Continuous

A bit of continuous curve quilting on my Christmas tree skirt:

Done between "sparkly-ing" an endless number of bathrooms. Only two areas remain to quilt now; the quilt, unlike the cleaning, is finite. The pink swag at the top left, and the outer ring which is the same fabric in green, are still to do.  

Colac, Winchelsea, Mt Mercer

Colac Quilters' show:

On until Sunday.

It was nice to see some of the quilts on beds, not just hanging.

I was rather taken with this sculpture:

There was no indication of the artist, or the name of the piece. The "knitting" is part of an old metal mesh bed base.

Barwon Park in Winchelsea:

I've never been here before, but I'm sure I've seen this building in TV shows or movies. Today I was attending the display of costumes from the film The Dressmaker.

The costumes are displayed throughout the house. Photos (without flash) were allowed, but most rooms were too dark for me to take flashless photos. This picture of the stairs gives a bit of a feel of the interior of the home of the man who introduced rabbits to Australia!

On the way home, a chance to get a close view of Mt Mercer wind farm:

And find out for myself just how noisy they are. The answer? Not very. Cars going past were much louder. But when there was no other noise, the "woosh, woosh" of the blades could be heard. But I could only hear the one closest to the road. There are 64 turbines in this farm, which together produce enough electricity to power all the homes in Ballarat.

Same, Same, But Different

Much the same as yesterday - some seedlings, some quilting.

Today the Leptospermum lanigerium, Woolly tea-tree, seedlings are popping up:

So now there are only 2 species that haven't shown their faces yet.

And I started the free-motion quilting on my Christmas tree skirt (UFO #14):

Happenings

A bit more germination, although this first one is a little puzzling:

A couple of them have appeared overnight. They should be Leptospermum juniperinum, Prickly tea-tree. But they don't look like the previous example I posted on Monday. Is the first one something else? Time will tell.

This is an Allocasuarina verticillata (stricta), or Drooping she-oak: 

Three of these are up this morning, and I'm happy to say they all look the same.

A little bit of UFO progress:

The Christmas tree skirt layered, pinned then ditch-stitched. And another piece from the same fabric range turned into continuous bias binding for it:

March UFOs

The UFO numbers drawn for March are 4 and 41.

Here's my number four:

It will need some borders before it can be turned into a quilt. For now I have pinned it up to get a good look at it, and decide if I want to add any more of the pentagon or diamond shapes anywhere first.

I'm glad I do not have 41 unfinished projects! But here is number fourteen on my list:

The tree skirt I whipped up in December. I'll need to give it a backing, then quilt and bind it.

Last of Summer

Happy leap day!

This morning I found the first of the TreeProject seedlings are emerging.

Leptospermum juniperinum, Prickly tea-tree:

 Only one of these has appeared so far.

 Dodonaea viscosa, Sticky hop-bush:

A couple of these had emerged this morning, but by evening half a dozen had popped up.

Lastly, very very tiny Melaleuca parvistaminea, Rough paper-bark: 

 Almost impossible to see - even with my reading glasses on I could just see a tinge of green. Had to look at the photo on the computer to confirm that there were actual plants there. I wonder how the ones with a thicker layer of gravel mulch will ever manage to reach the surface?

Inside and Outside

Inside, I reached the end of the basting job:

Hooray! Now we have the loungeroom back.

Outside, the "lawn" had its first haircut:

Maybe over winter some real grass will grow.