Progress

I started to make one block for the Pat Sloan Stay at Home April 2020 Quilt along, but them when you are making snowball blocks it is good to chain piece, so I ended up making four.

I am happy with how these look, still need to decide if I am putting in sashings or not.

Yesterday I got out this sadly neglected project and made the Churn Dash block (yes I am on a Churn Dash roll) I have now made 20 blocks for this project  only 120 to go!!!

I was looking at blogs this morning and saw this recipe for Chewy Fruit Slice here at the Quilting Orchardist, so I thought I would give it a try. Hubby was heading off to the chemist so I asked him to get some dried apricots and gluten free plain flour. I was not thinking clearly was I!! Of course there was no flour in the supermarket, so the slice has a mix of plain gf flour, self raising gf flour and a little baking powder to try and keep everything happening as it should. It is in the oven at the moment and so far is looking good.

I had a wander down the back yard and yes there are more figs, some are splitting, I guess because of the rain we had yesterday. Hubby came home with jam sugar so back into production we go, probably the last lot as I have run out of jars.

I have done a little of the puzzle

Last night as I had finished my secret stitching project, I finished off a star,

and sewed the diamonds together to make stars.Sorry blogger decided to turn the photo around.

Tonight is Friday Night with Friends where we have a virtual sew along with our hostess Cheryll,

you can join and sign up here.

PS. The slice is out of the oven and cooling, yum!!

Just waiting for it to cool so I can have a taste.

Happy stitching.

Today

I have more oomph than I had for the last couple of days,  I have had a wander around the back yard a few times, done some sewing and some cutting, quite a lot for me!

Ondrea very kindly sent me these books to read, I am enjoying the first one already.

The figs are ripening beautifully

I saw this butterfly in the back yard, but was not quick enough to get it with open wings.

Yesterdays bounty from the garden, another 2 big jars of fig and ginger jam

The rainbow lorikeets have moved into the fig tree

Caught this very pretty butterfly

Ingrid and I both have the Anthology book and have challenged each other to make a block a week. this is the first block cut and ready to sew

as I was cutting I thought I would do a second

# 1 finished, slightly wonky,

#2 finished, these blocks finish at 4 x 5 inches

Pat Sloan has an April challenge, The Stay at home Quilt Along,  happening at her facebook page and the challenge is to make a snowball block each day for the month of April. By the end of the month you have a quilt top. Not bad I thought, could be manageable. Pat has suggested using happy fabrics, fabric that makes you smile. I am using fabric I have been given to make an oncology quilt. I think I will use gray sashings, still thinking on that.

I am off now to draw a pencil line on the back of the yellow squares and get today's block sewn.

Happy sewing.

This and that

Yesterday I decided to make another EPP carry bag with the wonderful fabric Susan sent me.

chowchows on the outside

and on the inside. Lots of bags to hold the fabric and 

I got to the bottom of the box of toilet paper and found the most important roll!!

Down in the garden the birds/fruit bats/possums have been at the figs

munching away at the nearly ripe ones

The laundry washing bags are protecting some of the nearly ripe fruit. This afternoon Ingrid and I went out and picked a bowl full of nearly ready figs, I can see some fig and ginger jam coming soon.

The tram lady is finally on the wall.

I have done the quilting I am going to do on this quilt, next to trim the blue edges off and maybe use that for the binding. We shall see.

Happy stitching.

My Corner of the World

I am linking up Betty to show my little corner of the world, as I have not been anywhere I went out into the garden and took some photos there

These Naked Ladies have sprung up and produced flowers in what seems like a few days

The fig tree is laden with fruit, I hope we get a few this year, I have to devise a way to cover some from the parrots, possums and fruit bats.

Something very special is happening, we were left this hoya plant when we moved into this house, the previous owners said it was a weak plant and we could throw it out if we didn't want it. Well it got some more potting mix, some water and worm wee and it is now having flowers!

A bit hard to see but here are flowers coming all the way up the plant. Very happy with that.

The plum fruit had rotten looking spots a few weeks ago and I thought we had lost the lot, but when I looked today there were ripe fruit the birds had not yet found, so they came inside with me. Will go and check again tomorrow.

You can see where others have been over at Photographing New Zealand where others have linked up.