Our Weekend

Friday evening saw another FNWF arranged by Cheryll.

Once again, I didn't achieve very much, but I did progress my Pixie Shawlette.  I crocheted from about where the hook is.  By then my eyes were getting a bit tired.  Certainly not as quick as previous scarves and shawls I've crocheted, but I'm loving the yarn.

The weather over the weekend was forecast to be wet on Saturday and cold today.  Well, we had a couple of very small showers of rain before daybreak on Saturday, but no other rain.  Today we had reached our forecast maximum of 12 degrees by 9.00am!  It ended up being a cool day, but nothing like the forecast.

Our plan yesterday was to go and help my brother collect firewood.

We took his ute and trailer as well as ours.  We were half expecting to have to come home without full loads due to rain, but as that didn't eventuate, he ended up with two big trailer loads - enough wood to keep him going for quite a while.

If you look closely, you can see a wedge tailed eagle that flew around for quite a while.  They are lovely to see.

This afternoon I ventured into the sewing room.  I decided it was time to once again tackle my Splendid Sampler 2 quilt, which has been a bit neglected over the last couple of months.

Firstly, I finally attempted the block "Big Sun".  I was intimidated by the elongated cross sections.  I'm not happy with my results, but they are the best I can do.  At least it is done.

I then counted up how many more blocks were needed - Five.  One of those is already on the go, being the EPP block "Winter Sun" that I am slowly working on.

I remembered that there were some bonus blocks released so had a look at them.  One is called "Last Leaf".  Rather appropriate for the last month of autumn.  It didn't take very long to do.  Now only three and a half blocks to do.

I then added the sashing borders to another eighteen blocks.  That is now seventy two done.  I'm gradually getting there.

Hopefully I will get those extra three and a half blocks done before too long.

My wish that we may get to go on a motorcycle ride this month seems to be a real possibility after the winding back of some restrictions from this coming Friday.  However, the Premier has said that regional travel will not be allowed at this stage.  So no caravanning for a while, as realistically was expected, but a short motorcycle ride is something we are going to have to look into.  It will be great to be out and about a bit.