Crafty people

 I find myself surrounded by talented people who are so very generous. Recently I took along my attempts at Japanese Meshwork to our Simple Living Toowoomba group and one of our ladies who presents sewing workshops along with her sister offered to finish the items off as I am quite 'straight line challenged'. 

Well, she did a lovely job and the colours fit in with my white kitchen with green splashback and red accessories. 

I really have trouble with sewing on binding but Neralie is an expert at it and she said she would finish the items off in no time.....

...whereas I would still be procrastinating after putting the meshwork away in a drawer waiting for 'some day' when I would finish it off. LOL!

This was my first successful attempt at weaving the tumbling blocks out of bias binding I had made myself. The binding doesn't need to be cut on the bias for this but it does use up a lot of fabric as quite a bit of binding is required. If you ever try this craft remember that the third part of the weaving is the hardest as it gets hard on your eyes. You will know what I mean if you have a go but it is all worth it in the end. Neralie also tried it out after finishing off my meshwork and, of course, produced lovely items but she used fabric that didn't fit in with her colour theme so gave them away to one of my friends in our simple living group. 

This is the back of the pink and green one.

I also have a friend who is an expert at knitting socks and she never amazes me as she can hold a conversation and not even look at what she is knitting. She is also very generous with sharing her knowledge. 

Then yet another friend painted these lovely birds to go with a birdie plant waterer for my recent birthday. I couldn't even paint a stick figure so I am quite happy to receive such a lovely present. 

Our city's annual Carnival of Flowers will be held from the 1st-30th September so do come along and visit our beautiful gardens if you are visiting our region. My hubby and I checked out the gardens in Queen's Park last Saturday and wondered why some of the gardens were being protected and not others. We asked one of the gardeners and he said there were possums in the tree nearby and they invade this particular garden and not so much the others. 

After some bitterly cold and windy days we are back to normal winter weather with cold mornings and warm, sunny days which I like much more than the rainy weather we had for weeks. Many towns have been flooded a few times so I am sure everyone is enjoying being able to dry everything out. We are forecast to have a wet Spring so I hope that forecast is incorrect.

Have a great week everyone!