1st week of September 2025

As the days go by.........yes its September! On the farm we are three quarters of the way through calving and the last group of "girls" to calve are quite spread out so it might take a while Excitingly we baled 210 rolls of silage this last week - so thats feed stored away for another day and another 120 odd bales from a block in town. Its so good to have this stored away as the grass doesnt last forever and cows still need to be fed. Fingers crossed we get some good rains this week so that the paddocks will be watered from above and not from irrigation.

This week I also managed to finish a project thats taken me a month or two to complete - but Ive enjoyed every step of it. The pattern is the Tussie Mussie cushion and is designed by Emma Jean Jansen. I also bought the kit to make the cushion from her and just love the fabrics in it. Its english paper pieced and then attached to each of the small squares. These were then all joined together by machine and stitched in the ditch. I then hand quilted around each of the squares using perle 8 cotton - this is something Ive never done before, but I loved it and love the finished look and its something Ill definately do again. Im almost tempted to make a whole quilt in this design I love it that much.

In the evenings Ive been working on knitting a quite complicated shawl in three colours. It was nice to take a break from that for a night and whip up a face washer - the pattern is Diagonal Dishcloth and I used Jo Sharp cotton to make it. Megan was happy to receive it as she really likes my hand knitted cloths. On the reading front I finished a really thick book - over 550 pages and loved loved loved it

This books talks about issues that many of us face on a daily basis and does it so very well, - women and their everyday struggle, homelessness, refugees, single mothers, prejudice and small town living. Each of the women in the story are struggling with different things and coping in different ways but meet by way of a community garden. Each of them throughout the story come to various realisations of how they have been living and grown and learn from each other. As I live near a small town I get how these things happen in small communities - and in fact the book is set in a fictional town in an area not far from me in Northern Victoria Australia. As I said I loved this book - so well written and thoughtout and really had me thinking of how I look on things in life. Definately 5 stars for this one. So now its on to week 2 of September - see you next week for that update!