The Hell and Damnation Quilt!

Photo of our house for Debby,and below, the design of the William Morris (Heritage) quilt.  Debby -  that is the weekend  after we moved in, 4 yrs ago.  I still hate that chocolate brown paint.  This is the year to change it to something brighter.  There is an awful lot more in pots and planted there now.   Below, a couple of years later, in summer, taken from up on the bank.

Now I can't find these photos again. This computer's driving me nuts!

 

 

As for this blardy quilt, it's nearly putting me off quilting for life. Whoever planned it, has used such ridiculous measurements and once again, when I HAVE finished a block, it is 11 1/2" or 113/4" and not 12".  I worked on the easier block last night and this morning (this is the four patch corners/centre one), concentrated hard, cut and sewed accurately, but no . . . it's still too small.  Morning's Minion kindly worked and and shared her measurements for the other block, but it is a 9" block and I don't know how to scale it up.  I had planned to go and lay it all at the feet of Alex (patchwork teacher) today, but the class wasn't being held.

Below, note points cut off on first practice block and the blocks around the 4-patch blocks are wrongly placed as they should form a star. These will end up as cushion covers.  I sewed these weeks ago now.

It's very windy today, so I haven't gardened either, but I DID go to the Tip with a big boot load of rubbish, and drove on to the small garden centre near X-gates, looking for rose supports, but nothing doing and so I just bought two half price terracotta pots and a red Saxifrage.

After lunch I fell asleep for the length of 2 Time Team programmes.  Not enough water drunken today, plus a carby lunch, and I woke at 4.50 a.m. and didn't sleep after that.  Now I feel groggy.

Work in the garden has gone well, though I can't share photos as they've not been loaded.  I discovered that this is because  the port on the left side has now died and must have been dodgy when loading the holiday ones.  I will try again with the new computer.

I've nearly finished edging and weeding the gravel arc  by the Rhododendrons, and planted the Armeria (Sea Thrift) there.  I've just about finished weeding and de-leafing the main bed and will plant the new rose tomorrow. I'm going to put the Hollyhocks in the new and one older terracotta pot out in a little group in the yard, where they will appreciate the sun.

Then I shall get my stitch ripper out . . .