The reveal of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt Frolic has occurred and I was able to lay out the pieces I had finished. However I had to quickly make a set of flying geese with pink and blue wings. The last set of instructions includes cutting white squares and piecing the corners, but the blocks are set on point.
Then progress stalled as I wrote three job applications and packed to go on holidays. I did pack my hand sewing but did not get it out of the bag once!
So I was keen to sew when we got home, hence one block got made up. And now I have to suck it up and piece and trim parts before I cam make pretty blocks! The heatwave weather is perfect for piecing, but we will see how far I get.
We had a lovely family holiday in Robe, a small beachside town in South Australia. It was a lovely social relaxing time, but the weather was not what you would call hot...barely warm on the good days.
Hubby and I might look wind swept, here but let me assure you it was a heck of a lot windier at times! Some of the tenting campers packed up and went home early - we have a pop up (the beds slide out under canvas) caravan and it did ratting a few nights, but it stayed up and kept us dry when it rained!
My two boys, two years apart and now about 2 cm height difference....fingers crossed Mr 13 has a growth spurt this year or Mr 11 is going to overtake him and squash his big brothers ego!
In order to make sure the boys could actually get in the water for more than 15 minutes, we purchased wetsuits so they could boogie board in comfort! The two days it did rain were spent playing card games, reading, playing on the flying fox and jumping pillow and in the indoor pool in the caravan park - the kids had a ball! I had a surfing lesson on one of the "bad" weather days and in a full wet suit it was surprisingly comfortable. Trying to get up on the surfing board was not comfortable but it was good fun! So now I can tick that experience off my bucket list, LOL!
Back home and back to a heatwave, but rest assured in a very small caravan that qualifies as a glorified tent I was secretly pleased we had more bad weather than heat!
Happy quilting, Sue.
Sounds like a lovely holiday! Do people mistake your boys for twins?
ReplyDeleteThe Frolic block looks good!
What, not photo of you surfing?? Truth be told, I prefer the beach in the cooler weather also, especially in a caravan.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great holiday! We always camped with a pop-up with our family, too. I remember once by a lake in Alberta Canada, the wind was so bad we couldn't pop it up. We ended up totally changing our itinerary to get out of the wind.
ReplyDeleteYour boys do look like twins. My youngest passed up his older brother and now (in their 30s) he has a good 5 inches on him. Older brother is not "big" brother anymore. :)