Textile Fair Purchases and Weird Weather

We had a weird thunder storm this afternoon and the hail rained down on us.  It looked like snow in the midst of the storm!!

Our tank is overflowing after the downpour.  (Photos taken through the fly screen )
Last week I received a lovely card in the mail. It was so nice to get something in the letterbox other than a bill. 

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This is the amazing card I received from Suz from “Suztats”.  Thanks Suz.  The technique Suz used was really interesting and she is still experimenting with others.  You can check it all out on her blog.  Of course, she also does amazing tatting too.


Now the purchases from the textile fair Shirley and I went to in Brisbane on Saturday.  Shirley was very good in keeping me under control and stopping me from spending too much
I bought the beautiful piece of hand dyed cotton sateen from Lisa Walton at Dyed and Gone to Heaven.  Also, some hand dyed scrim/gauze, a bundle of  recycled silk yarn, a jar of lumiere gold just because, and Prudence Mapstone’s freeforming with yarn booklet and the latest Downunder Textile mag. 
Shirley and I both bought some of the glorious wool for some serious and easy wool felting which we saw Jacinta of The Thread Studio demonstrating.  Check out Shirley’s blog and the colours she bought.  We are sharing these and hope to have a wet felting day real soon.  We are itching to do it!!

Autumn / Winter

 

So far we have had a bit of winter weather in autumn and a bit of autumn weather in winter.  It is all a bit topsy turvey  around here and one never knows what to dress in for the day.

Grandad raked the leaves and Lilian had fun helping him.

This type of weather makes us think about food all the time.  Well, it does me anyway.  What better for dinner than a hot steaming beef casserole.  Oooh it was yummy.

The other pastime I am really enjoying most evenings is hand quilting.  My ‘Leaf Flowers’ quilt is coming along nicely and all being well I should have it completed for the Toowoomba Quilter’s  exhibition in September.

Mother Nature - Give us a Break!!!

Our fellow Queenslanders in the Far North of the state are about to experience the worst cyclone in Australia's history. It is expected the eye of the cyclone will pass over them at 11.00pm.
Who would have believed after all the flooding and the devastating  inland tsunami that now our people are facing this next huge disaster.  The cyclone is named 'Yasi' and it is a Category 5 and a very huge system stretching hundreds of kilometres.  The eye of the cyclone alone is approx 70 kilometres.  
Pray no lives will be lost.  There is no doubt that it will cause huge destruction of property and habitat.
You can get some statistics on this web site here.  Very, Very scary.


If you are interested you can read all about 'Yasi' here


We are in the South East of the state, so will not experience it's force, but there may be ongoing rain with it - and that is something we don't need big heaps of right now!!