FNwF- 8th May

Another week gone and it was back to Cheryll's for the second FNwF this month; thank you for inviting us again, Cheryll, you get us thinking about our friends around the world, crafting away.

I must come clean - there was no clever "needle" stuff going on here. Friday was a perfect day here, warm without being too hot, with just a light breeze. DH and I lit the BBQ for two and spend the evening chilling out outside; it was the first real summer evening this year. I finished reading another book, second one that week.

But during the week I did finish the block I was working on last week,

and I made another one. 

I am not sure where this is going, 

but for now I am just enjoying making them.

It is the bluebell time over here, but this year we are not able to drive anywhere to see them,

so I recycled pictures from previous years, also to use as a new header.

You can at least see what I am talking about, in case you haven't seen this wonderful display before. It is rather special time in England at this time of year.

There is more and more colour coming through in our little patch -

foxgloves and spring irises,

and the first clematis blossom.

Keep well and healthy!

It will be over one day...............

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FNwF

Firstly I hope that all of you are well and in good spirit; I say that because it occasionally plays with my mind, and I know I am not the only one. 

So, it was back to Cheryll's on Friday evening, 

thanks again for getting us together, Cheryll!

I realised that this is my first blog post since last month's get together! At the star of the lock down 

I imagined that I will spend so much more time online, but until last weekend we had a really glorious weather, and DH and I just moved outside, to our tiny garden and just vegged out there, reading, planting plants arriving by post, having the occasional BBQ, or just simply doing nothing, enjoying the sunshine. The time has flown by, and here we are, in May! The weather changed this week, some very welcome rain for the garden at last, so back indoors....

I haven't been doing very much sewing; I am in my "reading mode" right now - I got through 3 books last week and now I have another one on a go.

I haven' been totally idle though. 

The Les Fleurs du Mardi (Tuesday's Flowers) quilt is hanging on our dining room wall at the moment, and as I am looking at every day, I have wondered how some of those blocks would look in different fabrics. And that's the thing about quilts - you could make the same quilt several times, in different fabrics and every time it would be a totally different quilt.
If you scroll down to the 4th April post, you can see the original quilt.

I have no intention of re-doing the hole thing, but I have been playing with some of the 10 inch blocks from the original quilt, just to see....

I am using fabrics from my stash.

And this is the latest one I have started on Friday.

As I said, I am not planning to re-do the whole quilt, possibly just 4 - 6 blocks, just playing 😀

With some rain this week, our garden let out a sigh of relief and got much greener.

The new quince tree in a pot is doing well, I love its blossoms, so pretty.

Pretty white anemone,

 Camassias are looking good this spring too.

 

White Deutzia is in full swing; there is a pink one next to it just waiting to start flower too.

I don't know what made me to plant two Deutzias next to each other, but they don't flower exactly at the same time, the pink one is later one, so that' OK.

This yellow poppy

appeared last year, must had flown in from elsewhere, and this year is coming up all over the place, we don't mind of course.

I love these Epimmediums, we grew them in pots last year, but I think they will do much better planted out; most of them are evergreen and make a good ground cover, with delicate little flowers in the spring and lovely colourful leaves in the autumn.

A new addition this spring, a new shade of candelabra primula.

Another Epimedium, I just love their leaves.

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