Overslept this morning by an hour! Normally I am first up to get things moving in the house (I nearly said to stoke the stove and start the fire - but we have moved on since those days) LOL
Got my Farm Story's first BOM (the Piggies) out last night and did the copying onto the Steam-to-Seam paper but the pieces of the trough was too wide for my paper and copied it onto the Visa-Fix - but was not too happy with that medium. Wanted to tape two pieces together but used the V-F. After consulting with Saddle at work this morning, she also suggested using two pieces to create the one piece - so this evening I will go and do those few pieces over and then fix it to the fabric.
I have not had time to go and replenish my two thread colours to finish the autumn leave applique for the Log Cabin quilt. Maybe this afternoon after work - fingers crossed!
Sunshine outside! Yip, it is a beautiful day here in Hobart. Best place to live in - no doubt about that! Sorry, no pics today.
Often, when driving to work, the morning scenes are absolutely stunning - especially when Mt Wellington has a petticoat on or the mist hangs low and you can only see the crest with this white woolly cravat covering the bottom half! OR When there is absolutely no wind on the Derwent and the reflections are miror-perfect?How do you pull over whilst in morning traffic - especially when there is NO place to pull over!!? By the time one can pull over, the moment has passed and the scene changed. But I keep looking!
Spoke to my youngest daughter last night; ended up with her getting upset about my comments and concerns. I suppose now it will be a while before she wants to talk to me again. I am seriously getting too old for this type of nonsense! If only she realised that I dearly love her, care for her and the family's wellbeing and that they need to take responsibility for their actions and not blame everyone from the neighbour's cat to their boa constrictor for their decisions! Damn, this is very tiring - no wonder I overslept this morning!
Fingers' crossed for a better tomorrow......
Warm regards
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Wow, I feel like a newbie at blogging - been quite a while since I last posted! Hopefully the lull is behind me now. Feels like the floodgates are about to open ................
On the journey of working towards completing my Log Cabin quilt, I have been side-tracked by oh, just so many other pretty, pretty pieces of fabric, BOM's and other wall quilts. It is just not so fair to have so many projects up for grabs and just so little time! I need to win the Lotto big time so that I can cut down on working for a living and really start living! Wow, just think, I can work, say, three days a week, maybe two, depending on the winnings - on the other days, I can get up, do a quick touch-here-touch-there house clean, take my puppy for a nice long walk, come back to a slow breakfast and then elevate to the sewing machine and quilting! On some days I can go fabric hunting - not necessarily to buy - but just to be up to date with what is available (you never know ......). I can visit quilting friends and we can work on projects together. Nice thing about this is that it is nice to have good company when you quilt; somebody that understand you even when nobody is saying a word - spending the whole day working, perhaps in silence, could still come down to having a meaningful 'conversation'. I know one such person. My dear friend, Saddle (my nickname for her).
I would get a long-arm quilter so that we can do our own quilting and become experts at this; attend classes; go on retreats .... yeah, that could work for me!
But I better get back from these dizzy height that have my head in the clouds, back to reality .... damn!
On the up side, I have a number of excellent projects that I am really looking forward to getting stuck into. This week I received block one of my Twilight Gardens. This BOM is from Faeries in my Garden and has a lot of embroidery involved. It looks extremely interesting.
This evening I took the dust-cover off my Elna, threaded her up and continued with the autumn leaves' applique. Can finish the last three sets tomorrow evening - another lot of blocks closer to finishing the Log Cabin quilt! Saddle made a passing comment of: "uh ho ... here comes a UFO ..." or something in that line. Scared the living daylights out of me, she did!! Got to prove her wrong (fingers crossed!!).
Fingers crossed - may my numbers be the winning Lotto numbers this week ... pleeeeez!
Warm regards
