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Happy Australia Day

these are the chocolates I had to keep me going for FNSI

(now I said I was no desserts, no cakes... nothing about no chocolates)

this is what I finished off last evening

 very happy with my couch's new look

did you notice what is in the corner?

haha... gotta have a spider in the corner for a spiderweb quilt???

53" x 93"

I didn't add wadding.. with the scraps it is quite heavy and I wanted it more of a throw for this purpose....

I did stitch in the ditch to hold it together

if it's not a quilt I wonder if it is called quilting
maybe I just 'throwed' it together

did some wiggle wiggles along the piano key border... I wanted a bit of stiffness to hold the edges down

not the usual bias... I used 2" double fold and then sewed it on the back and folded the whole piece over to the front
(all machine work)

just the last bits done last evening and then I got out the hand sewing.. not much of that done... great game of tennis on the TV

This is another UFO done ... has been in the blocks stage for a while

Wishing you all a lovely weekend, long weekend here in Aus and our rellies arrive on Sunday night

For those who are shared the love about my cleaning frenzy

I share this poem

My neighbour is washing her windows,

And scrubbing and mopping her floors,

But my house is all topsy and turvey,

And dust is behind the doors.

My neighbour, she keeps her house spotless,

And she goes all day on a trot:

But no one would know in a fortnight

If she swept today or not.

The task I am at is enticing –

My neighbour is worn to a rag –

I am making a quilt out of pieces

I saved in a pretty chintz bag.

And the quilt, I know my descendants

Will exhibit with credit to me –

“So lovely – my grandmother made it

Long ago in 1933”.

But will her grandchildren remember

Her struggles with dirt and decay?

They will not – they will wish she had made them

The quilt I am making today.

Elizabeth Ryan DeCoursey

(Thanks to my friend Helen who sent me this...)

Righto, Gotto Go... Australia Day to enjoy (widget's coming to play)