Esther Aliu’s scrappy hexagons lots of fun March 15th 2017

This is what I woke to at 5am this morning the first touches of the sunreflection hitting the river below us.

First rays of the sun hitting a palm leaf in front of our home and the river below us.

Ive spent most of this week appliquéing on blue bells and embroidering fine stems for my Secret garden block 2 of Esther Aliu’s mystery BOM for 2017 it is a very very beautiful. block.

This is were I was up to a week ago nothing but the vase and the first part of the sewing of the bias stems done. Since then I have hand appliquéd down the rolled over bias stems and appliquéd most of the blue bells and one large leaf. As the blue bells are made of crepe silk Im having to make hundreds of little tiny stitches so the silk will not fray any where!!!!! A weeks work here in those blue bells LOL

This is were Im up to now, 1/2 my leaves are applqiued on by machine and I hope to finish those today, ove

This is were Im up to this morning, 15th March, 1/2 my leaves are appliquéd on by machine and I hope to finish those today, after I have finished those I can finish appliquéing the rest of the fine stems, Blue bells, last two big leaves, big flowers and birds????? About a week or two LOL

I started appliquéing the blue bells and tiny stems with embroidery thread in the right hand corner and have worked my way to wards the first stems, had to add my 1st large leaf as a blue bell hung over top of it. Using 6 strands of floss and doing double back stitch for my stems. Going to add paler blue bells in the centre of the picture to give more light there, I ironed on those fused leaves this (Tuesday 14th Mar) morning may be I will get them machine appliqué to day these leaves need to be appliquéd before adding those pale blue bells so my machine foot can manoeuvre easily. My bird is just a thought at this stage LOL

Late This Avo Ive been amking tiny wee birs for the bloc

Late This Avo Ive been making tiny wee Robyn’s

Taken in the daylight this morning truer colours here.

Taken in the daylight this morning 16th March truer colours here.

Esther Aliu www.estheraliu.blogspot.com.au has just released a wonderful scrappy hexagon design it is so much fun to make, I downloaded the pattern on Saturday evening and have been playing with it ever since, you can buy the pattern on Esther’s Online shop.

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Scrappy hexagone on points.

Scrappy Hexagon.

Just keep on adding triangles in to hexagons and then join hexagons up in to a quilt the size you want!!!!!

Just keep on making triangles in to hexagons and then join hexagons up in to a quilt the size you want!!!!!

Another thing I enjoy doing is trying to get sewing machines going Not electronic ones old than when they came out.

On Saturday I was given these 2 sewing machines and a over locker

On Saturday I was given these 2 sewing machines and and a over locker. I spent 4 hrs on the old machine in the fore ground and she is now sewing beautifully. Its around 1950 model assembled in Australia from Japanese parts. Hubby managed to get the electronic one to sew but it keeps sewing backwards though LOL

In the garden mostly nothing but mould mould and more mould.

our front paves are very bad, in the distance in the middle of photo you can see where I have started exit-moulding them.

Oneof the joys of living in the wet rainforest LOL there is all ways lots of work to be able to live here.

In the foreground is concrete covered in black mould path below I have just cleaned I was to tired to do this bit at the top.

Where ever I look there is cleaning up needed

even my wee sleeping cat the mould started to grow; I’ve cleaned her since this was taken this morning so she is snow white again!!!!

You can see where I have got to with the cleaning of this path!!!!!

But we do have splashes of colour in the garden so hopefully the wet is coming to an end again.

A lovely splash of colour.

This is one of my favourite flowers in the garden It flowers twice a year and brings me so much joy. What a colour combination, pink purple and green!!!!!

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Stunning colour combinations here.

A purple orchid unfolding from its sheath. plus lovely splashes of bright yellow brom’s with red centres and last years brom flowers still not cut off!!!!!

He lives in Hubbies work shop and will not move, if Hubby wants to use the tools he’ s sitting on he has to gently move him.

An orchid bloom unfolding I love to see them unfold like a butterfly from a chrysalis.

Both flowers are fully open now so so beautiful and the perfume is magical.

Thank you for dropping in to visit, Im now off to link with Esther Aliu on her WOW or WIP’s I do this every Wednesday and catch up on what some other quilters around the world are doing in the quilting world. Cheers Glenda

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7 Responses to Esther Aliu’s scrappy hexagons lots of fun March 15th 2017

Karen says:

March 15, 2017 at 11:10 pm

your secret garden quilt block is so pretty have fun with all that applique. The flowers and critters are all so interesting to see from your area of the world. I imagine all the heat and humidity does make things like stone pavers hard to keep clean, getting all the moss and things off of them is work!!

- glenda says:
  
  March 17, 2017 at 8:37 am
  
  HI Karen still thinking about your propella quilt LOL It has such impact. Our last three mornings have been fresh and not humid and clammy so our wet season must be leaving us thank goodness after 4 months Im glad to see it go. Weve been ahving much higher temps than usual, I wen tdown to the city yesterday and it was 37C!!!! It was wonderful to drive back up the range back to 32C which felt so lovely and cool under the trees around our home. Thanks for dropping in to see what Im up to Cheers Glenda
  
Plum Cox says:

March 15, 2017 at 11:21 pm

You are so busy! Nice to see the contrast with the delicate hand stitched applique and the paper pieced hexie! It’s always good to have a variety of projects to hand, isn’t it?
I had never really thought of the amount of work that the damp makes for you in the garden. Our temperate climate here in the UK seems quite easy in comparison, although we have to clean up decking and paths once winter is over too!

- glenda says:
  
  March 17, 2017 at 9:04 am
  
  Hi Plum, I had to go down to the city yesterday and so no mail was answerd, Ive been siting at my computer the last two hours catching up this morning from 7 till 9am now. A beauitful beautiful morning out side, it will be soon time to be working each morning in the garden again to cut out new sapplings and pull out ones just starting to grow, or we would be swollowed up by the rainforest. A sapling will grow 1 1/2 metres in a month here this time of the year and dozen of seedlings grow so for 2 months it’s a battle to keep them under controll. If I do it every morning its an easy task. So my sewing will suffer. Hugs from paradise LOL
  
Marsha Cooper says:

March 16, 2017 at 1:09 am

Reminds me of the spiderweb quilt that’s been on my list to start for a couple of years now.

- glenda says:
  
  March 17, 2017 at 8:57 am
  
  Thanks Marsha, funny how some thing will remind us of a quilt we have as a UFO or one we’d like to make. To me it looks like shattered stainglass. Just been visiting your blog to but unable to leave a message, may be others are ahving the same problem. Love the pieced star you are working on wonderful colours. Cheers Glenda
  
Maggie says:

March 16, 2017 at 11:29 pm

Dear Glenda

Your garden is a vision for sore eyes! We got more snow, then cold and what else, more snow. We are ready for spring. Crazy week here, your secret garden is amazing, with all the fabric printed flowers. They all add so much more to the end result.
The Orchids made my day.
Thank you for showing to all of us.