can't stitch and travel...

The tapestry has only the sky to go now, but not much other stitching happening with caring role, art classes and homework and a short break to visit Rachel in Hobart. Strangely the weather there was warmer than Adelaide (though that changed the day after). Here are a few of my memories.
Beautiful sunrises each morning from Rachel's kitchen window and balcony

and fabulous displays of ornamental cabbages throughout the shopping area. I checked out the lovely Thread, Needlework & Patchwork shop in Liverpool Street - packed with great thread selection, modern fabrics and beautiful embroidered samplers on the wall - but otherwise revisited the interesting/thought provoking Museum of New Art (MONA) and Salamanca market. 

Unfortunately the Tasmanian Museum was shut on Monday when I made my way there, so I just had to make do with another visit to the wharf area and Salamanca :-)

 This is the replica of the Lady Nelson - that brought the first settlers to Tasmania. It is so hard to imagine 12 months on a vessel like that, and to contemplate coming up beside a whale!

 The old and the new - the Australian Antarctic vessel is in the rear.

 Monument to the early settlers in Salamanca Place

  I also took a fabulous trip to Bruny Island with Pennicott Wilderness Journeys  www.pennicottjourneys.com.au/  - by bus to and from, and around the coast by boat. Amazing sights of rocks cliffs, caverns and passages. The colour of the water brilliant blues and greens, huge kelp, birds and lots of (smelly) seals on the lower islands. I got snap happy but here are just a few pictures

 It looked like we would get rain at one stage but we stayed on the edge.

Back on land we did spot a rare white wallaby, but it was some distance away and is just a blur in my photo.
Finally a  couple of shots as I walked to the bus stop. Not sure what this flower is - or the critter that is guarding the mailbox!

     

my little jug quilt

I have just received another 49 jugs! I had a wonderful surprise last night when my friends in our Quilter's Dozen group gave me a lovely lap quilt they've made in thanks for hosting the group for meetings and inspiring (probably should read bullying) them. They felt that 'the pattern had my name on it' and sneakily they even used some of my fabrics in it. Thanks so much, girls.
I've been asked a few times, where the jug quilt is, and my answer has been 'on the drawing board'. I don't think I need bother now.
Here is the quilt

and here it is with some of the 600

Nothing of my work to show at the moment. I have a couple of projects on the drawing board, literally, and that I find is the hardest part. I much prefer the stitching.

Went into the city last week and caught a brillian exhibition of work by three generations of  Aboriginal wood artists at the SA Museum entitled Punuku Tjukurpa. I think it is touring elsewhere now, but it is well worth a look if it comes near you. Walking along North Terrace I was amused to see this -

Punuku Tjukurpa offers the first opportunity for audiences to view work from the magnificent Maruku Arts archive, representing three generations of artists for whom the tradition of wood carving has been passed down - See more at: http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/explore/exhibitions/punuku-tjukurpa#sthash.lYiaPdig.dpuf

Punuku Tjukurpa offers the first opportunity for audiences to view work from the magnificent Maruku Arts archive, representing three generations of artists for whom the tradition of wood carving has been passed down - See more at: http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/explore/exhibitions/punuku-tjukurpa#sthash.lYiaPdig.dpuf

 Yes, it was a fine autumn day with the sun shining...

We have been having wintry weather of late and the garden looks a bit forlorn, but a few spots of colour caught my eye the other day -
   Mini pomegranites in abundance

 1 of just 2 mandarines on the tree - the first fruits, which have taken a very long time ripening. It is quite strange the way it is growing, sort of side on and not hanging down like normal

 Dill seed head against a blue sky

Bright red silver beet stalks

 and a delicate, apricot Just Joey rose

Not quite so colourful, but interesting - some fungi among the violets (though I seem to have cropped the violets out)