My family has needed me of late so my blog has suffered, not much to see quilting wise but I will share some colour in my garden with you plus a couple of display dolls I rescued!
I have completed 5 panels now but sadly have missed placed the 6th panel so I will have to set this aside for now till I find it.
It took me ages to clean the dolls and hours to get the hair to look like hair again, I had to clean their faces, carefully wash their eyes clean and re-glue their eye lashes back on.
I brought home two display dolls from the Op Shop a few weeks ago, sadly they had been given to a children to play outside in the dirt and vegetation and it was all through their hair.
After many hours of cleaning here is one of them in clean clothes and a new hairdo????? plus her own teddy.
Another clean faced wee girl with new lace added to her underskirt also plus a new hairdo????
Now colour in the garden this week.
Below is the Hoya hanging down from the tree fern, this year it is covered in flowers.
Below are two golden canes, one on the left has been pruned and the one on the right has become very over grown and is not a good thing to have in the garden like this as it is a haven for the mosquitos to breed in?????? I cleaned the left one up two weeks ago it took me several hrs to get it back to looking like this.
I’m baby sitting Jersey for a week, she is a lovely sloppy cuddly dog.
Looking down to the river
I have been cleaning up this area and adding Bromeliads
A HUGE cloud of pink it was breath taking to look at. Taken out of the car when I went down to the city yesterday.
Off to link with Esther now on her WOW http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/
Thank you for dropping in, hopefully I will see be here next week too. Cheers Glenda
As always, your plants and flowers are beautiful. Those dolls are so cute, my granddaughters would love them. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who misplaces quilting pieces! They’ll show back up but not until you start a replacement. Blessings!
Dear Glenda
Your garden is a treat! With the change of season, we have had one down with a cold already. Spending the time with the warmer weather we are having in the garden. Next summer, we hope to start a few flowerbeds and get the garden going. Love the way you have brought the dolls back to life. I bet Jersey is enjoying being with you on holiday!
It’s always a treat to see your garden, Glenda! We are getting shorter days and chillier mornings here in the UK.
Your dolls have scrubbed up really well!
Hugs
Sue
Your crazy patchwork panels look so intricate, not because the pieces are so small but because of they way they are cut and stitched together. They will make a very fun quilt.
Nice work on the dolls. It is sad to see dolls in disrepair. I’m impressed that you were able to get the hair in such good condition again.
Nancy these patchwork panels are from around 1920 1930s I bought them online around 20 years ago and have slowly been replacing all the silk patches as they have disintegrated over the last 90 years, a lovely quilter from the USA sent me scraps of fabric and some lovely velvet scraps of around the same area so you can not see where I have replaced the fabrics. I’m just doing a simple herringbone stitch around all the patches, the original squares are all sugar or flour sacks mostly been bleached but some still have the brand names you can read clearly and the patches are all from left over sewing projects and just stitched down as the shape is they have been sewn on higgledy piggledy on top of each other they just grew there has been NO planing done so they have a lovely charm to them. It is all very frail and could not go through a washing machine or even hand wash but it will look lovely as a wall hanging. I just wanted to repair them for all the work the unknown quilt did and join the panels so some one can enjoy them. Cheers Glenda