HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
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This is my delicious Easter treat; Choco Balls!
I don't buy Easter Eggs here, I don't like the taste. If I'd been in Norway, that's another story; the marzipan Easter Eggs are to kill for!
The week switching between rainy- and sunny days, which meant more yard work (when the weather permitted before noon)! Living in the tropics, yard work / weeding is a never ending task! April is just around the corner, the days & nights are getting cooler and the worst growing season is over (for this time!). Most households employ a yard worker. We don't. Our philosophy is as long as we are fit and can manage, there's no reason why we'll get other people doing the job. At any age, it is important to keep fit and yard work is good exercise! Well, enough of that and over to sewing!
As stated in the title; no purple sewing this week.
I haven't got the purple thread yet. The Customs is waiting for missing papers from the sender, which seems to take some time. I may not get it until end of next week. That's OK.
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In addition to yard work and other tasks, I'm spending the evenings quilting the green table quilts. My goal is to get them done in time for April 1st, when a new color-of-the-month - RSC - is announced. The straight seams quilting is a bit tedious, but I love the look of the finished quilt.
Update: Table Topper quilted, except the border.
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Oh, I almost forgot to mention the Norwegian Flag table runner; it's finished!
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I talk about yard work, but never post any photos from the garden.
Cloudy today, the perfect outside photo weather. We don't have a lot of blooming trees/plants, but here are a few. You may recognise bougainvillea and croton. The one top right is called 'Miss Hong Kong' here, not sure about its Latin name.
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Edibles: guava berries and taro leaves, called brede songe in French/here. Very popular here, served together with curry.
Taro leaves touffe recipe, click here
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Green bananas and its flower
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The roots from this plant are edible, not the leaves. Roots are boiled and can be prepared same way as mashed potatoes or just eat it boiled. Locals call this plant 'corn flour', but it doesn't have anything to do with the real corn plants. Most probably it has got that local name because it is possible to make flour from the roots? I don't know. MIL doesn't know another name for it either.
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Do you see those 'antennas'? It's a tiny dragon fruit (pitaya) plant grown from a seed! We got it from our dear South-African friends (they moved back to SA last year). I'm thrilled this little 'baby' made it and is growing! Don't ask me when it will give fruit! lol Well, it does say 1-2 years, so let's see. What I need to do is to transfer the plant to a bigger pot and eventually to a sunny spot in the garden.
It's Easter Weekend
It's cloudy
Weather forecast: heavy rain and thunderstorms (typical weekend weather! LOL)
Best weather for staying comfy inside and SEW!
Linking up with Angela and the RSC - Rainbow Scrap Challenge
10 comments:
Your green tablerunner and the Norwegian flag runner are both looking great! It's so interesting to see the plants and flowers that grow there - very different from chilly and dry Colorado, USA. Happy Easter!
No PURPLE sewing for the RSC, but some good progress and finishes on other projects, Astrid. LOVE that Norway flag set!! Making coasters with the scraps was good thinking. They are SEW cute!
Den grønne quilten er flott, nydelige farger. Og fin norsk løper! Spennende planter i hagen. Her begynner så vidt snøklokker og krokus å blomstre. Og til påske kjøper vi jo påskeliljer i potter og pynter med. Bare regn hele påska hos oss. Venter på vårsola. God påske!
The quilting on your green table topper looks great! And so do the table
runner and coasters. You have some really pretty plants in your garden. Hope you have a nice Easter.
Lovely to see the progress on all your projects. And your garden appears to be flourishing.
Happy Easter to you too!
So love both of these lovely projects. Astrid. Well done. Yes I have the same idea about gardening. It is good for me to do the work myself as long as I can. I enjoyed seeing closeups of your flowers. They look amazing to me.Thanks for sharing in this lovely post!
How fun to see your local plants! That is a lot of bananas! Love the green table quilt too.
Loved seeing the plants - and was blown away by the banana flower. I've never seen one before.
Your projects are both great - now I'm wondering what the colour will be for April.
Beautiful table runners & cute coasters. Way to use up that fabric! Thanks for sharing the plants around you, so different from what is in my local area although my neighbors used to grow bananas too. Not sure if they ever got to eat any. They did move south and took the banana trees with them. Lol!
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