HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!! - 2 Months and a few years late!!

Finally Mum's Birthday Cross Stitch is finished!! I chose this cross stitch for my Mum’s birthday as it has everything that represents her hobbies, sewing, quilts, knitting even an African violet.

I won’t let on how many years it took but let’s put it this way it took Julia Child 7 or so years to write her "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and I put just as much care and attention into my cross stitch masterpiece for my lovely Mum!!

The cross stitching took lots of summer holidays with so much fine detail.

Every inch seemed to add another aspect to the picture.

Finally it was on to the back stitching.

Check out the fine detail on this Quilt.

Hey quilter do you think you can make one of

these for mum's wall. :-)

Check out the real tassels "How Neat is that?"

Tiny little charms just add to the charm!

So pleased to have it finished for you Mum! You are worth every single stitch!

Hand lacing took most of the afternoon and now it is off at the framers.

Can't wait to give it to Mum.

Lots of the Love

xx The Gardener xx

Noodle Roll for Quilters!

This is a quilt roll I made in my quilting class. It has a felt side underneath which you place your unfinished blocks on so you can roll them up and protect them in between working on them. A close up of my quilting blocks - I got this material in a little bundle from the

2009 Sydney Quilt Fair...

Close up of the body of the roll...

Here are some little ladybirds and butterflies with button heads...I made the tassel as well with twists of embroidery thread so that the colours would match right...


Love the Quilter xxx

CHRISTMAS BAKING 2009

Better late than never is the Gardeners motto so the Christmas baking is finally going on the blog. A traditional Pecan pie made from scratch and baked on Christmas eve was just divine.

A 70% Cocoa Dark Chocolate Torte with Fresh Raspberry Coulis was amazing! One of the best desserts I have ever made. It also froze well and is quite delish eaten frozen!!
xx The Gardener xx

CHRISTMAS LUNCH 2009

Christmas was a beautiful hot day and perfect for a summery feast.

Handmade bagels

Asparagus Rolls and pretty club sandwiches

Supreme Cheese Moon

Summer fruit platter

Home made Fruit Cakes and Mini Chocolate Cakes to top things off!

xx The Gardener xx

Balloon Christmas Wreaths

To make things a little different this year I put together a balloon Christmas wreath, complete with Christmas Bear :-)

Love the Quilter xxx

Sewing Machines

This is for the my sewing sisters.

In cardiff a fancy clothes shop chose to decorate it's window with antique sewing machines, they had singer machines there too!

The funny thing was that a great number of people were stopping to see the machines but none of them were the type who would wear the clothes being sold in the store (including me!)

Hopefully they don't decide to give it up for a window decoration that attracts there customers they want instead.

B

Happy Pig

Hi

I had to add this even if it isn't strictly baking.

We went to a mock village of medievel times and this was this little pig's home. In fact she shared it with two others and none of them were that little. She was at least over a metre long and so big it would take all of your arms to hug her.

She was still very cute though :)