I have been working only on my LE again this week; it’s like it is in control, it tells me what flowers to make and where to add them!!! These colours are not what I first choose for LE, I had taupe soft shades chosen but the quilt refused to grow till I started to use these colours????? LE has a mind of its own.
Mid week
Little pink hearts have been appliquéd on; now I have to fine time to add the tiny yellow centres on them, on the other corner hearts I embroidered french knots .
slowly slowly she grows
All these fabrics are silk.
I have been working none stop on this vase for two weeks I have never enjoyed so much making up a quilt as I have on this one.
LE this morning
My goodness that centre area looks so empty now that the 4th vase is nearly completed.
I have the last of the red cherries to make now add the broderie perse at the top of the vase and finally I need to add those French Knots to the hearts another week at least. .
Last night I added the last wee flowers to the top of the flower arrangement above the iris and added the cherry stems.
Wild life this week.
I have all ways been fond of frogs so it is so nice to have them in my garden all year round. He’s only about 1″ long or less. Lives around the swimming pool where it is all ways cool and damp. But he has about 100 cousins who live here too?????
Tree Frog sitting on the entrance rail at night time. He’s a good 3″ long.
In the garden this morning very early.
Spider Orchid
Thank you for dropping in. November has sneaked up on us all, and I now realise it is time to think about Xmas mail. But in the mean time I’m off to link with Estherhttp://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/ and look at some of the links of other quilters from around the world how small it is now that we have the internet.
It is Esther’s Birthday to day.
Cheers Glenda
Your LE is progressing beautifully. The more I read about different quilter’s journey with LE the more timid I get about starting mine, eventually. I want to make it as a wedding gift for my granddaughter Elly, but since she is only 3 1/2, there is lots of time.
Hi Chris thanks for dropping in. If you are going to make LE as a quilt for your DGD what a wedding gift it will be but allow several years not a year unless you can work on it and have other commitments like writing your book!!! It has been a challenge for me working with such tiny pieces of fabric in silk. I sure have learnt a lot more about appliqué over the last 18 month making LE mostly how to make the finest invisible stitches LOL. Cheers Glenda
it looks like LE has taken over your life LOL – I love how it looks you are doing such a spectacular job on it. The colors are working out so well.
the frog is so cute and love all your plants like usual.
Karen
Hi Karen yes LE does take over my life when I’m working on it, she demands all my time and I can not stop working on it then I’m burnt out usually and it goes in to hiding for months while I recover LOL. Garden is looking nice at present as we did not go through a dry season this year and with the extra rain things have been growing at a faster pace than normal and the plants have not died or shrived up about to die. Cheers Glenda
LE is looking so pretty. I like the bright colors you are using. I couldn’t make this quilt in taupes anyway. As always, your garden is lovely. Enjoy your late springtime. Blessings, Gretchen
Hi Gretchen thanks for the encouraging words on my LE, it has been a hectic couple of weeks trying to sneak moments here and there to work on it. To day I was going to work on it all after noon but life got in the way and I have not done one stitch???? I hope tomorrow is calmer and I can curl up and work on it. Hugs Glenda
What wonderful work on your LE – love the additions that you’ve made, it really is fabulous!
So lovely to see your little frog too – I love the noise that they make, but I know that many people get a bit grumpy about it being too much. I guess that I always associate it with holidays, so its a happy noise for me!
Dear Plum you would love it here when the first monsoon rains come, the frogs are every where, the little tiny green frogs hang from the plants around the swimming pool like flowers, I never get tired of going out with a torch and laughing at their gymnastic of holding on with just one hand often upside down. Some years there are so many in the 100s that we can not sleep unless we shut the doors. We have one frog the has the most unusual call it sounds like a dripping tap and can drive you crazy when you are trying to go to sleep LOL. Yes I have fond memories as a child on summer holidays at the lakes and catching tadpoles and frogs which I adored. Thanks for giving me a big boost on my LE it took me 18 months to attack the final vase arrangement but it took off when I decided to make it up with my own flowers and style. Hugs Glenda
Glenda I love your garden. Those 100 cousins is just priceless!!
Thank You.
Hi Maggie, when we first moved in to this home the garden looked part of the jungle to us having never lived in it; we soon released it was scrub ( jungle weeds out of control) plus there was NO drainage and in the monsoon months the house had a river running under it when the torrential rain came, so it was constantly damp in the house, after 20 years we now have the river running down the sides of the house and the scrub cleared so there are not so many mossies, fewer creepy crawlies in side the house and only rain trees down the sides of the house and back and in the front area palm trees and tree ferns around the swimming pool area, but it takes a lot of looking after at least 3 hrs a day all year round or we will be swallowed by the scrub and rainforest trees again. Cheers Glenda