Flower Meadow - A Quilty Finish♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies♡ A springtime welcome to my little place. Did I say a springtime welcome?? Well.....Lady Spring arrived, albeit  tentatively, painting the landscape with  a host of those happy rays of sunshine, the daffodils; but of course Old Man Winter wasn't going to leave without a lot of huff and puff...and bluster. He wasn't going to leave my little corner of the world for other lands, without pulling out all tricks and putting on quite the show. This little island at the bottom of the world quivered and quaked under his might and power this past week.  Electricity outages for days on end, thunderous skies lashing us mere mortals with torrential rain and gale force winds; uprooting trees, floods, damaging many a house etc etc. Why, the whole of Tassie was in blackness......and I think, sadly, some still are. As for the garden here at my little place....oh dear.... let's just say, it's one helluva mess.

So, sitting day after day in front of the open fire, with a gazillion candles casting a lovely glow everywhere, diminishing the darkness; and tea percolating in a billy among the flames, I stitched the finishing stitches to my Flower Meadow quilt. Yes indeedy, while Old Man Winter carried on a treat, swaggering and ranting outside my picture windows, I finished my Flower Meadow  pretty.

Flower Meadow imaginings began in January 2023 when the roses and dahlias were sashaying in the summer sun, with me just desiring to play with fabrics; and play with EPP hexies. No thinking; just playing. After all, playing with hexies is my happy place. A mosaic of hexie flowers randomly growing together in an effusion of colour and pattern in a quilt sounded like the most wonderful of ideas.

My fabric stash is overflowing with florals so what better way to display the beauty of these floralicious delights than all together in a quilt; with flower hexies sashaying together in a flower meadow. So many of the hexies were fussy cut and I must say my Flower Meadow  is very pleasing to my eyes. I love the movement of colour and pattern in this quilt.  Swathes of colour move throughout the quilt in a harmonious and eye pleasing way. Well, it is to my eyes. =)  Swathes of happy, harmonious colour exactly as one would see in a natural flower meadow♡

I hand quilted around each hexie flower and also the centre hexie of each flower. My ethos of 'KISS' hand quilting once again because as you know I like my quilting to be 'keep it simple stupid'. =) The quilting around the green border is in a stepped design and the binding is the backing fabric which is a pretty, darker green with ditsy flowers flourishing all over. Another pretty quilt completely hand stitched from 'go to whoa'.......just the way I like my quilts to be♡

Sending you sprinkles of sunshiny, springtime love, on this rather, shall we say, rainy and winter-like Sunday. =) Perhaps Lady Spring will come out from her hidey hole and cast her sunshiny smile upon me and this little island on which I live, this coming week. Fingers crossed she does. Thank you so much for stopping by my little place. I know it's been a while. =) Have a wonderful day, lovely lovelies♡

Until the next time......

Linking this week to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching 

A quick hello........then au revoir

Hello lovely lovelies♡ A quick hello from my cosy parlour, on this chilly and rainy Tassie afternoon. We've had old friends visit our little home over the last little while. Hence, I've been absent for a wee bit. Why they wanted to experience a Tassie mid-winter, I'll never know; but they did! I suppose some will fly over land and sea and brave the harshest of weather conditions to spend time with me and My Pete. Of course, there are some who would fly over continents and oceans in the opposite direction just to get away from me. But, there you go. =) Time spent with our dear friends was wonderful of course. We seemed to have spent a lot of time sitting in front of the fire chatting, while Old Man Winter and Jack Frost did their dastardly deeds outside the picture windows. We chatted about many a topic......God, politics (yikes!!) American Christian Nationalism (a 'shake-one's-head-in-complete-befuddlement', resounding YIKES!!!!), forever friendships, children, grandbabies, books, why living in Australia is well, good......the whole gamut of subjects really; washing it all down with cuppa after cuppa in pretty tea cups, of course.

Oh my giddy aunt it's been freezing here. Morning after morning of ice sheathed landscapes.......frozen water pipes etc etc. Why, one could've ice skated on the frozen driveway if one had a pair of those vintage ice skates from days of old. But as there isn't a pair of those vintage pretties in my vintage-filled home, I didn't. Such a pity, really. But then, I never could remain upright skating on ice. The sight of my unattractive cankles bulging out of a pair of vintage skates with me trying to manoeuvre toe jumps, spins....the Axel, well.......utterly cringeworthy. Just not a pretty sight.

