I entertained thoughts about using this as the backing for the wagga...but it would be too busy. Too much happening. I looked in my repository of cream blankets, a suitcase on top of Leah's cupboards (she hates that I have put my stuff in her room) and found not one, but two large blankets, so now I think I'll make it into a quilt after all.
I made it about five or six years ago and then didn't like it, put it away and forgot about it. In some ways I'm still not sure...It's made from all sorts of fabrics: placemats, pillowslips, curtains, aprons, sheets, table cloths and actual fabric that wasn't made into something beforehand (now there's a novelty). It's big too, queen sized. Interesting that I managed to line up the rectangles on this, unlike the wagga.
Here's the very last cherry tomato. I put the cherry tom in a pot on the deck this year. It liked that spot and was very productive, but not too productive. I guess I could have taken excess to Street Harvest but with limited space one cherry is good and then I can grow other veg.
I'm still not used to all this rain. Clare and Ally have never had a pair of gumboots (born at the start of the drought) but now they actually need them, I have resurrected my ancient pair. Especially for going into the chook pen. It badly needs mucking out but it's much easier to do after a long dry spell. It's weird to have mud in our small yard. Where we walk out the back and at the front gate.
The Autumn vine is hops (deciduous). To the left is the feijoa which has monster fruit this year. The rain, again. A bit of achillea (also known as Yarrow) and a convulvulus which I don't know the name of but is a splendid ground cover.
I think the quilt top looks ace. It makes me think of spring.
I'm not used to all the rain either. I can't get a proper system going with the household laundry at all.
Posted by: Stompergirl | May 15, 2011 at 03:19 PM