Happy April Fools Day

Welcome April, the only month to start with a Fools Day.

I love the fact that even though we all think we are so advanced in our concepts of civilization, we still practice so many of the Roman holidays. So much of the symbolism that is attached to religious holidays comes from the original Roman holidays. So next time you eat a chocolate bunny, just have a think about why you are doing it. Well yes it is in the very question... chocolate... duh.

March whizzed by with much comings and goings. My daughters’ wedding was lovely. She looked lovely and I did the silly thing of tearing up when I saw my husband walk her down the aisle. She looked beautiful. Yesterday for the first time I saw that she had changed her name on Face book. That was a bit of a moment. I try to be a non-clingy mother and allow her to be an adult, (She is turning 30 this year) but sometimes it is a bit difficult.

Our ASDL line went down for 4 days. Oh the horror! I tried with a 3g USB stick, but the slowness was too much. I was going to use it today if I had to, but, thankfully the line came back last night. First world problems are such a bother.

The weather is getting to be the way I like it. Just the way that goldilocks liked her porridge, neither too hot nor too cold. We had 3 weeks of rain and that was lovely. I know that most people were getting grumpy about the moisture, but I love it and so did the garden. I hope we get a bit more before winter sets in and then we have to hold our breaths until we get rain at the start of summer. Living with no rain for many months is really not nice. Eventually there is soo much static, that you can believe that you have a new super power, and that your name should be either Shocky or Sparky. 

  Progress on the Dear Jane is occurring. I have less that 10% to go. This means that I have 21 blocks left to quilt. Yay! It seems that the closer you get to the corners, the easier it is to do the quilting. I am so excited to think that the end is nigh... LOL. (This is my youngest doing a Kilroy for me)

I finished another YLI quilting bobbin, that makes it number 2. 

I have started have stress however, about the finishing of the quilt. The question that is currently plaguing me is the sequence in which I should do the binding. Currently I think I will stitch on the bias binding, then cut the excess fabric. Then roll hem the cut edge and then finally wrap the binding over and stitch it on the back.

This past weekend, my family helped my make the Bias binding. I think we got just a bit carried away as we made 27 meters of the stuff. I bought polka dot fabric from the one fabric store which is 75 km away and then when I popped into the fabric store that is 2 km away I spotted this fabric. I think it is lovely. I think it will frame the quilt nicely.

The other thing which I have to resolve is how I am going to Label the quilt. The two options are, sewing on the corner like Jane did, or put the label on the back. Which way are you going to do it?

Hope everyone has an amazing April.

Have a good one.

April is here

So a quarter of the year has slipped by. Autumn seems to have come to the garden with the leaves deciding it is time to do their final swan song before falling to the ground. It has started to be cooler which is a great thing. It seems that we are now waking before the next door neighbours chickens as well as all the little birds that live in our garden. The sun is off to it's northern vacation. Hope spring comes to the north as the news shows horrid temperatures still.


The counter is at 2161 which is an amazing number and still only 2 comments *Sigh*.


I read this morning that You Tube was shutting down and no longer accepting videos. It will be re-opening again in 2023.

The I tried Goggling and google crashed. Who boy maybe the internet is broken.

Happy April fool portion of the post. :D

Easter has been a fun time off work, though any time spent at home is always amazing. My contract has just come to an end and my new contract is only for three months. This is the problem with working for a company that is mostly owned by an overseas company, the bad economy bites everyone. Life will happen and this is one of those things that I have no control over, so hey, what is the use of fretting.

I have been working diligently on Dear Jane's Triangle and only have the blue triangle and the Kites to go. Having finish 213 of the 225 blocks, I am now 95% finished with creating the blocks that make up the quilt. Hopefully this month I can finish off the remaining blocks and then start with the sashing of all of the blocks.


Hope everyone had a grand Easter and enjoys April.

Have a good one.