We have relocated!

We have moved to Port Alfred a seaside town in the Eastern Cape to be closer to our daughter. As one gets older there are lots to consider when you live far from your kids. Well their work is here and will not be leaving soon so we decided to come closer to them and also downscale. Hehe well the downscaling was not huge. We have had to do lots of cleaning up, but l love this home already, just need to get my handworks hanging and then we can start having fun. The best is having the grandkids around with lots of hugs!

Life is changing around here

We have decided to relocate to be nearer our daughter. We are getting older and the distance to visit is just too far. So we put our house up for sale and I knew someone that was interested in buying a house, well I told them on Friday and Monday they had a look and bought it immediately all cash and the only condition was that we have to vacate it end March. So now we are moving cross country to Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape. A lovely seaside town. Then we don't have to travel over 1000km to go visit the kids and grandkids. We realize that time moves on and the kids also agree we need to be closer to one of them. Well our son is in Upington and that is not an option, but my daughter wants us to be near to her, so here we go. At this age its not easy to relocate to another place after living here for 20 years now, but we are doing it while we still am able to do so ourselves instead of having the kids come and just take over everything which is a lot of strain on them.

I am now in the process of sorting thru all my stuff I have collected over 20 years and its just so much work, uhm think I will have to take control of this fabric addiction very quickly. And now starts a new journey for us and am looking forward to it.

A Quilt for Matthew!!!!

Starting a new quilt is always so exciting.
This is the color fabric that Matthew got to choose himself.
Now I have started and this is the nine patch block and the center of
the blocks.
Am taking this step by step, because as you know by now
I have a love hate relationship with my Nina. This is all going to
be machine stitching so she is happily singing along now.

Dear Jane Blocks!!!!

Started this just for fun and do a small embroidery piece daily and this is how far this has got. uhm think this peace sign is upside down heheheh will have to remove and start that centre over.

I have been very slow doing these but here is another block of the Dear Jane
blocks, hoping to get a few done this year!

Made this bag for my SIL she has a walking cart and needs a nice basket
so
I made this for her. had to put the buttons on when we visited her to get the correct height.

Just a daily life!!!!

We have had a lots of hot very hot days here and I have been able to get a few projects lying around here done. So here is what I have been working on.

 

Finished two of these telephone book covers for very
dear friends

Temperature taken on the 18th January 2017 at 2pm.

Daily life!!!!!

Busy embroidering my new diary

A great selfie of daughter and family on a
beach in Port Alfred. Had a great holiday.

Another block completed

 Have had this pattern around for ages and got this done at last.
Its 6 triangles combined.
English Paper Piecing technique and
all hand stitched.

A small project completed!!!!

This is a free design from Jenny of Elefantz and just had to stitch it. I will be making two telephone book covers with these.

Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer!!!!!

Nearly done with Rudolf, Lucky checking if all is done. Now just to finish off this wall hanging then I have completed another project for Christmas 2016. I try to make something for each season once a year. I have now a nice collection of Christmas thingy's.

Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer!

Just love this guy. Still working on this wall hanging. Now to find a nice big red nose.

Wip (work in progress) update!

Nearly done, just bit quilting and binding. Started loooong ago!