Little Hazel and a brown WIP 23rd Mar 2016

Sun has just come up and what a beautiful morning and I know it is going to be a perfect day I love how the shadows change so quickly when the sun rises. .

I have cut out 1/2 the templates for my outer ring on Little Hazel, but first drew up a 1/2 circle of the outer ring on a very very large piece of paper so I can check and check as I make my templates and then check when I sew my pieces together.  I have 1/2 of the fabric and the templates cut now.

I cut 1/2 my centre shapes first and checked these to see if they would fit???? I think they do LOL I have placed  cutting squares on top of them to stop them from curling up!!!!  My first row of triangles will be black.

Oh dear I was so so sure yellow was the right colour and I dislike it so much Hmmmmmmm It is fighting so much against the centre it looks like a separate piece.  Every one of those yellows are a different fabric and they just have to go so its back to the drawing board this week to find another colour.   PS I have found one but will share it next week LOL  Today it will be cutting out another 32 freezer paper templates and 32 pieces of fabric then ironing them together.  May be by the week end Little Hazel centre will be finished but don’t hold your breath LOL

All 4 leaf borders finished now to find time to sew them on?

A corner of the Woollen PNG quilt with leaf borders lying beside it.

Add a flower

Add some bigger ones in those big open deep purple triangle

Now add a couple of tiny leaves to the Heart flower to finish it off!  Now I just need to sew those borders on so this can all be finished! Did I mention any where that I love colour LOL

So while living in PNG I meet up weekly with 5 other quilters from the regular weekly open quilting group (where there were often up to 40 people it was more social than sewing and lots of laughter. )  we set our selves challenges to make us think out side the box and take us out of our comfort zone.  this challenge was make a block using the colour you least liked, that was easy for me it was BROWN  LOL  then make this block in to a quilt????

My first embroidery block, I knew how to make colonial knots and french knots as I had learnt over the past 12 months how to do candlewhicking embroidery.  So I drew a heart and made knots all over it playing with every different coloured thread there was. there are 1000 of knots there and it took me several weeks to make the block. One day DS walked in and stopped to look and said “Mumma stop now it looks perfect like it is, you can see how it started and how it finished” so I stopped.

After my first heart block I made another with different stitches and I just kept on making up heart designs and making up stitches remember there were no book shops up there!!!!! then my mum sent me a wee embroidery book from NZ and I started learning from a book!!!!!!

Maiden fern looking lovely in the late after-noon sun yesterday

My copper frogs disappearing under the weed creepers they will have to be saved before they are eaten up completely.

Tree ants making a new nest folding down the leaves sewing the leaves together. If you zoom in you can see how they have cut the leaf above down the centre of the leaf and then pulled it down and are now wrapping it around the new nest full of eggs.

I accidently knocked the vine and instantly their nest was covered in ants ready to defend it, they will drop off on to you and have a nasty wee bite so hiker beware.

Some would call these leaves ugly but it is one of my hubbies favourite plants in the garden

Its time to clean the pavers again; before and after cleaning!!!!!!

Tiny tiny insect bats. Mum dad and 3 babies make 5! babies will be ready soon to fly off and find their own territory. But for now they are cleaning up the mosquitos every night while we sleep. I was so lucky to get up close enough last night and take the photo.  they are hanging on to a concrete block see their tiny tiny perfect fingers and toes?