Colour Therapy

I am just desperate for Spring!! Then being stuck in with these crutches won't feel so grim!

I was looking at some old photos and found these which were taken by my late father-in-law when he and his wife visited us in South Africa...

Hermanus:


Bo-Kaap:


Langebaan:


Bo-Kaap again:
South Africa is so full of colour. (I remember walking home from school, after spending my train fare at the tuckshop, that I used to get called a 'whitey'! LOL)

Hurry up Spring with your colour palette of new life!

Carolina Lily by hand

I have completed one full section by hand of my Carolina Lily project.


The flowers and white sections were English paper-pieced, the binding was made following the instructions (I think I may need another way to do this as I am not finding it so easy this way - this may be due to it being my first time at stems) and the leaves were appliqued over paper (my favourite way). As I will have to remove the papers at some point, it will be no extra bother to remove the papers from the leaves too :-)

I did manage to sit at my sewing machine for about 5 minutes to sew these few binding strips, but it was not fun. My leg is still learning to do normal things and it may take some time before I am running my sewing sweat shop again LOL.

I had the staples removed last week and nearly fainted. I shouldn't have looked, but they had such an interesting gadget to take the staples out that I was riveted for about the first five staples and then nauseous for the last twenty (or goodness knows how many there were!) Edit: there were 36!

I am pretty much set for reds now, with extra special thanks to Kandy, Vicky and Josie who gave me the most amazing amount of fabric that my mother (who doesn't get this fabric thing AT ALL) thinks I should open a shop. Thank you so very much. Now who's got some greens LOL.

Carolina Lily Crazy

I have always wanted to do Marti Mitchell's Carolina Lily quilt pattern. I bought the pattern last year, but have only gotten around to starting it now.


Of course, I couldn't do it as per the instructions. No, I had to make the templates a different size AND I had to do it as an English Paper piecing project. i.e. it will all be done by hand. (I have only managed 2 segments of the first block - each block is made of 4 segments and needs applique too!)


Well, I do have time on my hands and space on my lap...



Between two hospital stays for my leg in 2 years (and a bit done at home here and there), I have finished the applique on 80 die-cut hearts that my friend Donna sent me a few years back...


I have plans to make 3 quilts out of the 80 hearts. They now need machine work, but I am unable to use my sewing machine at present, hence the Carolina Lily's which will take me several years to complete.



I have aslo been sewing spare hexagons into a small panel to try a bag out. So I am keeping those fingers busy.

I'm on the lookout for red on red fabrics for the Lilies. If you have any you'd like to swap please let me know.

In the meantime, they should be taking my staples out this week. As someone who sews, I was highly offended that they stapled me instead of stitching me back together!!