The lawn has started to show lovely growth, not quite needing a cut every week, but looking good after winter.
Spring flowers are adding some colour to the garden now.
Cream Bearded Iris, flowering early, a few pink Ixia, almost finished their display.The small lemon tree in the background is fruiting !!!
Moxie's daisy bush has started to give lots of pink flowers.
Purple Granny Bonnet showing through the Japanese Maple shrub.Two Mauve and purple Cineraria plants.
The Rays of Hope wall hanging is coming along slowly, last week I found in a fabric shop two spools of black bias tape fusible, what a great way to do the stained glass strips. This is the lower part, similar shorter sections will be added to the top, the strips are fused to the thin interfacing, then the black bias added and sewn down, even though it is fused, stitching makes a better finish, a gift for a friend who doesn't see my blog. I just have to figure out how to do the words, Faith,Hope, Love in applique and fuse them to the centre cross. Out of all my batik scraps, and they are in MASSIVE supply, the red was the only one I had trouble to find. The right hand block has yellow topped pins still there.
Here is the finished wall hanging, courtesy of the internet, a pattern from Carolyn Morris, if you Google her and the pattern, you will find the story behind this beautiful quilt.
Days continue to be warmer, the firewood is handy in case of a late cold night.
Thank you all SO much for comments after the quake, we are a long way from the epicentre, and no damage, here of further south. It was deep and out in the water off the top of the South Island.
Quotation of the day, from John F. Kennedy
" Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future"
Greetings from Jean
21 comments:
Hello, Jean, I love seeing your spring blooms. Here at high altitude, we have some snow on the ground. We're approaching ski season, so we can always use more. I like seeing your quilting projects. Stay well! Barb
Such a beautiful gift you are making for your friend, Jean. It looks a lot of work, but will be made with lots of love, I'm sure. A stunning pattern indeed.
Your gardens are gorgeous. We are on the other end with most of our flowers giving up for the season. You must be feeling better to be working on that wall hanging....good news. We have had several days in the high 60s low 70s. What a gift for this time of the year.
Lovely to see your flowers waking up while our Northern ones are now going to bed. I especially like your showy pink daisies. Your batiks sure make convincing stained glass. Glad to hear the recent quake did no damage.
Oh Jean, your quilt is so beautiful! It does indeed look like stained glass. Enjoy your pretty Spring! I can always come vacation here if Winter becomes too long!
Hugs
Jane
The blooms are beautiful. Glorious spring. The wall hanging is going to be lovely!
Hello Jean,
I love all your beautiful flowers. Spring is my favorite time of the year.
Your wall hanging is beautiful, well done! Take care, enjoy your day!
Gorgeous flowers. Your wall hanging is going to be pretty, love that stained glass look.
Spring flowers are such a delight to see.
Lovely to see your spring blooms as we enter our winter. The Rays of Hope wall hanging is gorgeous!
What beautiful Spring flowers!! I like your wall hanging. Could you use a font on your computer to print the words real large, and use that for a template on a fusible?
Sandie, thanks for the suggestion, will try that. And to everyone else, many thanks for lovely words. Cold wind here today, so sewed down some more black strips !!!
Oh those spring flowers. I love that quilt Jean. Carol
What beautiful blooms you have! How in the world do you have Iris in October? I love them but for us it's a short-lived season in June! Your blog is simply lovely. Thanks for stopping at mine!
Such a cheerful post with all the garden blooms Jean - I love this time of year. Your iris are beauties, they seem to be difficult to grow here in Auckland, I had some beauties when we were in Christchurch, guess they need the cold winter weather.
Rays of Hope is looking magnificent!!
These are so heart warming! It is wonderful knowing it is spring somewhere! We had frost, and ice on the bird bath. The heater is broken. :'(
Dear Jean, the quilt is lovely and the perspective surely draws the eye to the center. I'm glad to learn that the quake didn't affect your home or you. Take care and thanks so much for the Kennedy quote. It's a good one. Peace.
What beautiful spring flowers you have to enjoy! The quilt is going to be lovely too!
Your flowers are so lovely and vibrant! Your quilt looks so pretty! You are doing such a wonderful job! Cant wait to see when you finish! Enjoy your pretty days!
That is an awesome quilt!!! I'm going to check out the website. I too have so many batik scraps and even a roll of the fusible black bias tape! What a wonderful uplifting project!
I'm a wee bit late in stopping by to thank you for coming to Marmelade Gypsy. Your Rays of Hope is just beautiful and it's so nice to see garden flowers when it's cold here in Michigan! Happy week to you. -- jeanie
Post a Comment