 Oh....and while I'm on the subject of cringeworthy, what about the cringefest that is the RNC, that went down this week!! With my vomit bucket close by I watched snippets of sycophants sucking up to the Supreme Court enabled, wannabe 'king'. Oh my goodness, I wonder how you, my American friends, stomach it all??!! Twilight zone-ish, really. One really couldn't make this stuff up!!

But lets leave the circus that is American (Republican) politics well........in the circus tent and fasten the entrance flaps of the Big Top so that all the buffoonery remains inside, unable to escape. The Liar of all liars and his clown alley, the pratfall and shudder of clowns    go on and on and on, regurgitating the same  unhinged nonsense over and over. It's the same ol' same ol'.  Until he.....they......come up with something that looks like adulting.....then, and only then may those entrance flaps be flung open. But.....let us, you and me, chat about other things, shall we?? Books?? Sewing?? Crochet?? Slow Stitching Sunday?? Even the weather?? Any subject is more aggreeable than what went down this week in the country that is regarded 'Leader of the Free World'!

Let me chat about crochet as to tell the truth, I haven't participated in creative pursuits of late. I'm crocheting a top, dancing in gelato-inspired, yummy colours which sing Spring, Spring, Spring ♪♬♪ I'm using Patons 4ply merino wool and I must say it's lovely and soft; perfect for a Tassie spring. Granny squares. Again. Ho-hum. But not ho-hum  to me, as I love granny squares. =) Oh, how I love to sashay around the Tassie countryside in a crochet, granny square pretty♡

As I intimated in the heading, a very quick hello and now au revoir. Pete and I are off for a little holiday to warmer climes to celebrate a very auspicious first birthday. My sweet Riley turns one next week. How amazing!! And...where oh where did those twelve months go?!!! From being born so, so tiny at eleven weeks premi to now, a healthy happy one year old......well ......I'm just so thankful we all are able to celebrate the miracle which is our sweet Riley. So au revoir lovely lovelies. I don't know when I will return to my little place here in blog land. Perhaps when Lady Spring floats in, heavy laden with arms overflowing with daffodils, tulips, irises, lilacs, granny bonnets, forget-me-nots.........♡ I am beside myself with great joy just dreaming about the miracle which is Spring!! All those heady fragrances and colours dancing on a gentle, spring breeze♡ Such bliss♡

From Sarah Lizzie's 'tis au revoir for now♡ Enjoy a wonderful day♡ 

Woolly Goodness ♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies♡ A lovely, Sunday morning, welcome to my little place, where woolly goodness abounds♡

This week I crocheted my woolly pretty each day and all of a sudden, before me is a finished, crochet woolly. I'm besides myself with great joy! =) 

A jumper dancing with granny squares of colour, colour, and then some. Last week I was in the process of joining all the granny squares together with the join-as-you-go method, front and back; which left the sleeves to be made. I also crocheted a scallop border along the hem and neckline. The sleeves are clusters of double crochet in the main scuba blue colour with pops of confetti-like colour tumbling towards the edge. Love all these pops of colour. Happy little mosaics of happiness.

This is my fifth garment that I've crocheted and can say that I've fine-tuned little elements since I first began to skip along the woolly crochet path. I have found with learning to crochet and then fashioning cardies, and now a jumper;  quite a bit of problem solving happened along the way. But this is always the case when one experiments, makes it up as one goes along, and happily plays. We creatives always seem to be problem solving; are we not??

Gotta love a swan, gliding gracefully among tangled, loop-de-loopying woollyness ♡

Another crochet woolly to keep me warm these chilly, wintry days.  I've been wearing all my crochet woollies a lot this last little while. Will I fashion another?? You betcha! I'm thinking a  crochet pretty in blues, pinks, mint greens and white for spring would be rather nice.  But for now, a little break from crochet. For Slow Sunday Stitching later this evening I'll be hand quilting my Crazy Flowers quilt. I have to fly as I'll be out and about all day. Have a wonderfully colourful day, lovely lovelies♡

Until the next time......