PROGRESS!

A REVEAL.

My FPP star quilt.

This is the quilt I've been trying to get to the pieced top stage and now all I need to do is add a border, although the original didn't have one.  The pattern was in a magazine called Quilts with Style (now discontinued) and ran over 6 issues in 2006.  Janette and I started ours, we think, sometime in 2008, so definitely what you would call a long term project.  Once I've worked out a border, I'll tell a bit about why it took me so long.

WORKS IN PROGRESS!

The Garden, which will always be a work in progress.

The two hellebores I inherited with this garden, which still amazes me, as it basically filled with so-called "low maintenance" planting.  I've always loved hellebores and these two are beauties.  I have two more in pots which I brought with me awaiting planting.

Along the back fence which shows what I meant in the last caption.  12 pittosporums, lomandras, (spiky things) and seaside daisy (erigeron), which spreads and self seeds in gardens here in Oz and just a jolly nuisance.  This bed will eventually be planted with some lovely small trees and shrubs with perennials, bulbs and annuals in front. 

Looking toward the shed where hubby has his woodworking gear setup and we store garden tools.  As you can see more of the yukky stuff, but on the right in the photo is an olive tree (we don't like olives), but there is a new nest that the magpies have built, so this tree will definitely being staying, as I love our birdlife.

The first rose to be planted in the garden.  There are no roses at all here and that just won't do.  This one is Julia's Rose, which I've had in most of my recent gardens.  We think there are two blueberry bushes behind it,  I'll have to wait and see.

Behind the little shed is this area, where we found the potatoes and which I'll use for now as the veg bed, until we see how much shade that tree casts.  The parsley was already there and I've just put in a rhubarb plant (a must).  You may have to click to enlarge to see it.

We also planted a magnolia, but the photo has disappeared, so I'll have to take another one and post again sometime.  More garden photos will hopefully be popping up often as the weather improves.  It was lovely spending time in the garden yesterday and finding a couple more spuds when I was digging over the above bed.

TWO MORE WIP's.
No. 1.
I'm still working on my giant granny rug, though not as much done as I would have liked, but am also handsewing a binding to a quilt.  Have to work on these alternately as the chillblains are still hanging around.

Rug

No. 2.

Poor old Brute.

On my first ever blog post in January 2013, I showed our beloved Morris Minor.  Over the years she has been on the road, she's taken us to many places in Australia as part of the Morris Minor Touring Club, towing for a while our small camper trailer, on local club outings, then as hubby's transport to work for the last ten years before he retired.  Now she really does need some extra TLC.  We acquired her in 1991 when we saw her in a blackberry patch.  The local farmer said if we could get her out, she was ours.  Hubby and the two boys managed to wangle her out and she's been with us ever since.  Originally a panel van, but as the back was just completely rusted away, she became a ute (pickup), was registered in 1992 and went on her first trip that year to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.  Hubby did all the work himself, but she doesn't have her original engine, has had the cab extended a little as he's quite tall (6'3") lovely timber boards on the back and runs on both gas and petrol.  OK, for those who are new to following, I'll pop on the better photo too.

OK, enough for now, so I can post this and get to a few other things as the sun is shining after a few brief showers this morning.
Hope all had a great weekend and take care.
Susan.