This week I pulled out a quilt that belongs to one of my family that needs repairing and a lot more quilting added to give it strength to last a few more years. Back ground is cotton but I used a lot of silk in the appliqué blocks and some of the silks in the borders is giving way due to not enough quilting done to stop pressure been put on the different parts of the quilt.
Bottom end of quilt that I’m working on.
Repair work on this seam then I need to quilt over it.
Another area that needs to be repaired and then quilted
Opposite corner repaired and quilted. I did this corner in 2014. It is difficult to quilt as it has two layers of wadding in it, one is cotton and one wool . When I made it about 9 years ago it was for a very cold area in the winter in Japan so my DS wanted it to be very warm??????
I now have almost two arm warmers for DGD
Not a lot that is new in the garden this week. but we have had a few visitors some so so sweet and some not to sweet!!!!! The below is a little ring-tailed possum. When we first moved here they were in the trees in front of the house but we have not seen them for the last 12 years so it was so special to see him or her two nights ago.
Then also two nights ago around 1am when I was up I nearly stood on this fellow, not so sweet and not so nice to stand on, he was about 6 inches long and very angry, I picked up the dogs water dish and covered him with it and went back to bed. In the morning he looked liked this all curled up and dopy from the cold, took some photos then relocated him back in to the wild.
Not what you want in your bedroom in the middle of the night?????
Many thanks for taking the time to drop in.
I’m off to link with Esther now at her WOW or WIP’s on Wednesday. http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/
Cheers Glenda
glenda_jean@bigpond.com
Someone left the sliding door open a couple of inches at the home I was visiting in Adelaide SA last month and a rather large spider had come in. It must have been at least 2.5 – 3 inches including hairy legs. Never seen one anywhere near that size here in Canada.
Hi Chris the first night I slept in our home I was on my own and when I went to bed there was a bird eating spider on my bedroom wall his body was the size of a golf ball black and covered in long hairs, then her long long legs covered in hairs also, it still sends shivers up my spin when I think of her. All I had with me was my sleeping bag a thick persian rug I was delivering to one of my sons and his flute, plus a very large saucepan for boiling water for drinking. Well I was not going to sleep with that in the house so one of us had to go???? I knew I only had one chance of getting that spider she was just above my reach so I turned the very large saucepan upside down for those extra inches I needed, the only thing I had that I could use to swipe her with was the flute case!!!!!!!! I took one flying leap and spat!!!! I ended up been the one who stayed the night alive and inside> I nearly always relocate the creepy crawlies when they come in side but not this one!!!!! I have lived here 20 years now and have never seen one since but they are seen often about a 7 min drive from here where my eldest DS lives. Hope other than this spider in your room the rest of your visit to OZ was a good one Chris Cheers Glenda
Oh no – that would be totally unacceptable in the bedroom in the middle of the night! Lovely vintage quilt and well worth the repairs. The extra quilting will show up beautifully with all that loft!
Hi Hilda, yep we do get our share of creepy crawlies that are better out side than in like the spider that wanted to share my first night in this house over 20 years ago LOL. It was rather pleasant been back quilting again after nearly 6 months, it took a wee while to get back in to the rhythm but it’s all going well now. Hugs Glenda
As always, Glenda you are working on something very special. Can’t wait to see the finished results. I did a little more work on my tie pillows and will take some pictures as soon as they are finished. Take care my friend, keep up the good work and I will chat with you again soon.
So nice to see your name here Julie that means you are feeling pretty good. Have not touched my crazy quilt the last two weeks but a panel is lying beside my arm chair still with all your beautiful fabrics tempting me that you sent me, so I will get back to it after I run out of steam hand quilting. Looking forward to seeing those photos of the tie pillows you have my mind going in circles wondering how you are making them up????? Hugs Glenda
I hate creepy crawly’s- I really can’t stand them. Someone told me awhile back about sticky traps and that is what I use now – but once they get in it they can’t get out so they are dead. It might not be what you want to use. They come in a carton of 4 and you put these little squares of plastic that have a glue like substance to them in the corners of your house where spiders and things crawl around the base of the walls and they get trapped in it. I toss them every month or so and get new ones, there are always spiders in them and little centipede like bugs. No matter how clean you keep your house there are always bugs that get in.
Love your quilt, I have repaired a few old quilts but would prefer not to.
Hi Karen, you would not settle in easy here then if you hate them so much. I had a thing about spiders when I first came to OZ to live but over the last 40 years I have learnt to live with them as long as they keep out of my house. W shave what we call house spiders that move in very quickly as they are very very tiny and make their nests in the ceilings on the open beams. Two years ago we painted the side veranda open beans white they were dark mahogany, what we have found is the spiders do not now nest on the white so slowly we are paining all the open beams white????? when I can count over 30 of them I get out the vacuum cleaner and suck them all up, leave it any longer and the babies hatch out. I do know the sticky traps but we have little tiny native marsupials that look like kangaroos but the size of a big rat and I just could not bear seeing one of those on the trap so we stick to the friendly traps and relocate them. I stuck some in the attic ceiling to try and catch the geckos in there but all I kept catching was my hair and that was so painful as it would not come off I had to pull till the hair broke. LOL Our gecko’s are so smart I did not catch one!!!!!! We are very lucky and do not have the problem of flies like they do down south. I would rather have spiders than flies, spiders are much cleaner creatures. Hugs Glenda
OK shivers up my spine but not because of the spider – I could just imagine trying to explain that one to the Flautist in my family!!!
Awesome to see the little possum back and also your quilts are so well loved they need repairing.
Hugs Wendy
Well the flute is still been played 20 years later LOL but the flautist does not know the story!!!! We have a bush rat coming in to the terrace at night time at present and driving my wee dog crazy, fortunately she does not bark at it just wants to chase it. I hope we catch it soon and can relocate it back in to the really rainforest far away from us. Cheers Glenda