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Quilts

My quilts for sale in my Etsy shop “QuiltedCloth”.

Low volume colors.
Tumbler block charm quilt.
Bright and bold.
A fabulous bright and bold charm quilt, twin size.
Bright and bold Baby.

Bright and bold baby charm quilt.

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Kitties

Poppet
She likes to spent the spring and summer outside.
Breeze.
Don’t be waking me up.
It’s too bright, close the curtains and let me sleep 💤

Slim Pickings, he’s getting old so spends a lot of time sleeping 😴

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Chooks

Alex, a friend is moving back to France and has given me all her chickens!

New additions to the place.
I cleared out an old shed.
Built some perches and a place for laying eggs. I have still to add the straw.
Made them a ladder out of some posts and small branches from a fallen tree.
I was very happy to manage to fit a door to the hen house for night time safety.
Then cleared the rubble from the rest of the old shed and made it into a good sized run for them to use until they can roam free.
I used the cat travel boxes to pick them up.
First day eggs!!! So cute, omelette for supper tonight!

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Sister

My sister Susan came foe a visit.

We went on lots of walks.
The weather was fabulous.
Teal blue sea.
White sands.
But still chilly 🥶
Starfish
Beautiful skies.

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Compost from the Kommune!Free!

My friend Alex took me to the recycling centre and showed me where to get compost free!

At the recycling centre there is bundles of it.
I don’t have a trailer so used tubs and buckets!
Alex also gave me an old table made with an old pedal sewing machine legs, I’m going to give it a new top and paint the sides.
Buckets of compost
I will plant onions in this bed.
Onion bed and potato beds.
Lots of old straw from the chicken shed.
The last of the potatoes went in these tubs recycled from the pig farm.
Chooks eyeing up the beds!
More potatoes, pink fir apple in these beds.

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Other activities around the place

Mini pools up!
Looks inviting, but let me tell you it freezing!
This is Noodles the barn cat, he’s so adorable but very independent this is about as close as he gets. I keep him fed and watered, I would love to do more for him but he is impossible to catch and seems very happy. I sneak worming tablets etc into his food.
The chooks having an explore.
A jacket I am up cycling for fun, I want to add some embroidery and more patchwork.
A super cute sewing machine cover I made using a pattern from Rainbowhare on Etsy.
In my spare time I’ve been making this quilt, it’s from a pattern from a fabulous Australian quilter, Bec Brennan,
https://sewbehome.com/
I machined pieced it and also did the appliqué by machine using a blanket stitch and heavy thread.
I E2E quilted it on my Longarm using a pale pink thread.
I used a thrifted duvet cover on the back, it’s a great way to get fabric big enough for the back and it’s usually a fabulous price to boot, and you are also giving to a good cause.

I used leftover fabric from another quilt and also a bundle of pink owls and flower fabric from Take Now a loopy (flea ) market in Grenaa at a great price.

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Planting tatteies and cleaning the mini poly tunnel.

I needed to clear out some of the topsoil from the tunnel, so I planed tattles in the raised beds around it and put the excess soil on the top along with a load of old straw from the barn.

I can’t make up my mind about the chicken hut, leave it inside or outside?

Now I just have to dig over the tunnel and add some compost ready for tomatoes and other summer crops.

I made another couple of raised beds now I need to find some soil for them.

It’s still flooded at the bottom of the garden it’s completely unusable.

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Slim Pickings

Slim Pickings is getting older
He sleeps a lot in all the cosy corners
But he is still young at heart
Playing a lot with Breeze
Teasing him
Taking over Breezes house!
Snuggle together
Helping mummy to take photos of quilts.
Giving out good advice to Breeze, “don’t try it Mummy won’t like it”!

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Spring walks.

Blue skies
Hazy morning
Foliose Lichen
European Speedwell
Fallen flower heads from the tree above.
Common Duckweed
Plum blossom
Reindeer
Willow
Newly sown field
Blackthorn
Willow blossom
Wood Anemones and Lesser Celandine in the woods.
Junk
More junk
Cherry Plum
Wood Anemone

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More snow!

You can’t see the snowdrops for the snow.
It only lasted one day but it was lovely.
Looks nice on the baby trees.
The chooks said, now way are we coming out and they stayed in all day!
Breeze said , no walks for me today.

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Spring cleaning.

I don’t live by the sea, a bird must have dropped this beautiful shell.
Breeze, first day out.
The snowdrops arrived later than usual but are a lovely.
Chooks
Clearing the flower beds, the small one next to the door I have cleared completely and will sew grass seed as it was too full of weeds to manage.
All the hops and other climbers were blown down over the winter, I spent the afternoon cutting and clearing them.
Pile of cuttings
There is still a lot of water lying, worst year for flooding
Some quilting

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Breeze

Growing up but still a bit silly.
Simply adorable.
Early morning activities.
My toes are not safe when he decides to get under the covers!
His safe place.
Well, almost!
There is just no peace and quiet around here anymore!
Sometimes there is.