kids love it! So if you're reading this and had hoped for kiddi pics hopefully next time :O) And if your reading this and are only interested in quilting, count your lucky stars LOL. Speaking of stars, anyone know what an 8 pointed star calls itself?
Last year I dug it out of a cupboard and said 'let's finish it', Mother groaned a lot, but it is now ready to be squared up. As Mom doesn't want to do anymore sewing on it, I sew and she tacks/bastes the fabric to the papers. Several needed to be cut as 3 of the 8 parts were incomplete. Some of the fabrics were short so we bamboozled and pieced scraps and the 8 parts are now done. I have done some drawings and calculations (don't ask, they may be wrong) and I have a squaring up theory. I plan to use a gradation of greens to kind of pull it all together. I'm also going to use rather large setting squares to get my straight lines and to save making almost a whole new quilt with all the bits we'd otherwise need.
We found the cutest quilt shop. Jack (DS1) loves it too as it's sort of detached from the owner's house and as the owner has a young daughter there is a swing and jungle gym in the garden. I have been informed that this is a 'nice shop Mummy'. Fabric shopping at leisure with DS1 in the garden was the business at the Quilting Bug which is a relief as I may have to visit again soon. I think I a bit short on one of the greens.
I had hoped to show more pictures, but after an hour of trying, I admit defeat and this one will have to do. We had a week or so in Cape Town with 3 visits to the Aquarium in that short time. The kids love it! So if you're reading this and had hoped for kiddi pics hopefully next time :O) And if your reading this and are only interested in quilting, count your lucky stars LOL. Speaking of stars, anyone know what an 8 pointed star calls itself?
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