Mysolation Mystery Quilt - the flimsy revealed

 I promised you a shot of the finished Mysolation quilt.  So I always keep my promises (kinda mostly).

Do you like it?  

It needs a jolly good press and all the threads removed, but I think overall it's a very nice quilt.

It's very hot today and none of us feel like doing very much.  I've so much to do outside but it's just all too hard.

It's even too hot to sew.  Fancy that.

A wander through another museum

 Hi lovely readers,

We had some time in Adelaide during the week, and the youngest daughter and I had time to kill in Glenelg.

In our strolls, we found a small museum.  You know us and museums.  I took some photos that I thought I'd share with you.

It was only a small museum above the Council Chambers, but it was lovely to visit.  A large part of it was devoted to the original owners of the land and that was very sensitively done, I didn't take photos of that part though.  Glenelg is a beach side suburb of South Australia.

I'm very grateful for local government agencies that do this kind of thing - we only had to pay a voluntary gold coin donation to cover the entrance fee.  It was well worth the price.

Other than that, today's been a stinker, and I've done very little with my time but keep cool.  I see it's snowing over the other side of the world - I hope you are all keeping as warm as you can!

Something new to show you

I've decided this year to commit to the Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilting project.  If you're not familiar with it, it's where you make a block (or quilt) in the colour of the month.  It's a long term thing that was organised originally by a blogger named Superscrappy and each year I think I will contribute, and each year I don't.  

But this year I've started.

The colour is pink for this month.

I've made this star block before and it always works out.  This particular one seems to be a bit choppy, I think I need to work on my colour values a bit more.  I think this would have worked a bit better with more of the same value pink, rather than just any that I could find in the scrap bin.

But I've done Month One.  So yay me!

Mysolation Mystery Quilt Post Three

Continuing on from yesterday, I managed to take photos as I went along with this quilt.  I'm going to have to try and do that more often, I enjoy the process.

There were a few steps to do, and a few of them were interesting - not standard nine patch or things like that.  But as I said yesterday, I just went with what she told me to do, and I think my accuracy greatly improved doing it this way.  I don't get daunted with the complicated stuff because it's broken down into smaller steps and I don't the end result, and I can't get stressed over it.

Once we had all the bits made, I had lots of fun placing them on the design wall to see what the outcome might be.  I was in a facebook group also and everyone else was doing the same.  We all had our steps done up but there were different ways the quilt might end up.

Most of us thought this was the final result.  And if it was to be that design, so be it.  Because I think it looked awesome.  You can't go wrong with black and brights.

Another version here.  I don't like this one as much.  I think I'll stick with the previous design.  

But I still didn't know what was around the corner - I'll show you the reveal tomorrow!

 

Mysolation Mystery Quilt Post Two

As per yesterday's post, given that I had nothing much else to do with my time apart from cooking for husbands and children, I managed to keep up with Rachelle's steps.  

It was great fun, I must admit.  The instructions were very easy to do, and I did find that I was able to do those steps I usually struggle with.  Amazing what a bit of time and going slow will do.

Tomorrow - more sewing to show you!

Mysolation Mystery Quilt Post One

A few months ago, the lovely Rachelle Denneny decided to raise money for a local children's charity by making a mystery quilt for those of us on Facebook that follow her.

South Australia was stuck in its isolation, and she aptly called the design 'Mysolation'.

I was determined to a/ make the quilt and b/keep up with the steps (seriously, what else was I going to do whilst on lockdown) and c/not buy anything, being unable to go to any shops.  They were my challenges.

I shopped my stash, as you can see.  I always have a roll of black homespun in the cupboard, and I found loads of brights - and I was set to go!

I'll show you tomorrow some of my steps!

Out and about in Adelaide

Hi lovely readers,

We recently spent some time in Adelaide, wandering around the city streets.  We are very fond of inner city Adelaide, I'm sure I've bored you with pictures before.  But I thought I'd show you some of our lovely Botanic Gardens.

It was particularly hot the day we went there, but as soon as you walked through the gardens, the temperature lowered dramatically.  It was in the middle of Covid restrictions, but there were many people out enjoying their time there.  I guess outdoors is better than indoors?

Our Botanic Gardens are at the end of North Terrace, which is where you find the University, the Library, the Museum.  All the good buildings!

The wisteria arch had passed its best, but we still enjoyed it.

Have you seen Gloria Loughman's Canopy Quilt?  Think this would make an excellent quilt.

Ivy everywhere.  I don't think Ivy is native to Australia (does anyone know?) but I know it isn't something that grows well in hot, dry South Australia, so seeing it everywhere was wonderful.

Inside the fern house.  It was hot, wet and humid but we loved it.

If I recall correctly, this massive tree is a native that the garden was built around.  Hard to believe there were so many large trees right in the middle of what is now a metropolitan area.

I don't know why I took this photo.  I'm assuming I liked the plant for our garden?  Who knows.

Maybe this pretty purple one was it?  I don't remember.  Menopause is really messing with my memory.  

A lovely little cottage tucked away.  It is now the volunteers building, but it was closed due to Covid.  Was almost Hobbit like.  Of course, we loved it.

So many glorious shades of green in the world.  

Some very tame rainbow lorikeets live in the garden.  They let us get remarkably close, but my camera skills are useless.  I think these lovely birds are a bit special, such vibrant colours.

And that's it, my lovely readers.  Tomorrow I'll show you the art gallery.  Hope you won't be bored.