Accepted Few

C9 Accepted Few

Another delightful block from Carol. Accepted Few evolved when I started to make it in one fabric and part way through found I didn't have enough fabric to make all of the dark pieces and had to settle on fewer than I had originally planned. I love those chicken feet.

Busy Weekend

C11 - Hunter's Web

C8 - King of Versailles (in the Outback)

C8 - Too Many Thorn

C9 (Feral) Sports D

Well Carol and her blocks have had a very busy weekend. Whilst out with the King of Versailles (in the Outback) and in the midst of her (Feral) Sports Day she encountered Too Many Thorns and a Hunter's Web.  Amazing how if you try you can link anything together..makes one wonder why they don't solve more crimes these days...perhaps due to the fact that fabricating links isn't really the right way to go.

Hunter's Web and Too Many Thorns were two of my favourites. In the original quilt Hunter's Web is actually smaller as I didn't check my printing scale and printed it 'to fit on the page', whatever scale that was I don't remember but I do know that it was my last sheet of foundation paper and so I left it. I prefer Carol's version where the points go right out to the edge... love points in case you haven't guessed:)

King of Versilles was made after a day out with our son. He was studying in Paris at the time and thought we would enjoy the palace, which we did. Carol's busy faric is more reminiscent of the busyness and ornateness of the palace. Well worth the visit and better allows people to understand why the normal people rebelled at the royals considering many of them were starving at the time.

I must say that Carol's take on a sports day is to the point and very true for the average three legged race with senior boys. That is one event I won't miss when I leave work.

Scatterday D

Isn't that D something else.

I just love stripes and for this week we will have

# something humourous

# feet

# furniture

# and a quilty display

Posting date is 16th March.

Scatterday I - Announcing Australia's NEW wealthiest woman

OK all of you poor lowly mortals I believe that I must now be the richest person in Australia.  I just checked on the web and Gina Rhinehart only has a mere $20 billion whereas as may be seen from my photographed notes above I not only have an original Iraqi Dinar of unkonwn value but I also have $100 trillion which everyone must agree is an immense sum. Both of these notes were purchased by my ingenious son using funds saved from his weekly pocket money..boy are we generous parents to be able to afford to give him enough money he could save the necessary funds..and we never thought he was a good saver:)
I have been investigating how poor Gina invests her wealth and figured that mining was the way to go. Now to the eye of an immature individual the second photo may appear to be just rubble from my backyard but trust me it is iron ore from my backyard and after my friend Eddie gets his mate Ian to pay me an over inflated amount for mining rights I could well have another $100 trillion. With this immense wealth I was hoping to purchase an innovative ipad but this tool is beyond my trillions and so I will probably need to settle on the inferior ipad mini whilst waiting for my investments to mature.
Due to my strong finanacial situation I have decided it is the perfect time to expand my craft interests to inchies which I am easily able to afford since my mum gave me a 40L container of buttons and being a scrooge I have never thrown away any scraps even those huge palm sized pieces that many of you store in your trash can...as they say a fabric saved is a fabric earned. I would have actually sewn the buttons onto my inchies but... organising my immense wealth is just so time consuming..perhaps next time.

Fingers Crossed

Snippets

Well in just over eight hours I am heading off to Cobargo. Don't ask me where that is as I don't know, apart from the fact it is about four hours south of here about. I am off to a retreat and am teaching Snippets.  Plenty of photos will follow sometime next week, but this post is just to warn people. If anything goes wrong with my scheduled Scatterday upload or if anyone is having difficulties uploading their link please accept my apologises but I can't do anything until Monday at the earliest.

Looking forward to checking everything next Monday.... and hoping that everything goes better than my iPad transfers have been going..which is why I am still up at 12.43am

Gift wrapped and Summer Picnic

C5 Gift Wrapped

C8 Summer Picnic

Isn't Carol's choice of fabrics spot on in Gift Wrapped. I always love stripes and these give the definite suggestion of a party with lots of streamers.

In her second block Carol, Summer Picnic, she says she isn't sure where they will have the picnic as everything is overcrowded with flowers. Funny isn't it you lay two fabrics together and there appears a good contrast and then, after you go to all of the effort to actually sew them together, the contrast disappears.  I had it happen too often myself when making Raconteur. Some blocks I remade while others I left. 

We've all been there.

Luca in Spring

C31 Luca

C8 Spring Surprise

Two more blocks from Carol which I accidentally uploaded to my other blog and wrote about them there. Must head off.  If you want to know where the names came from check here.

Spring Surprise for Luca

C31 Luca

C8 Spring Surpris

Well nothing is going to slow Carol down. Two more cute blocks have just landed in my mailbox and I had to share them now. The first, Luca was named after a girl I met on a cruise once. She was a bundle of life and there were always people surrounding her whatever the event.  She came from England and I initially called this block Luca from London but thought it a bit of a mouthful and so shortened it.

What a woinderful garden Carol must have if the flowers in Spring Surprise are any indication. And of course where would spring be without the bees and their delicious honey.

Just realised after uploading that this should have been on my other blog. No worries if you wish to see more of Carol's blocks check it out here.

Carol finishes Collection 2

Collection 2

Well Carol couldn't wait any longer. She had to put one of the collections together. Although she has finished 62 blocks she had been so busy making blocks she hadn't stopped to actually join them together but yesterday she sat down determined that now was the time. Didn't it come up well?

Her layout is different from the original but that is the joy of Raconteur, it lets everyone join things as they like it. I do like the wide variety of colours and fabrics and can't wait to see what else she will do.

For anyone who hasn't yet started but who thinks they might enjoy making some miniature hexagonal blocks there is a block of the month series starting April 2nd. Check here for more details.

The Lost Dr Seuss Poem

After uploading Carol's latest block yesterday I remembered a poem which I have over my desk at work and thought othrs may enjoy it as much as I do some days.

I Love My Job

I love my job. I love the pay!
I love it more and more each day.
I love my boss, he is the best.
I love his boss and all the rest.

I love my office and its location.
I hate to have to go on vacation.
I love my furniture, drab and grey,
and piles of paper that grow each day.

I think my job is really swell.
There's nothing else I love so well.
I love to work among my peers. 
I love their leers and jeers and sneers (this bit isn't true of my peers0

I love my computer and its software.
I hug it often though it won't care.
I love each program and every file.
I'd love them more if they worked a while.

I'm happy to be here. I am. I am.
I'm the happiest slave of the Firm, I am
I love this work. I love these chores.
I love the meetings with deadly bores.


I love my job. I'll say it again.
I even love those friendly men.
Those friendly men who've come today,
In clean white coats to take me away!!