Gardening

A big gardening weekend!
Yesterday, I harvested about 3 or 4 kg of potatoes (kipfler, nicolas and purple) and a good crop of red onions. Pulled out the tomato plants and spread the contents of the compost bins out onto two beds...zoo poo, did for the third!

Today, it was repotting the rhodedendron, with extra drainage holes and crocks at the bottom to improve drainage; planting garlic, shallots and lettuces, and sowing some broccoli, cauliflower and 5 colour silverbeet.

Frustrated that I can't seem to my head around any textile or C&G work at the moment...lots of procrastination going on...

I guess that why...

I guess that's why they call it the blues:

Here are the blue's samples and they've all be sent off, which is a relief!

Puppy School and Cricket

I spent the morning at puppy school, with Kenzie. She was so excited to meeting other puppies and couldn't understand why they didn't want to 'play', as in wrestle, like Angus, our lovable Cocker Spaniel. Given that most of the other puppies hadn't seen another dog since leaving their litter, Kenzie was a bit too OTT!

The afternoon was spent watching Broadmeadows 3rd XI, playing their semi final in the sub-district cricket. Tom only made a couple of runs, but the light was very bad and the storm blew in, about five minutes after he went out. Still, a bit disappointing for him and a wet walk home for me!

More Watercolours...

Here are the latest watercolours (therapy!)...this time yellow:

This last picture is the official Creative Quilting sample page:

I think that they are pretty close to the swatches. The deeper yellow is a little to close to the Windsor Lemon, so I've bought a Cadmium Deep Yellow to have play with.

Tomorrow, I will have the blues...

Watercolour!

Lovely day! Queen Vic Market, this morning, then book buying with Dianne for the school library at The Little Bookroom, in Carlton. It's lovely to go shopping, especially with other peoples' (or in this case, school's) money!

After that, off to the art shop to get some more watercolours. Using Janinka's beautiful samples as inspiration, I began to systematically (as much as you can with watercolour!) mix the colour, with the following results:

I was able to match the colour swatches from the above samples, for the colour RED:

It's not too bad...tomorrow, bring on BLUEs and YELLOWs!!

ACO!

Went to the Australian Chamber Orchestra concert, yesterday, with the lecture by Alex Ross. The lecture was great, ranging from early Spanish music to Led Zepplin and the legendary ( though I know this is heresy, awful) Bob Dylan.

Fiona Campbell's singing was sublime and Richard Tognetti's(?) playing magical.
A lovely Sunday afternoon!

Truffles!

Here are my new pages for the Friday Night Fix:

Do I now have to buy a truffle????

Embroidery hoops

Just a question...

Can anyone tell me the type of embroidery hoop used by Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn in their DVD 'In Action'?

Thanks! :D

Absences...

Been away from the bloggersphere for quite a while...

First, here is Kenzie, the cutest and naughtiest Cairn Terrier puppy in the whole world:

Who would think that a draught stopper could be so useful? We start puppy school next week, though if I had to write her report now it would read 'excellent social skills, though needs to show more respect towards other peoples' and dog's (poooooor Angus!) personal space and limbs!'

On the creative side I've been taking part in Linda and Laura Kemshall's Friday Night Fix. Here are the results after week three:

Linda is right, there is no excuse to do it, as each bit only takes a few minutes and then you go back to it. I do like the red oil pastel with dark green!

Also been dying scarves...this is the one I've been wearing today:

All this play, of course, is to distract myself from the colour mixing (shades and tints) part of Creative Quiltmaking! Very, very scary!!! I will just have to gird my loins this weekend, and get on with it...