The Oreti estuary at Invercargill, photo taken by Phil when he was down there towards the end of the filming of Pete's Dragon; he made the comment on Instagram that he thanked the scout group for painting it this beautiful shade of red!
There has been some progress on the quilting front - sort of two steps forward and three back! but I'll not be discouraged! I finished quilting the top I showed in my post on March 1st [I haven't worked out yet how to make a link to a single post...] and have put on the binding, now it needs hand stitching and with a couple of meetings coming up, that shouldn't be a problem.
I got a bit carried away and decided to take another off the pile -
these are not simply flimsies, they have backing folded up with them - except for the orange and green back which should be orientated sideways to show off the picture so it's put aside for a while.... I took the other quilt from the top of the pile nearest the camera, spent a very pleasant time pinning it while watching NCIS [starting from series 1!], then did one line of machine quilting - and spent a couple of hours unpicking it.
I am even contemplating hand quilting it........watch this space!
Quilting at the prison has been progressing well, I took out this quilt to get some matching blue thread for the quilting -
The panels were donated but Persephone [do I need to say that's not her real name?] has chosen well, and done some very neat piecing to complete the top. She is machine quilting and will then hand quilt the actual panels. I was delivering more Pet Pads to the SPCA shop in Petone so asked one of the assistants to hold up the quilt for the photo.
Pet Pad number???
It's a sort of tradition that after teaching at Arohata we go along to Porirua to have lunch at Kaizen the coffee shop in the Pataka complex. Last week we then visited Spotlight to buy some vliesoflex, and I was most pleasantly surprised when a fellow quilter stepped up and offered to buy it for us! I was most happy to accept on behalf of the Shut in Stitchers - quilters are so generous in their support; I am most grateful.
I saw some interesting fabric on one of the stands -
It was actually the lower fabric that caught my eye [repeat after me, I do not need any more fabric!] and then I saw the companion piece - interesting.........
Then there was this -
What about using it as the border of a quilt? Do you think anyone would believe they were real?
Time for another photograph - taken at, I think, Worser Bay - gorgeous name that, tradition has it that a resident used to answer that when asked about the weather...........
This was taken by Phil on his way to the airport in Wellington, early one morning. Love those colours, and see, Wellington isn't always windy!
At a recent Capital Quilters' meeting, I was very taken by the block of the month - a variation on an old pattern but get these great fabrics!
Some very interesting jars!
A bird in a cage? love the spider webs!
I'll leave you with the quote from Herbert Henry Asquith, "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
back to the estuary and this photo taken by Phil,
thanks for visiting
June
2 comments:
Lovely photo's! Well done Phil.......keep em coming! You have been busy, I like your comment that your quilts are not flimsys because you have backing folded up with them!! Seems to me you are generous helping out in the community in many ways.
Great idea to fold the top, and backing all ready for the next step. Generous people appear in so many places, and it doesn't have to be cash or a financial donation in a bank account to be so gracefully accepted. Phil, superb photos.
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