When I was sorting out some photos for today's post, I realised that I had forgotten about these ones which I took late on Saturday afternoon. Skies like this always make me think of those enormous paintings you see in museums, which feature God, angels, cherubs, saints etc
the maple toffee vodka has been bottled
and the Christmas pudding vodka has been strained twice. First through a nylon jelly bag to drain the liquid from the fruit
and then through a paper coffee filter to remove the residue of the spices. I'll bottle it tomorrow
as we are now counting down to Christmas, I changed over the quits on the guest bed this morning. These aren't the best of photos, as it has been a gloomy, grey day, and I had to use the flash. For most of the year, the row-by-row quilt is the top one on the bed
but this lovely quilt was given to me last year in Melbourne by the lovely Helen. Although there are no Christmas fabrics in it, the colours are definitely Christmassy
Helen is well known for disliking fabric with birds on it, but she had been in such a hurry to finish this quilt, she didn't notice the birds on the border fabric! So she very generously gave me the quilt top, which Kay quilted beautifully for me
underneath both quilts is this log cabin quilt which was one of the first quilts I made twenty years ago. It is made from curtain fabric samples, and is very heavy!
I have been busy sewing all day, but I can't show you what I was doing as it is a Christmas present. I was using my walking foot
but the bar across the centre was making it difficult to see where I was stitching a very precise line
I had a word with my resident Mr Fixit (aka, of course, Malcolm) and it was only a matter of minutes until he had solved the problem! He simply used his junior hacksaw to remove the offending section