have a little patience

Gardening is a waiting game

and boy have we waited this year.

The current plant that has me pacing

is the iris in the first picture.

This is my first foray into bearded iris's

The one pictured is supposed to be

Iris Germanica ~ pale blue

somehow I think I have something different.

Wanna sit it out with me?

ps.
My heart flutters when favourite gardeners say selfsown on television x
pps.
forgot to tell you that I have bought two new roses
a lilac climber called veilchenblau
and an old shrub rose called rosa mundi

*geranium ballerina
rosa souvenir du docteur jamain
aquilegia selfsown

wordless wednesday

quilting by numbers

Normal service is resumed!!

My computer that is..not my quilting

that's never normal.

This mini has been living on my lounge floor for a week or two.

Only stitching an hour at a time,

as my shoulder allows.

(rep strain injury)

or 

(epp strain injury!)

I am not actually quilting by numbers

they were a safety net 

before I cut up all those triangles.

As I'm nearing the end

thoughts turn to quilting etc

 Whilst we're on the subject of numbers

my pal Jessica Life under Quilts

has written a sublime book on epp.

It's all about the top of page 48 for me!

More on that later...

Bloggers quilt festival

 I thought I'd like to take part in Amys quilt festival

so I've decided to enter my dappled days

flowering snowball quilt

into the two colour catagory

found here

 This is an English paper pieced quilt

which I appliqued onto the polka dot backing

and learnt how to free motion quilt for the first time.

 The main grey fabrics are from sweetwater 

and the backing was an old sheet.

 I would say it's almost a double quilt

though we have used it this winter on our kingsize bed.

 I had considered hand stitching with perle

but wanted to attempt some fmq...

I may well add to it one day

but for now I'm just enjoying the subtleties of  the restricted palette.

unedited

With my ongoing computer woes

I'm finding less is more.

Without the help of my usual whistles and bells to hand

I'm sharing my snaps 'ala originale'

like a celeb with no make up.

I kinda quite like the quirky aspects,

I do generally find the first photo is the one I go with anyway.

Some of you have asked what I have been up to..

well I have finished hand quilting my snowday quilt

and right now I'm piecing the love/hate painting mini

but as you can see it's all a bit disconnected

a bit like me!

garden specials

 It may as well be April.

The garden is very much a shrub land right now

with the odd bulb giving a glimpse of spring...

 thank goodness for blossom.

I don't really buy magazines anymore,

but like the December issue

the May garden special has become a must.

I find Country Living a bit hit and miss

which is why if an issue disappoints

I can thumb through my old copies.

It may well be raining but with the spring we've had

I just want to be outside....

ps. I have the worst hayfever ever!

when computers go wrong..

So..this year my computer has been slowly dying

I knew it was imminent

so I fortunately had my passwords uptodate...

It does however leave me a little lost.

Computers are a wonderful thing

until they break...

I am now upstairs trying to blog to you via the mans computer

it's all foreign

no photos

big clunky dusty keyboard

and a mouse!

I'm not sure how long this blackout will last

please bare (or is it bear?) with me...

If all else fails there is always facebook maybe?

ps.
I had not realised I was away for so long
apologies for the worry xxx