A lot has happened since I started this blog and now is the time to get really serious.
I have relocated from the top of Australia - Jabiru in the world famous Kakadu National Park to Adelaide which is known as the City of Churches - to the bottom of Australia. These two places are 3000 kms apart.

So far I am enjoying the change of climate. Although the temperatures are much the same at present the humidity is vastly different.Will be a different story in the winter.

I have been busy doing a few decorative changes to the house I have purchased as well as trying to re-establish a new creative space. I have a large shed but at the moment it is currently full of my daughter's belongings as she looks for a house.
Hopefully this will happen soon and then I can really get to work on my new space.

I have been busy dyeing fabric for a couple of projects that are stuck in my head - more on this later.
I will also post a tutorial of how I quilt a graduation which is coming out great. Very vibrant colours and great mottled look.

I have also been busy taking photos of flowers and have replaced the waterlilies with roses. Once again for some quilt ideas I am playing around with.

I am about to try selling my items at a local artisans market which should be fun.
Who knows what may come of it but from small things big things grow.

I have also bought a spinning wheel - something that I did in the past and yesterday I purchased a beautiful fleece from a lady who keeps a sheep as a pet by the name of Bertie. Will keep this activity for when the weather gets cooler.

The other thing that I am going to do is organise and clean up my stash. I have been reading many articles about this topic lately and now is a perfect time as it was all boxed up for the trip and so needs to be unboxed.
I have got 2 DVD towers which are perfect for fat quarters - to sort in colours as well as maybe themes. I have a lot more fabric than I realised so maybe some of it needs to move on as well. It appears that fabric can also be like your clothes - if you haven't played with it for a few years then maybe it is out of favour with you and it needs to go.

As far as creating new things I have made a couple of jelly roll quilts. I had an idea for one like those made from a jelly roll race. After the first 2 lengths are sewn together I cut them at random intervals and inserted plain white squares. I then kept going with the process. It worked out okay so now all that needs to happen is to complete the border and quilt.

Enjoy!