Posted in applique wall hanging, Uncategorized, tagged applique, South Waikato quilt on October 24, 2016| 3 Comments »
Years ago I saved one of my son’s school painting projects from the bin thinking that ‘one day’ I’d use it for something. With some added applique it’s now heading to Rangiura as a wall hanging, show casing some of the flora and fauna found around our local water ways.
Rainbow trout
Little grebe
Posted in modern quilts, Uncategorized, tagged applique, fabric collage, machine applique, machine quilting, pop art, thread painting on October 6, 2016| 3 Comments »
Another quilt for the rest home planned in collaboration with Yvonne. She drew me a fantastic cow and I filled it in with fabric and thread. We’ve put it on top of an old, tired itijeme quilt that had passed it’s best … quilt recycling! I was inspired by a master of collage and thread painting, Sophie Standing, take a look at her stuff on line, it’s amazing.
Posted in gardening, Uncategorized, tagged seed germination on October 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
This year I’ve bought two big plastic containers from the Warehouse and had good success in germinating my seeds in them. For the first week they were well watered then sat inside by the sunny ranch slider with their lids on. Once the seeds were just sprouted they were easy enough to put in a sunny place outside with the lids off or if the day was too rainy the lids stayed on outside getting the light, then brought inside with the lids on overnight.At three weeks I’m happy to have healthy looking seedlings ready to pot on.
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