Australian native flowers

Once the website is up and running, I intend to stitch embroideries of all my favourite native flowers and plants. I have already embroidered the Cootamundra Wattle, and just need to type up the pattern. I have done several on a crazy patchwork wall hanging that I made a few years ago. This photo shows the bottlebrush tree flower. The stitches were stem stitch (for the stem!) and cretan for the leaves, with straight stitches gently loose for the flower, and beads at the ends of the flower stamens to show the gold tips. Do try it for yourself. Copy mine, or look in a book of Australian plants.

Sewing machine maintenance

Yes, I know, how boring - but if you don't clean out the lint from your sewing machine from time to time, it can jam up and cause problems. Check your sewing machine manual from instructions on how to remove the bobbin holder and shuttle race. I have only had my new machine for a year and decided to clean these two places out, as I have done a lot of quilting this year. I found a very solid piece of lint inside!

Here is an interesting web site with free sewing patterns including a bag to hang from a walker or wheelchair.
http://www.sewing.org/index.html

Cootamundra Wattle

Here is the picture.

Website construction

At last I am underway with my website construction. Not without incident. After typing up enough patterns to launch my website, I downloaded some programs from the internet to use to set it up. Unfortunately, they interfered bigtime with my husbands PC games, so I uninstalled the website programs and bought a laptop computer! Now I can dedicate it to "Business", so I'm off again.
Here is a pic of a beautiful Cootamundra Wattle tree - watch out for an embroidery based on it.

Hexagon Quilt

As you can see, I have another article printed in Ezine - click on the button to go there.