August Round Up

 Hello friends. Here we are almost at the end of August. Still supposedly the tail end of winter here in Queensland but temps in the high twenties and low thirties seem to suggest Spring has arrived early. Lots of our native bushes are full of blossom which is very cheery.

My King Orchid has delighted me this year with NINE flower spikes!

I love looking at the myriad of teeny tiny cream orchids that make up the spikes. Nature certainly can succeed in perfection.

With this unexpected rise in temperature I have been caught on the hop with getting my hand quilting on Where We Love is Home completed. So I have been beavering away on it to try and beat the real Summer heat. I suspect that air con will be needed to get to the finish line.

I am on the bottom half now so hopefully I may get there.

I have kept up my Sunday Stitchers WIP which is my Sashiko quilt panel and have only a few more blocks to go.

The latest prompt in ##roxysjournalofstitcheryvol6 "Field Notes " was WILDFLOWERS. This took some pondering as I live on the east coast of Australia. In Western Australia they have stunning wildflowers. So lots of research happened. I wanted to keep the Aussie theme going so my choices were the bright and cheerful "pigface" ground cover that most Aussie beach goers would have seen growing over the sand dunes. It's hot pink flowers are hard to miss. I embroidered the delicate mauve Sun Orchid on the doiley. These are hard to spot but do grow in bushland close by.

The yellow "Billy Buttons " and feathery pink "Mulla Mulla" were added as lovely reminders of our outback trips where we saw them flowering.

I added a little quote about wildflowers to complete it. I absolutely loved stitching this page.

I have had late nights reading....loved them all!

I enjoyed celebrating with Sunday Stitchers friends, Juanita's special birthday down by the Bay. Lovely food, conversation and laughter.

My Grandchildren have kept me busy this month....

Eldest Granddaughter is playing her netball Grand Final tomorrow. Wonderful effort for these great young girls. Some had never played netball before but they have given it their all.

Youngest Granddaughter gathered with other schools in her last Singfest event as she's off to high school......so beautiful to hear those lovely young sweet voices.

Eldest Grandson scrubbed up very handsomely for his school semi formal. Still find it hard to believe. He also had a great first season trying baseball.

Youngest Grandson's basketball team are playing their Grand Final also next week. They have gone through undefeated.

I love watching them in their chosen field of interests and sports. Finally my newest grandchild....of the fur variety just achieves creating puppy chaos and being cute!

So folks that's it from me for August.

Happy stitching and be kind to yourself. 

Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx