Pinwheels and sunshine

There hasn't been a lot of sewing going on here lately (more on that later...) but when I have had the chance I have been beavering away at my pinwheel quilt.
You may remember that I showed it a little while  ago at what I thought may have been (flimsy) completion stage; after some thinking I decided to make it a little bigger and (hopefully) a little more interesting with a bit of extra border treatment.
(The pinwheels are from a swap I did with some friends last year.)

Woohoo - another flimsy!!

Now I am happy to send it to the quilter (grin, yes, I know, that is me, but doesn't that sound grand?). The quilt really has got quite big but it was a good opportunity to use up some more scraps - you can see I used quite a few but as my stash suffers from scrappus multiplius there are still plenty left for more projects :-) [BTW I love scraps so that's OK!].

Just enough breeze to be a nuisance!

I am linking up to Kim's Big Quilting Adventure and Scrap Basket Sunday. Click here to see what other bloggers are doing with their scraps.

One of the reasons for a lack of sewing (and my unofficial blog hiatus) has been the celebration of my birthday last weekend.Thank you to Joanne who told me we really had to celebrate the fact that we are here for another birthday to hit us - I am so glad I decided not to hide under a rock. We had a brilliant fine warm day (not bad for the middle of July in winter) and plenty of family and friends gathered for a lovely afternoon. We had a few relatives stay the night which was fun (and they helped to clean up the leftovers!). A pretty awesome highlight was my brother turning up on the doorstep; we knew he was coming over to NZ but he wasn't supposed to arrive till Tuesday - and I didn't dream that he would end up at this end of the country. Thanks bro!

We didn't get many photos but you get the idea.
Cake made by YD.
Bare arms in mid-winter :-)
Farm walk on Sunday.
Brother and I playing with the timer on the camera.

Last Saturday wasn't the only nice fine day we've had lately - look at these photos I took yesterday.....

I love going out the back, climbing higher and higher and above the fog.

Almost beach-like!

Cows waitiing for a shift onto fresh grass.

The MOML doing farmer things.

Bringing two cows home... because guess what...?...

...we have one of these...
..the first of plenty...
...sigh..time for me to start donning my gumboots a bit more often...
...mouths to feed and stock to tend...

Today is damp and more winter-like, hopefully those fine days will return. I'm planning to spend the rest of Sunday playing on my sewing machine - wish me luck!!

Happy stitching everyone,