Odds and ends

We now have wheels. It’s a small 4WD. It’s also an automatic as that is one less thing for me to worry about when driving. Having a 4WD is pretty much essential given the state of the roads in Port Moresby. This picture is taken in front of our temporary accommodation (which we are still [...]

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Remiss

This post should have been posted weeks ago… In July, Cape Town hosted an International Quilting festival. One of my blog readers let me know that she was coming from Australia to attend the festival and so we made plans to meet up. Jenny arrived with some Sanitarium Marmite (the recipe is different from the [...]

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Some finishes, a work in progress and stash enhancement

When we first moved to South Africa we lived in a gated community and our next-door neighbours were a very lovely  couple. One day P visited while I had a quilt in progress spread out on the floor. A few days later she turned up with a garbage bag full of scraps from her father’s [...]

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Ahem – anyone still here?

So, I figure when blogging friends start emailing to ask if I’m OK it’s probably time to update the blog. I’m struggling to find a balance between work and blogging and life in general. The garden has been good to us this summer. The corn was really tasty, we had lots of zucchinis until the [...]

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Talented People

I’m lucky to have met some very talented people here in South Africa. One of the most talented and prolific quilters I know is my friend F. An embarrassingly long time ago she gifted me with some little squares. The centre of the logcabin block was 1 inch cut. Pause to consider the implications here…The [...]

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Hello there

World Cup Soccer is in full swing here in South Africa at the moment.  We live in the Cape Winelands (about 40 minutes from Cape Town’s centre) and even here the sellers at the intersections are doing a roaring trade in flags and side mirror cozies. We bought a small Australian flag and gave it [...]

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Just needs borders

…and hand quilting. But we won’t mention that. I started this quilt in February. I’m a slow quilter I finished it up on Friday. Now I just need to square it up, add borders, and then hand quilt it. I found what I think is the perfect border fabric today. I’m very pleased with how [...]

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Duh!

So, I haven’t been posting because the cord to my digital camera died and I needed to buy a new one. Then Gorgeous Man pointed out that he had a brand new digital camera complete with cord sitting in his wardrobe (I got the spinning wheel, he got a camera – that’s Christmas and Birthdays [...]

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Show and tell time

I’ve been having great fun with my new ball winder. My handspun looks totally professional all balled up, well at least I think it does. I was sorting out my scrap (shoe)box this week (thanks to a certain Gorgeous Girl who decided to help Mummy by emptying it on the floor) and discovered a UFO [...]

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This and that

I went to my craft group, the Free Radicals, yesterday. This month it was my turn to receive quilt blocks. There are still a few to come in, but these are the blocks I received. Pretty. I gave each person a fish square to use either as inspiration or in the block. Once I receive [...]

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