But there has been time for some play too.
I've made a few more blocks for the Windswept quilt top and made some progress on the Cross stitch project.
Happily Ever After has more than a few beads now.
The above image was taken on 3rd November and I've picked away here and there adding a few stitches and beads, then yesterday got to sit for a couple of hours and did quite a bit. The image below is where I left it at tea time yesterday evening.
The vines and beads continue on up above the word 'And'.
Then I will need to figure out how best to finish it. A frame with no glass or as a quilted wall hanger.
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The Flutterby Bunny that I was quilting just a few days ago has not progressed. Work and the garden have gotten in the way of that. Maybe I'll get back to it today. But first some more garden work. I have a few things to plant, some more broccoli seedlings, another pair of courgette as I lost the previous pair to a late frost and I also want to sow a few Buttercup squash seeds.
Our green house is going well, the tomatoes are doing really well with lots of flowers and some fruit already set. Though they are still tiny. In the small greenhouses the chilli peppers and capsicum are also doing well.
The cauliflower I planted in Autumn are much slower that the broccoli planted at the same time, they were finished a while ago, but the Cauli are now ready, we have eaten two, another is in the fridge, one needs to be picked and brought in and yet another will be ready soon. I've made a lot of cauliflower cheese and discovered a new to me Cauliflower salad recipe. I might tweak it a little but will for sure be making it again.
Right I'm off to work in the garden before it gets too hot. Yesterday we reached 27 C. Today looks to be cooler but I want to get it done early so I can relax and play with my needles.
11 comments:
Mmm, the cauliflower salad sounds nice, in the winter I often make cauliflower and cheese soup, all whizzed up its creamy and very tasty too, espe ially with some cooked chopped bacon on top.
Another vote for cauliflower soup for me, but I use chorizo rather than bacon....it freezes, too. That's a very pretty cross stitch, my choice would be a shiny frame with glass.
work does seem to get in the way of our crafting times!
Hugz
Beautiful stitched piece for the newlyweds.
You are so busy in your garden, and mine finally got frozen last week (we had a warm autumn and I thought the garden season might not end this year).
The cross stitch is looking very pretty with all the fancy bead work. I think a frame with non reflective glass will be the way to go.
Happy gardening , better than housework..
Lovely cross stitch and you are making wonderful progress. My Mum used to make a pickle/chutney with cauliflower and any other veges from the garden she had.
Your panel is looking lovely with the pretyy sparkly beads. xx
Sometimes the garden just has to take over. It can't wait!
The cross stitch is gorgeous. I agree that framed under glass would be nice. That’s what Mum did with ours and it still looks like new. Such a busy time in the garden. It should be nice and productive over the next few months.
Beautiful cross stich Lou - the beading takes it to the next level. Well done on the garden efforts - it sounds like you will be bottling and preserving ovre summer again!
beautiful so far lou...gardens to eat up time but oh so worth it...i'm missing our farm stands already...
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