BLESSED SPEEDY

  Well thats the first 3 months of the year gone!  I feel like Ive been spasmodically productive - but to be fair there's been a lot going on.  Thankfully our new staff (Hi Hamish and Manda) are now here and working with us so life has got that little bit easier - except we have started calving so that creates plenty of busyness too! I did manage a knitting finish though! This cute hat which is the Baa-ble hat and I used an alternate chart thats available for it with border collies on it - I suspect this will be going to Queensland for them to all fight over up there :) March was also to be mosaics month - and I did get most of it done but I havent done the painting around the edges so Ill hopefully get that done in the next day or two and share with you next week - watch this space! Reading wise I finished the audio book of The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wings.  It didnt have a lot about actual sewing in it - but there was some design.  It was also at t...

 Well what a week the first week of 2023 has been  We didnt stay up until midnight on January 1 and was in bed by 930 like proper grown ups Sadly on the 4th January we lost Garys dad and my much loved favourite father in law John (see seperate post about this) I managed to finish a quilt that Ive been working on for quite some time - the pattern is Wee Three Birds, and I bought it as a kit from Nicky Tepper when she had her Honeysuckle Patchwork Shop in Bendigo.  I really enjoyed making this as its a row by row quilt but with lots of different techniques - some new to me too - english paper piecing, needle turn appliqué and machine piecing to name a few. Im not sure when I started it - possibly mid 2022 and I think its turned out quite lovely. I also finished two books - both on audible, so listening to them rather than reading them in a physical book.  And both from the same series - the Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor. Its the story of a bunch of disaster-pr...