March 2019 Photo Hunt

Ignore the above photo!  I'm trying to get the link up tool to use the above photo....

Hard to believe it is that time again. 

I was stuck for ideas so one rainy morning I sat myself down at my computer and 5 minutes later I was sorted!  So a stern word to one's self can work!

Once again thanks to Hawthorn for organising us all.  Click here to see her photos.


1   Flat

Flat naan breads I make.....  I'm not too fond of shop bought ones and they are too big.

Mine are just the right size!  They freeze well too.

2   Wheel

My colour wheel.....

I did think of a cheese wheel but I don't have one!

Now if I'd been to see the Falkirk Wheel....  

3   Swing

A swing bridge over the Leeds-Liverpool canal; Beloved is swinging away.....

Taken years ago when our friends had a canal boat moored in Silsden.

Somewhere I do have an ornament of a chicken sitting on a swing but I could not find it!

4   Ragged

This is the first quilt I made in the early 1990s.  It covers the arm chair

Beloved sits on.  The fabric is getting thin as you can see in the top

two photos.  To replace that piece of fabric I had to take the whole

quilt apart!  Luckily I'd only tied the corners of each fabric block

rather than hand quilt all over it....

The bottom photo shows the completed repair.... 

It was a challenge, especially getting the binding back on.

If another block needs replacing, I will hand stitch it on and not take the quilt apart!

5   Pot

My sister-in-law teaches pottery and I've been the happy recipient of various pieces

over the years.  This is one of my favourites.  We used to have 2 geese and I used

to garden a lot.  Also at the old house I built a lot of stone walls; hence

the design of this pot.  It is now too precious to be used as a pot plant

holder so is now a display piece.

6  Own choice

Remember this from an earlier Photo hunt post?  Click here to see it.

Well roll on a year and it is done!

The colours will not be everyone's cup of tea but Beloved wanted red, black and white.

Time taken - abut 122 hours and 10 minutes!   The time excluded pattern sorting, 

fabric buying, fabric sorting and re-sorting, reading the pattern several times 

and thinking about it when I could not sleep or I was out walking!  

Cost of fabric etc???  From memory about £145 but that is cheap for 

a unique piece of art!  I've plenty fabric left over too!

It is about 71½" wide and about 94" long.  Slightly bigger than the size stated on the

pattern but it is not a problem!

Off to Hawthorn's blog over the next few days to see who else has posted photos.

Thanks for looking and see you next month!

February 2019 Photo Hunt

Hard to believe it is that time again.  This year is whizzing by!  Once again thanks to Hawthorn for organising us all..  Click here to see her photos.

I'll not be able to get to my computer for most of this day but I will see if anyone has been kind enough to leave a  comment when I get back.

I did find this set of words initially daunting but I soon got on with it......

1   Sound/hearing

This is Boris, whom I used to see a lot at the old house.

At our new house I do hear owls.  Over the last few weeks there 

have been owls calling to one another but they must be invisible!

One day I will see owls here......

2   Smell/scent

A necessary job!  Our farmer friend muck spreading on our fields last year.

With this lovely hot and sunny weather I've been doing lots of washing but

I can't hang it out to dry as there is muck spreading going on nearby....

So the tumble dryer is back in use - grrrrr

With most of my pictures there is a story....  for several weeks before 1 March (when these photos

would be live) I'd hoped to see some muck spreading going on so that I could take a

better photo.  But all we saw were 'painted' fields; painted because it looks like the

farmer has used a huge brush to put brown stripes all over the field....

I'd already decided upon the above photo and used it when the other day we came across

a farmer spreading!  Beloved leapt out the the car with my camera and voila!

The birds were loving it!  I have to say the smell was very strong!

3   Feel/touch

So many ideas for these words but in the end I settled for my work basket of Stylecraft

Special DK yarn that I'm currently using to make the latest Attic24 CAL (crochet-a-long).

Click here to see Part 1 of the Attic24 CAL

This yarn is so tactile and easy to work with.

4   Taste

My own home-made marmalade on a fruity tea cake.  Wonderful!

Also eaten with fruit (I love fruit!).

5   See/sight

A few weeks ago I noticed a male sparrowhawk having breakfast.  He was there for

almost an hour.  Not a brilliant photo.  A few days after I was in that part of the garden

and saw the remnants of his breakfast, a pair of sparrow wings.....

6   Own choice

Ta-dah!!!  My Persian Tiles crochet blanket is finished.  I bought it as a kit from Janie Crow

at last year's Yarndale event.  It's about 48" (122 centimetres) square.

It was fun to do, even if a bit tricky at times!

Well that's my lot for this month.