It's been a great time and I've enjoyed:
Having the big boy back for a break from Uni in NZ
Walking with the family in the beautiful Grampians National Park in Victoria
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Also on the menu has been a bit more interesting cooking without the usual time pressure, and making the most of winter warming type dishes.
A Moroccan recipe book is currently undergoing a renaissance in our house.
This tagine uses chicken and preserved lemons. Our friend Nigel laid down the lemons for us, from the plethora on our tree, when he was staying earlier in the year. This tagine recipe uses two preserved lemons, quartered; which made it pretty lemony. Delicious! Green olives were called for and these gorgeous buttery sicilian olives are my current favorite and complemented the lemons well.
On the sewing front, having finally finished the trimming, I have been fiddling with triangle placement.
I'm going around in circles a bit (so to speak!) with all the possibilities that value differences create. I quite like the zigzag pathways happening here, but have toyed with both something more random and something more regular. But I think I'll save the regular pattern I have in mind for more scrappy fabric. A few things jumped out at me from this photo that I have since changed (e.g. the matched large green triangle near the centre bottom). But I'm not sure how I'll ever finish fiddling with it?
I've rigged up a temporary design wall in the absent Uni boy's room, (but never fear, it's not a bathroom yet- in-joke for those that know that Australian ad!) over the top of his notice board and I must say it's GREAT to be able to leave the pieces up and muse on it!
I've also ordered some fabric online... and have been pondering my blue and purple improvised squares and trying to figure out how best to piece them into the background...I decided on aqua in the end.
I have done some work in the "real job" too, so you can see I've been relaxed but not idle!
I'm not sure what's more stunning, the gorgeous views or that triangle quilt! My only comment is that it seems darker overall toward the bottom of the quilt, but perhaps that was just the lighting when you took the photo? Love it!
ReplyDeleteI have never seen the Grampians but they are stunning! Are they ancient volcanic rocks? How hard are they to walk in? My three kids are 4,7 & 8. And we are hoping to do our local Mt. Warning in the new year.
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