My September

September turned out to be a very varied month. After enjoying my holidays, life got back to normal with a vengeance. I came home with an inflamed tendon in my left hand and as I'm ambidextrous, it has caused a bit of a problem. I'm not allowed to do much sewing (on doctor's orders) and a lot of other things have been slower than usual to accomplish.

 

I have done some sewing of hexagons for my tablecloth and have started to huge task of sorting out the sewing room. Greg and I pulled out all the stuff that had been dumped in there over the past few months (it's now cluttering up the dining room while I sort it out). When we first started to set up the sewing room last year we purchased some storage units and bookcases and I am filling them up.

 

The white units with the storage boxes are making things so easy to sort and find as I'm labelling each box with the contents. And the bookcases with the magazine holders have tidied up the massive collection of magazines nicely.

 

During the tidy-up process I came across three more completed quilts, which I've added to my quilt page as well as here.

Tree of Life Lullaby

 

Memories from Wyndham

Crazy Log Cabin

We have just had a long-weekend here in Canberra and we spent the Saturday visiting the Embroiderer's Guild exhibition and the Egyptian Embassy where the Tentmakers of Cairo had a display of their work. It was lovely to see all the embroidery at the Guild show and I picked up a kit on the recycle table which I started and have done just over half of. It's a change from patchwork and I'm really enjoying it.

The front of the cross-stitch kit

The cross stitch in progress

 

I took lots of photos at the tentmaker's display and here are just a few.

 



 

 

Greg and I spent Sunday and Monday working on sorting out the garden bed in the back yard with the fishpond in it. The soil level had dropped and we had pulled out the overgrown mess of iris and rush in the pond itself. The mondo grass at the front of the pond still needs thinning out and the rush and papyrus that has self-set in it needs removing but we simply ran out of time late yesterday to finish it off. I have taken a few photos.

 



The left hand side of the garden bed

The right hand side of the garden bed



A close-up of the pond with goldfish