Thursday

Chris finished, ta-da:

Chris-completed

and here’s the latecomer Jan’s efforts so far – 3 sessions and she’s already stitching:

Jan-3rd session

she’s only here on holidays (came into the shop to get some Christmas sewing supplies & saw my quilts and decided to join us) so she’s keeping it pretty simple. She’s a quick study, it’s great.

more student work

Joyce - completed
I’m behind all over the place, trying to catch up. I don’t do juggling very well at all, I’m afraid.

of the Thursday group, Chris has almost finished and Karen is nearly ready to start quilting (she missed a few sessions). I’ve got a new lady who’s only had two sessions and is fairly galloping ahead, but I haven’t got any photos yet.

< -- Joyce has finished hers.

From the Saturday group, Sandra’s well into the quilting:

Sandra - quilting in progress

and Margaret is ready to (part) bag and start quilting:

Margaret - top finished, ready to half-bag & quilt

Last Wednesday the balcony gang (my mum and four of our friends) came over for the day & started their birds. We used to meet fortnightly to experiment with different stuff, but between people going away and getting sick and winter and stuff it’s been months. Cheeky buggers gave me such a hard time.

tripping

plantation - macadamias?near Byron - that's the Pacific in the distancenear Byron - that's the Pacific in the distance

Dad & I went on a quick trip north last weekend. I entertained myself during one part of the ride back by experimenting with taking pics of the soggy landscape through the windows. Some are kind of cool.
I love the whooshing effect on the grasscool treetrunk, plus jacaranda blossoms



accidentally watercolourish:

watercolourish overexposure - wish I could do this on purpose


eep, sucks to be you, dude – big truck, broken down on a blind corner at the top of the range:

big truck, broken down on a blind corner at the top of the range

curvy road

curvy road


these guys are everywhere at rest stops round these parts:

friendly ibis at dusk

Yesterday I finally got my shit together re taking some pics of the spectacularly-coloured flowers out back of Connie’s. Two types, no idea what they are, some kind of lily I assume. Amazing dried seedpods and intensely green spiky ?fruit? too.

outback at connie'soutback at connie's


extremely groovy seedpod thingiesextremely groovy seedpod thingies

tuesdays no more

joy- finished_top … for a while, at least. Joy finished quilting her cushion cover and is very happy with herself. She was dubious about filling the background with little freehand leaves and scribbling in the negative spaces in the border, but it looks great. I’m looking forward to seeing it made up.


chris-closeup Chris is very close to done too. She’s chuffed enough to want to start another one using her dogs as subjects once this one’s done.
chris - 6th lesson

I haven’t done anything interesting the last few days. We went to Port and had lunch in the waterside park today, and met some very friendly birdlife. Friendly, but a bit intimidating when they’re comin right atcha and are taller than you because you’ve sat on the ground to take pics (image messed with in PP because it was impossibly dark) …

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unless you’re el (for whom I suppose stuff Being Bigger is a fact of life and therefore not inherently scary):

el & the big bird