We cancelled our holiday plans earlier this week due to all the flooding thats happening at the moment. Our first week away was to be spent at Echuca on the Murray River as we had not visited that area before. Right now its in record flood and clearly it's not the place for tourists. Theres also been flooding in Tasmania and with more rain predicted for the next 6-8 weeks we decided it was better to cancel and we'll wait until next year to do another trip.
My back is much better so I've been able to get back to my sewing the last few days. I completed another Summer in the Country block - Geese Pond
I started working on another block and then just like that, I felt like I need a break from it, I still like it but I'm tired of working on it. So I changed the block to finish it up quickly...
... then I joined up a heap of triangle scraps to make another block quickly
... played around on the design wall for a while ...
... and then packed it all away for later.
My sewing room is quite a mess! I really need to do some serious stash busting and get some projects quilted and finished. I keep 5" blocks in these two drawers, mostly kids prints, & they are stuffed completely full so I decided to make some more children's blocks as they are fun and easy.
I use a disappearing nine patch pattern, put a picture block in the corners and bright colours around it and then cut.
... and these blocks will end up in eye-spy quilts.
On the decluttering front I've done all but one cupboard in the kitchen and got rid of a lot of excess stuff. It's good to open the cupboard now and not feel its all going to fall out. Next big job is cleaning out the pantry/storeroom.
Right now it's raining heavily again so its back to sewing machine for the afternoon. Apparently it's going to rain most of the summer - our third El Nino summer downunder. How is the weather where you are is it different to the usual season?
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