Friday, April 01, 2011

Wholly Quilts

Wholly Quilts April Newsletter

G’day
White rabbit! White rabbit! White rabbit! Isn’t that what we used to say on the first of the month and I think April 1st deserves triple mention.
Last month I spent some quite special time with my good quiltie friend Barbara Bilyard before her passing on the 18th. What a great loss to quilting in this country – Barb was at the first symposium in Auckland, won an award at the first quilt exhibition in 1990 and has passed on her knowledge to a great many of us over the intervening years. Her quilts and life were full of colour – go well my friend.
These days I am finishing off the year-end books, stock-taking and trying to finish a quilt for the tutors’ exhibition in Queenstown. I can’t believe that is only a couple of weeks away. I must be having fun!

The first of the Leaf Project is out there and the second lesson ready to go early next week. Still time to join in and catch up.
The Turquoise Sherbet BoM is also into the second month and I have quite a few of the first month to cut and catch up on so you can join with that too.

April’s Fabric Special: I have packs of beautiful jewel-coloured batiks – 18 fat quarters (4.5m) for just $70 each including post and packaging.

It’s a sad time in the Pumpkin Patch. In the last couple of days I have picked the last handful of strawberries and eaten them for breakfast; stripped the grape vine and made juice; picked and pickled the last of the main crop of figs; dried the last of the tomatoes; given away the last of the beans; frozen the passionfruit and shaken my head at the weeds. Mind you the feijoas, persimmons and tamarillos – oh and the pomegranates - are still to go so all is not lost – or should I say eaten. And I still have potatoes, carrots, beetroot, aubergine (my spell check tells me this should be aborigine so maybe I had better call them egg plant), chilli and capsicum to go along with lots of green stuff.



Regards
Natalie