Peaceful Friday

I made this cushion several years ago, the kit was a gift. Not my usual colours but soft and pretty, and I agree with the sentiment; I have been told it's from a quote by Homer (the Greek bloke, not the Simpson one).

Thanks to the lovely folk who have been so encouraging about my green quilt. Meggie asked if I was using my domestic, yes indeed. I am quilting it on My Lovely New Bernina Virtuosa 160 (which is now nearly ten years old), and it's doing a great job. I have been busy for the last few days so haven't gotten back to quilting the borders but it will be done soon. Today is not looking good either, but you never know. I am off to the shops soon to buy supper for the music club tonight - I don't mind being the supper shopper because I get to pick the chocolate biscuits and cake I like!

Today is Kevin's last day at work for ever. Tomorrow he will be a retired Olde Pharte like me. It will be strange having him around all the time, of course we have had holidays together but that's not the same, as holidays end and then we go back to work. And we will be sharing one car, because for some years now the car that Kevin drove belonged to the company for whom he worked. I bought my own little car in....oh, must have been late 1974, maybe early 1975......we have had two cars since then, except for when our sons were living at home when we had three or four cars in our driveway and on our front lawn. It did get crowded at times. Kevin plays lawn bowls every weekend which is almost sacred to him, but I pointed out that there might be times when I have something that is sacred to me too (like quilt guild, or a music club gig) and need the car to get there; public transport where we live isn't great, to say the least. Can't see me walking 20 minutes to the train station carrying a fairly heavy guitar in its case, and a music stand and guitar stand, then trudgeing up and down the station steps, changeing trains (more steps) and then walking home again. I would be too knackered to play a note by the time I arrived at the gig. Compromise will have to be the order of the day.

No doubt all will be well in the end.

Now I am off to the shops to buy cake for tonight, probably chocolate cake, because chocolate makes nearly everything seem right.

Jennifer

Asking for help

Dear fellow bloggers, many of you are far more technologically minded than I am. (that's not difficult) I would like to put a picture on my sidebar with a link to the tutorial for the folded star trivet I posted in December, and I cannot for the life of me work out how to do it. My brain has been fried by the heat so I am working with less functioning brain cells than usual. If anyone could help me I would be very very grateful. I would be full of grate.

This is one of the cushions I have been propping under my injured foot (which, by the way, isn't quite right yet - I bumped it in the shower this morning and it told me quite firmly not to do that). I bought the tea-dyed stitchery several years ago from a shop in Queensland, used a deep red for the embroidery then framed it with a tiny strip of green to match the green in the Aussie wildflower print that I used for the rest of the cushion. The old house looks like so many that are still around in country districts - it wouldn't be trendy enough for city folk, but I like them.

Now I am going to move My Lovely New Bernina into the lounge room which has air-con, and work on my latest bag.

Jennifer