I always think of Wednesday as the start of my week as this is when I think about what I have done and what I want to do the week coming!!!!!
During the past week I pulled my LE out again and did some serious thinking about it?????
OK this is what I have been thinking of for nearly two years but I just was NOT happy with the light spacer.
I went in to my sewing room to get the fabric for the 2nd border and saw this pink silk kimono and thought what if????
now what if???????? I use this pink also in a border may be I will have enough fabric to complete the quilt!!!!!
If I choose to use the pink for this border I do have a problem; I have made my ovals in pink as I was going to use green for this border. !!!! Where there is a will there is a way though LOL
A silk pink Kimono in the middle of been unpicked and the sleeve of a green one.
My pile of fabric is now 3 little piles ironed ready to use. Left brocade silk middle silk lining right silk green brocade All from Kimono’s I have unpicked to use in or on a quilt. Now that I want to work on my LE I want to have it some where so I can look at it any time and move things around where to find that space?????
Found my space, this is a old filing cabinet for surveyors maps now it is all done by computer, when I saw them about to be throw it in to he skip I thought it would be perfect for storing Kimonos in?????
Perfect storage for Kimonos
Now plus it will be perfect for been able to keep my LE flat for the next few months!!!!!
Lovely kingsize quilt that was handed in to the Op Shop I have just washed it as it was soiled in a couple of spots. It had been heavily quilted in strips and nothing in the other strip. Sadly when it was washed the un-quilted panels the wadding is starting to break up and roll in to balls. SO SO much work and we have a problem all most impossible to fix????? It will still look pretty though on as a bed spread.
Close up of the appliqué design
Looking North. I usually go here each Wed morning early.
Down at the beach yesterday looking South. I had lunch down there, so so lovely.
In the garden this week.
This is a rather a large BROM flower; it will last up to 3 or 6 month then die!!!!
Close up of the large Brom.
Our local tourist train that comes up twice in the mornings and back down in the after-noons. It is just a tourist train to our village from the city down below. Ride takes around 2 1/2hrs and is a big attraction here for the tourists.
Off to link up with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s now
http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/
Cheers ALL Glenda
It is exciting to see the progress on your LE. The cabinet was a wonderful find and having LE out where you can see her will encourage your to keep working on her. Enjoyed the beach and flower photos. It is 0*F here at 6am this morning, wind-chill factor is below zero. My Amaryllis bulbs have flower buds and in another month I’ll have flowers in winter. Blessings, Gretchen
your kimono’s are beautiful. The darker pink is very pretty with the LE but I too wonder on the ovals that you have already prepped – will they blend into the background? maybe you could solve that problem by embroidery an outline around them when you are done in a darker color – more work of course – just an idea.
Than metal cabinet for storing your kimonos is such a brilliant idea and the top provides a good work space.
Love your tourist train, sounds like the ones we have taken in the mountains of the west that go between tourist towns that have great scenery in between.
Dear Glenda
I love the brighter pink silk. It makes your LE pop! I have been playing catch-up in my sewing room. Then I have to tidy up the piles of mess, which have I have discovered. My LE wink at me, urging me on to finish all the “honey to do list stuff”. With an incentive like LE, it makes it so much quicker.
I like the darker border. Isnt it funny how something that bothers us can stop progress on any other part until we solve the problem. Your LE is beautiful.
Thanks for sharing the beach pictures. We’ve had a couple of cm of snow this week so sunny beach pictures look especially inviting.