Rainy Maleny

Maleny has been living up to its nick name, "Rainy Maleny" lately. We had a huge downpour today, the rain falling in sheets from the sky, thunder and flash flooding while I was in my shop fiddling around with a little quilt I started last year. I had to dash out side to take some photos to share with you!

When I went back in and surveyed my progress... OMG... It took a while to work out what the problem was, but I'd sewn the bottom row on the wrong way. (You can see the dark halves of the log cabins are all on the wrong side of the blocks.) Did it matter? The piece was only destined to be a cushion in the end, to make my shop arm chair more comfy. I spent way too long deciding that it DID matter, and reluctantly unpicked the row. Lucky it was small...

It does look better now! I went home and finished the top later and will show you in the next post. It's very cute - even if a bit fussy.

xoxo Ann.

Autumn

Autumn is my favourite season. When I lived in Melbourne, I used to love the smell of woodsmoke at twilight, and shuffling through huge drifts of crinkled brown and gold Elm leaves on the side - walk and in the Botanical Gardens, in my black suede pointy-toed boots!
I moved to the Tropics, living in Indonesia for two years, then Darwin in the Northern Territory. I didn't think I'd ever see autumn leaves again or smell the smoky crisp evening air.
But then I came to Maleny, and Autumn puts on a lovely show.
This year it's been particularly spectacular with the large Liquid Ambers scattered through the town and its gardens, more intensely coloured than any other year.
We went to some open gardens on the weekend and coloured leaves were everywhere.
There were gold and brown carpeting the ground thickly...

Red ones still clinging tenuously to trees...

and masses of flaming fed, gold and purple ones welcoming people to town in our park.

When I first moved to Maleny, I made a quilt called "Autumn at Last" ( which became my first Magazine commission in Quilters' Companion) I was so insired by the colours and the season.

And right now, I have just about finished a private commission for a Maple Leaf quilt from that same pattern. That will be my next post.
Keep warm in the chilly winter nights and mornings,

Ann.