Those of you who know me in real life (TM) will know that for the past year or two I’ve been muttering about how one day I’m going to suddenly cut off all my hair. Well, one day arrived… Yeah, bit of a drastic change 🙂 (Although in photos it doesn’t really look all that…
My plan to use spare half hours to sew failed the moment the really cold weather set in, because I’d forgotten just how cold the study can get in winter (for some reason to do with the way the hallway bends just before the door to the study, the warmth from the fire, which happily…
Finished making the nine-patches. All 113 of them. I’m slowly getting better at getting all the seams to match up with each other properly (nine-patches are very good practice for that!). I haven’t got as far as actually sewing the blocks together (too much of a social life this weekend, going out to a Toastmasters…
…start something new 🙂 I still haven’t made up my mind about the border for the Three Dudes quilt (which (prompted by Mum asking why it was called Three Dudes, and me realising that the answer was that it was based loosely on a quilt design that was based loosely on a quilt design that…
Having been unsuccessful at figuring out which wire to wiggle to get my second hard drive working again, I gave in and paid a professional to look at it. And it turns out that the reason my wire-wiggling wasn’t working this time was because the hard drive had entirely failed. So, unless I want to…
Amazingly, the sun actually came out over the weekend, and the forecast for Thursday and Friday is now just “drizzle at time”, rather than rain. Drizzle at times I can handle. Drizzle at times means just ducking under the shelter of the marquee for a few minutes until the sun comes out again. Drizzle at…
After doing a pretty good job of trashing Queensland and the North Island, Cyclone Debbie reached us last night. This far south, it’s not a proper cyclone, just a lot of rain and a bit of wind, but it’s still been pretty miserable weather. The Press this morning was saying we’d get an entire month’s…
One of the fun bits about quilting is once you’ve got your main pieces made, and have a million possible ways to put them together into bigger blocks. I started playing around with a few options for the Three Dudes block this morning, and there were so many possibilities! I was tempted by this pinwheel…
I’ve always suspected being social is a dangerous thing. I proved it on Tuesday night, when, waving to my neighbour as we always do when I happen to arrive home while she’s in her front yard, I thought I’d actually stop and say hello for a change. As I was talking to her, I leant…
t’s been a busy but very productive weekend. The first thing I achieved was yesterday morning, when I got a load of firewood delivered, and managed to get it stacked into the garage in record time. That hadn’t been the plan, because I was supposed to be going to Mr Harvestbird’s birthday party, but when…