Every morning this week we’ve woken to this foggy outlook, right up until 9am….
…which means the days are stinking hot…..33 – 34 degrees celsius on average. Today was quite mild….it only got to 32 degrees and it was noticably different, believe it or not!!! I was talking with
Dawn the other day and her top temperature was 17 degrees for the day in Adelaide……so hard to believe we live in the same country!!!! The spiders have taken to getting busy during the night and had we not had the fog and mist, I probably wouldn’t have noticed this web on my windscreen wiper….
….amazing critters aren’t they!? We have one busy guy who builds his web right between the garden and the bush outside our front door….I haven’t been able to get a photo as he’s disassembled it by morning but I notice it’s rebuilt each night as I take Ralph for his last ‘pitstop’ for the night!
Well, I’m not the kinda girl to break a promise and I invited you all for scones and tea so here they are, light and fluffy, fresh from the oven……amazing what you can do with flour, butter and milk!!!…
We had to wait just a bit for them to cool before we could add the homemade strawberry jam and cream but here they are…..hope you enjoy them!!!!……(pity we didn’t have taste-vision….I don’t think licking the screen has the same effect though!! LOL)
This week, I was working on preparing a project with our year 7 students….each year the year 7’s complete a creative project to leave to the school in remembrance of them. We’ve made mosaics, painted school murals, built gardens, but this year, we’re making a quilt to hang in our new library/resource centre. The design will have a stitched block between a nine-patch, alternating on each line. The students are stitching the blocks with their names, so they will never be forgotten, in the school colours of red and blue, and the nine patches will be in varying tones of red. I’ve prepared the blocks here for stitching before I took them to school to work with the kids….need I say, they were very excited…even the boys, but you probably remember that from when I stitched with them
here.
I’ve also been working on this set of placemats…..well, you can only see one, because the others have still got to be bound….but they are all quilted and ready to go!!!
This is the back of this one….each has a different backing fabric and I decided to quilt them in the ditch and then using parallel lines around the edge. I’ll have to finish them off and post them onto the ‘
Sew It’s Finished” blog as they were in my list of UFO’s for the year….and it’s only taken me till October!!!! LOL Time to spare, time to spare!!!!! hehehe
Tomorrow, I’m off on a bus trip with some ladies from our quilt group to
Cardwell, about 4 hours north of here. The quilting ladies from Cardwell are having a ‘Show and Tell’ so it should be loads of fun….remember they had a terrible time earlier this year with
Cyclone Yasi which nearly wiped them off the planet! Well these ladies have been working like trojans, getting themselves back together to put on a ‘show’ for us so we’re off to show our support. I must remember my camera so I can share when I get home! Hope you’ve got a wonderfully crafty weekend planned too. Sugary hugs XOX Wendy :O)
to make a few wonky scrappy log cabin quilt blocks for Michele. 
photo courtesy of Michele @ http://quiltinggallery.com You see, Michele is coordinating quilt blocks to be made to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the US…..I figure, we always have so much help when cyclone season hits our coast, it’s only right to help out others whenever we can. Michele’s organised the Sandy Quilt Block Drive…. 
and she’s even got a tutorial to show you how to make them HERE I KNOW what a great bunch of guys and gals the blogging/quilting/stitching community is, so here’s a call out to all of you to help Michele as she’s a little short of block makers….you can make as few or as many as you like but you can read more about it HERE……and you will need to register on this link. 
On another note, I managed to watch this from my kitchen window this morning… 
photo courtesy of -WT.mc_id=en_top_stories What an eerie display……Although we live about 500km south of the best viewing place of Cairns in Far North Queensland, where all the journo’s and scientists flocked to get the ‘best’ view, I figured our view was pretty spectacular….and not a cloud in sight!! Apparently not another one in Far North Queensland for more than 200 years, and none in Australia for another 10 so, talk about the right place at the right time!!!! Despite the fact that I broke a bottle of bubbly wine on the kitchen floor soon after….(no, I wasn’t having an early morning snort, nor was I celebrating the solar eclipse….simply getting the milk out for my morning coffee…….true!!!!!), I think viewing this spectacle might have made me a little wonky…… just setting the tone for sewing!!! Sugary hugs xox 
