Wholly Quilts June Newsletter

 

G’day

Now you know it is just not the thing to do to complain about the wet stuff falling on our heads after such a long drought BUT enough is enough. I’ve just had a phone call from Hikuai (you know – over the other side of the hill) wanting to defer tomorrow’s class cos of the rain coming down and the floods coming up. It may well settle down overnight so we wait.

I spent an enjoyable afternoon last week judging the Calling all Quilts exhibition in Hamilton. It always amazes me how beautiful quilts are en masse – seems like the little primitive or first-effort ones shines that much brighter when surrounded by the more colourful and expertly done quilts,

 

Daytime Sew n Soup

Our first go at this last week was a great success with nine little art quilts started on the day. Many of the participants were stretched beyond their normal limits but I look forward to seeing the finished quilts.

I was gonna change to a Friday for this month but have a prior appointment. Am off on a ‘shop hop’ with a group of retreaters on the last Friday of June so will schedule this month’s sew n soup for Thursday June 25. We will tackle the Japanese-style folded flowers.

Phone me to book and get your list of requirements. Cost $15.

 

Pumpkin Patch

My lovely son bought me a new toy last week – a dehydrator. And so far it has been put to great use. I have dried my feijoas and persimmons. I am, as I write, drying a great bunch of stevia. That’s the herbal sugar that tastes remarkably like saccharine and is very good for diabetics.

Last week I went foraging in the disused school grounds over the road – there I found an abundant crop of mushrooms and have been picking them regularly for over four weeks. I have eaten, frozen, given away and now dehydrated mushrooms - an excellent and cheap crop.

While there I discovered that two of the large trees on the old playing field are black walnuts so am now experimenting with them.

A third tree was an old Granny Smith apple tree the fruit off it is now in bottles as the base for my special chilli sauce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

Natalie Murdoch

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