Clothtocloth - Coconut ice and some sugar plum faries



...the star....



 

the shift...visited by a couple of sugar plum faries

coconut ice detail

....and then some more....

this little piece of card weave desperately wants to be part of this cloth.....

Clothtocloth - coconut - ice

I have been working quietly on my cloth some new ideas and some distractions…. 

…and then there have been more experiments with the avo…….

I added bicarbonate of soda to the boiling pot and this is the result….:-)

the dark pink is satin velvet the other pieces are bits of cotton cloth…..

Holiday flowers

This picture of a new sunflower makes me think of hope…helps me to get through the day here…hope… that is….this is a hard country to live in…Sierra Leone..that is…

These are hydrangeas' taken at Stour Head church…near Warminster in the UK….this picture reminds me of a wedding gown….love…something I feel everyday…how lucky can this person be?

Packing….I hate packing…

…..it means the holiday is over …. it also means that my dearly beloved and I have some very serious discussions about how the cases should be packed…when I was a one this was very easy and even if I say so myself I do believe that I am a very good steve-a-dore (sp) (one who can pack large amounts into tiny spaces without damages). My dearly beloved, though he may think he can pack, he can’t and will not admit that he can’t…so the dilemma…I have retreated to the computer to keep the peace…and to say a silent prayer that all our possessions will arrive in Sierra Leone on Monday evening in one piece !

Test post from windows live

Everyday I learn something new…

Avocado leaves and peels

Hi Kaite this post is in reply to your comment. On the left is silk velvet, cotton and some silky see through fabric ( need to study up on types of material) the background fabric is a canvas type fabric which we in South Africa, call bull denim. These peices were dyed with leaves picked from an avocado tree on the compound. The lilac peices on the right were dyed using avo peels, now I don't know if this happened because the avo was well passed it's sell by date or there was something in the material I just don't know. Perhaps your elderberry witch was sitting on the side of the pot. The stippling effect on the background fabric happened when I placed the cloth on the top of the washing maching to dry, there must have been some washing powder crumbs on the top that I did not notice...anyway I quite like the result...

Sierra Leone Brewery....Star Beer

Sierra Leone Brewery

When I was told that we had been signed up for a tour of the local brewery I have to say that my first thoughts were "I'd rather be home sewing!" But then I was told that we would be travelling through a part of Freetown we had not visited before (a post for another day). Interested in what is happening in and around I was in for the journey. Upon our arrival at SLB we were ushered into the company pub where we savoured the delights of the product of the brewery....BEER!

The local brew "Star Beer"

Beer bottle soldiers..

I have to be honest and say that upon reflection.... a really entertaining afternoon was had, thanks to the warm welcome from the staff at SLB and the great company of our colleagues.... this visit will be a fond souvenir of our time here in Sierra Leone.....

SLB's "greening" contribution...

The Face Challenge

I have entered a face challenge set by Susan ......this face was found on one of the footpaths on our compound....I had to do a little primping and preening to get it alltogether as she was a little dishevelled having weathered a storm in the night...I hoped that passers by would see her before the gardeners swept her away....

My face for the Face Challenge

 While out looking for the face, I came across these little chaps waiting for a new life and now they have it...in a beautiful little bowl on my desk.....a lovely greeting everytime I sit down to sew at my desk.....

Little faces found in the undergrowth

West African Rainbow Lizard

At the moment I am partaking in a class given by Jude Hill of Spirit Cloth called Patchwork Beasts....one of the beasts featured lately is the lizard...much chatter has been going on about lizards in parts of the world so I thought I would add my bit about the lizard species we have here in Sierra Leone.....Here he is in his not so colourful but interesting suit.......

This is him in his mating suit....unfortunately this picture does not show the blue colour on his torso very clearly

rain watching.....waiting....

We are well and truly into the rainy season...day by day the rain lingers longer...wreaking havoc on the roads...there are no true drainage systems here, so when it rains, roads become rivers.....homes are being washed away.....no respite in sight.....this is just the beginning.....three more very wet months...

Rain drop on the tiles......

rain watching.....

I started this piece when we were waitng for the ash to lift from the unpronouncable volcano in Iceland....it is still in slow progress.....

waiting.......

Gift in the mail....

"Truly great friends are hard to find difficult to leave and impossible to forget" .....a couple of weeks ago I received a parcel from my dearest friend in New Zealand, the quotation above was written on the face of the card...I am really lucky....thanks my friend you are always in my thoughts.....

Special gift from a special person.....