April amid corona virus lockdown

The weather has been amazing. Warm, sunny and dry.

White courtyard walls

It’s a slow but strangely satisfying job...gradually the courtyard walls are transforming from discoloured pebbledash to brilliant white. I’m so thankful for an outside job when the weather is mild and sunny.

Easter, covid 19 style.

 A home made Easter egg treasure hunt, lots of chocolate and an Easter service online.

Designing Foundation Paper Piecing FPP

I’m fascinated by how to design your own Foundation Pattern Piecing (FPP). It is a complicated and brain twisting thing until you get your head around it. A bit like writing with your left hand if you are naturally right handed!
But so satisfying when you have a design in your head and can piece it all together.
I’m hoping to design lots of basic blocks as I learn the process and then pull them altogether to make a quilt or wall hanging for our bedroom.

Macrame wall hanging

I had bought some macrame cotton a few months back and really wanted to make some macrame but didn’t really know where to start. I was tidying my craft supplies and found this gold hoop which I bought in Sorstene Grene months ago. Our master bedroom and new en-suite still need some wall art so I googled ‘easy macrame hoop’ and found a great tutorial. If I can find it again I’ll link it. 

Once you can get your hands used to making the knots and your eyes trained for the mistakes, it comes together very easily and is very satisfying to finish a project in an afternoon.

A wall hanging for our bedroom

We treated ourselves to a new Super king size bed which required new bedding and a chance to make some progress on finishing off our master bedroom.
I had seen something similar to this on Pinterest and knew I could cobble one together with supplies I already had.
I found the piece of bamboo in M’s poly tunnel and got him to cut it to size.
Them I used a mixture of wools, in pink, grey and green tones, plaiting, twisting and unraveling them to create what I had envisioned in my head!

Our hatching chicks journey

Always up for a project and having fertile eggs, we decided to buy an incubator and see if we could hatch our own chicks.
We are one week in with 7 eggs being kept warm and turned 4 times a day.
Lj is mother hen, looking after them and is putting together a power point ‘from egg to chick and everything in between’!
We candled them on Sunday and thought we could see the chick developing...but to be honest, we don’t really know what we are looking at!!!