New studio, and SAQA blog hop

I have started moving things back into my SMALLER sewing studio.

stage 1.

Red book case ready

First was the pellon added to the cupboard doors to remake my design wall -

Design wall

The edges of the pellon on the doors will lay flat after a while.  I now realise I should have painted the knobs as well as the cupboard !

Then can the pine shelves which also had a new coat of paint -

Essentials within easy reach

Looks very tidy today…

Only works in progress

Next job will be the bookcase, getting the boxes out of storage in the shed and weeding very hard.  I don’t want to end up with the book piles on the floor that I used to have.  The room is now too small for ANY clutter!  which means that I have to try very hard to be tidy (big grin) ! People who know me know that is a big ask.

It will take the next couple of weeks at least to get everything into its proper places and I can really start working properly in my creative space.

I’m a member of SAQA (Studio Art Quilters Associates)-Oceania group.  We are having a Studio Blog Hop every second day for the month of May.  I am at the bottom of the list so I can have time to get my studio space back into action.

Here is the list of blogs, do visit and see what we are all doing -

1 May   Mel Forrest

3 May  Sue Dennis

5 May  Lisa Walton

7 May  Linda Robertus

9 May  Dale Rollerson

11 May  Averil Stuart-Head

13 May  Beth Miller

15 May  Sally Westcott

17 May  Ali George

19 May  Pam Holland

21 May  Felicity Clarke

25 May  Alison Lawrence

27 May  Jenny Bowker

29 May  Sue Domeney

Mothers Day Classic Walk and food

Sunday was very fresh, a cool 5 degrees when I left home with Mr. 8, (grandson) to join his older brothers in the 4km walk in Hobart, their mum was running in the 8km run.

The 8km run, 4km run and 4km walk are a fund raiser for Breast Cancer Research, held annually on Mothers Day all over Australia in major cities and towns.  There were over two thousand in the Hobart event.

We completed in just under the hour.  Very invigorating.  Here’s some of the crowd waiting for the runners to finish.

13 May 2012 Hobart

Not the best photo, taken with my phone.

Home after the healthy walk to find a box of chocolates

Even the box is chocolate

I’ll have to ration it out, can’t undo all the good work from the walking, now can I?

Tried a new recipe for potato flatbreads, see Kanerva.  My oven was way too hot and I had to remove them after 7 minutes as they started to burn – still a bit undercooked in the middle.  I’ll try some again sometime, they are a good accompaniment with my thick winter soup that I make frequently.

potato flatbreads

This post was written on Sunday evening and forgot to actually publish it, only one word changed -  the first one, from “this” to “Sunday”. I’ll have something else later today when I finish writing it.

 

May Day

May Day.

May Day

May Day, 1st May, has long been celebrated as the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day , while in many other countries it has been celebrated as the International Workers Day, see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day .

My Muse for May looks to me a lot like the image of Lady Guinevere in the first wikipedia reference above -

My Muse for May

Have a great day wherever you are, just celebrate for no particular reason.

I will have some textiley things to show again soon, my workroom is taking shape at last !!

AQC, Island Quilts and the Hungry Caterpillar

AQC, Island Quilts and the Hungry Caterpillar.

AQC, Island Quilts and the Hungry Caterpillar

Easter seems such a long time ago when I posted last.  Here are a few photos to illustrate what I have been doing -

First was my week at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, in Kay Haerland’s master class – Creating a Realistic Landscape -

Kay Haerland's Realistic Landscape class, my quilt in top row third from right

My unfinished landscape

When I came home I had to sort out my computer which was “not responding” just about every time I wanted to open a file.  Then it was time to go to Launceston for the Tasmanian Quilting Guild’s exhibition “Island Quilts” in Launceston, (tomorrow is last day if you still want to go), where I was honoured to be one of the two Tasmanian judges with Faye Cunningham from Melbourne as the main judge.  Here is the Best of Show for 2012 -

Best of Show 2012
Black Holes - the Milky Way
by Marlene King

Early in the week I had a chance to visit the grandchildren in Smithton, where Toby finally received his Hungry Caterpillar quilt -

Toby and his caterpillar quilt

Back home and the mild autumn we have been experiencing lately seems to be making way for winter.  I can hear the snow rumbles – sounds just like a thunderstorm without the lightning and rain – and the temperature has dropped.  About time to get out the winter woollies again.

Birthdays celebrations

I’ve had a great weekend, 2 days of celebrating my birthday.  I had thought that this one would pass almost unnoticed as I let it be known that I wouldn’t be home on the day – I planned to be on Bruny Island for the Bruny Easter Chopping Carnival and Market day.  My family thought otherwise.

After a lovely day on Bruny, despite the onset of winter, and meeting and chatting with lots of friends there

At Bruny Market

I arrived home in time for a great evening.  As it was Saturday, the children opted for their usual Saturday night of home-made pizza and watching movies

Saturday night at the movies

while the adults dined in peace.

Then today, we had an inside barbecue away from the weather followed by cutting the cake.

Tenth photo to get this one

It was the biggest Black Forest Gateau I’ve ever seen -

It's only a small slice

and even more chocolate to eat -

One phone is made of chocolate !

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