Mini Quilt

'Honey'






I'm still quite unsettled healthwise and have recently mostly taken photos around the house and garden, made quickie mosaics from them in Picasa, half heartedly done cross stitch, and generally messed about.
Photos are in Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/23261611@N04/

Then I came across some lace motifs, found other bits and pieces and enjoyed making this mini quilt which I may frame ....
Hopefully I'll be less lethargic this week.

Breakfast

Apricot Scones






Inspired by libbyquilter to make scones for breakfast!
www.flickr.com/photos/28992970@N02/3450869687/
As I used a quickie guess, mix , pat flat and cut recipe they have not risen a lot - but taste OK!

Wild Violets

This morning I found wild violets behind our compost bin, picked a few, and left lots to seed for next year. I took photos and made yet another mosaic - one of my favourite relaxations.
Helga saw it on Flickr and asked to use it as a header on her blog.
http://murgelchen94.blogspot.com/
As it looks nice there I decided to use it for a while - I had to change the template too to show it to best advantage.
Well, I always enjoy playing about!
But why do many templates leave such wide margins at each side - I'd rather have more width in the blog .....

Another Easter comes and goes!

I have lots of flowers but I love small posies from the garden and can't resist making mosaics.
It's been an unsettled week having heard that more investigations are needed into hips, back - and now Aorta, so once more it's wait for appointments ....
....adding to my frustration the PC was down for five days, always a difficult time!
Well it gave me time to do a therapeutic cross stitch border on the twee Easter picture I made some years ago.
I hope all my friends have had a peaceful and Happy Easter.

This week .....
I've been feeling sorry for myself, with pains here and there, where pains shouldn't be!
Not to worry though, the lilies from Mother's Day started to open - beautiful and with a lovely perfume, I enjoyed flower stitching on buttons from a tutorial I came across, I sent a ribbon stitched ATC and a doodle Postcard to friends...


... and my 20th picture has gone into Flickr Explore ....
so really all is well!
The button tutorial is at http://karensouth.blogspot.com/2009/01/attach-button-making-flower.html (I did French Knots instead of adding beads.)

On my desk ...


Nicholas Culpeper
(1616-54)
published "The Complete Herbal" in 1653.


My edition, my oldest book, is "Brook's Culpepper's Herbal Improved" - presumably originally owned by Charles Cottrell Junior, as he has signed his name on several pages, but I don't know who he was. I had it from my aunt years ago.
Second edition by Richard Brook, exact date not known, c1850.
It has 30 colour plates,428 pages of plant descriptions and herbal remedies, plus Index of Plants, Index to Remedies and Medical Preparations, and Index to Diseases.
....... a great read!
For kootoyoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-my-desk-players.html

Gorgeous Roses for Mother's Day

A beautiful bouquet arrived this afternoon so I thought I would have a few pics here for a few days ....

...... my week .....

This week has been quite a mixture of things -
Jane & Joseph brought a lovely bouquet of tulips to cheer me last weekend as I had not been well for several days ...
Friends Sue & Maureen came on Tuesday and we enjoyed playing with Tyvek - the mosaic shows a few details.
They gave me the silk butterfly, bead motif, and fusible ribbon, nice with the Tyvek pieces I made, but I haven't done anything with them yet ....
Wednesday was exciting - my new sewing machine arrived so I have been playing with it since - again nothing seriously made yet ...
Thursday I had results of hip x-ray and Doc said it seems probable both hips need replacing - so that's likely to cause disruption in the months ahead - but I'm sure I'll be delighted when I am more mobile!
Today I did a bit of stitching on a picture I'm hoping to finish for my cousin's birthday and took some photographs of the tulips before they fade ..... another week gone!

Cross Stitch framed with fabrics

I have lots of small cross stitch pictures tucked away, never used and I've enjoyed adding fabric frames and showing details in this mosaic. The daisy with french knots is a favourite but it needed an uplift which I think the fabric has given it - now it will be tucked away again!
The pansy is now a Post Card.

Post Card - "Flower Patch"

Printed patch fabric, machined, hand stitched, & beads added.
6x4lives group monthly personal challenge, for March.
and for kootoyoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-my-desk-players.html