Row By Row Challenge

The top row is my finished on my friend Vicky's row by row quilt. I am really happy with the result. I added the little blue bird because Vicky had put one in her 'Welcome' row. I am hoping that the others working on the quilt will follow suit and each row will have a little blue bird. Vicky's theme is "Country Life".

The funny part is Vicky has used the exact same row I did on the first row quilt she worked on, so I know she will like it! I now have that quilt! Pam's quilt is "Gardening"

I think I might do butterflies using the bended bias method by Linda M Poole. I don't want to do flowers on all the quilts!

Looking out my front door...

I was asked on one of the lists I belong to what I saw when I walked out the door. I thought it was easier to post a picture! This is what I see. The front garden, roses, the paddocks in front of the house and the hills off into the distance! The view changes with the season. At the moment the hills are dry and brown as it is summer. In winter they are green and in spring are yellow and purple with crops of canola and lupins. Very Pretty!

Michael

Since I have posted a picture of Matt, albeit at 3.30am on the day he spent 21 hours on an aeroplane, I thought I should post a picture of Michael! My boys are just gorgeous but then I am really biased! :)

Weed - just for Ali!

On one of my lists, we were discussing how we fixed "bloopers" and I told about my friendship quilt which our pet budgie made a meal of and how after the budgie named Weed, died I commerated him by appliquing a budgie over the damage to the quilt.

Ali then asked me to post pictures to my blog so here they are just for Ali (and anyone else who cares to peek!)

Just for Debbie...

then Ihave to stop. All tonights blogging is being done with my left hand as I have had a cortisone injection in my right wrist due to the dreaded repetitive strain injury! I can't use my right hand at all for 24 hours.

My sister Debbie has requested a picture of me, so here it is...

HI DEB!!!!!

Jardee

One of the highlights of the weekend was to be able to visit Jardee, the little timber mill town, 5kms from Manjimup, where my dad was born. The mill is closed now and the townsite is now privately owned. Can you imagine what it would be like to own a town?! The owner is now doing up all the mill cottages and renting them out. It is such a pretty place and I was quite overcome to be able to visit.

This is Churches Road. At the time of taking the Photo, I didn't realise that if I turned around and followed the dirt road for a few hundred metres I would have come to my great grandfather's farm.


This is the original mill office and post office.











The store shed and bus stop.














The town water supply (there are actually two tanks in the village) Stop work meetings for the workers were always held under this tank!
My fascination with my father's heritage is because my sisters and I never had the opportunity to know my Dad's family as his parent's both died in their early 20's. My Dad was just two and a bit years old.

It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted as all I have been doing is going to work.

This weekend just gone, I went to a little south west town called Manjimup and spent time with my best friend, Gillian and friends Lynley and Fay. We stayed at Fay's place. Fay is a very talented lady who dye's the most wonderful fabrics. We had a fun weekend watching the dyeing process which in the end produces the most amazing colous and movement in the fabric. I took pictures of the fabrics hanging on the line on Sunday morning after they spent the night soaking in the washing machine! Aren't they fabulous!! That is Fay in the foreground.