Salad Days
It's been Hot! Hot! Hot! here in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Apparently it's been the most consecutive days of hot weather for Sydney on record.
Salads are the thing in Summer and we have all sorts of interesting combos but this is what we had last night and it was so delicious I just have to share it.
Sliced tomato, beautiful fresh leaves of basil, thin rings of spanish onion, marinated bocinccini cheese, a drizzle of the best olive oil and finished with a touch of salt and lots of cracked black pepper. So simple but all the flavours work perfectly together. Food harmony!
On the side a chilled glass of Campari, soda water, wedge of lime and ice.
Even though my sewing room is the hottest room in the house I did manage to get some sewing done today.
This is the top of my doll quilt. You can tell I had fun with the colourful brights in my stash. It's hard to tell the size of a quilt in photos , this little one is 18inches.
For the backing I did my first ever Letter piecing. Gbf thought it said Disco. It's supposed to look like DQS10.
Salads are the thing in Summer and we have all sorts of interesting combos but this is what we had last night and it was so delicious I just have to share it.
Sliced tomato, beautiful fresh leaves of basil, thin rings of spanish onion, marinated bocinccini cheese, a drizzle of the best olive oil and finished with a touch of salt and lots of cracked black pepper. So simple but all the flavours work perfectly together. Food harmony!
On the side a chilled glass of Campari, soda water, wedge of lime and ice.
Even though my sewing room is the hottest room in the house I did manage to get some sewing done today.
This is the top of my doll quilt. You can tell I had fun with the colourful brights in my stash. It's hard to tell the size of a quilt in photos , this little one is 18inches.
For the backing I did my first ever Letter piecing. Gbf thought it said Disco. It's supposed to look like DQS10.I'm playing around with little houses for labels, one with my details and one with the details of my partner.
And yes, I know I should be finishing off my other quilts, especially with The Springwood Quilt Show coming up on the last weekend in April! and not starting anything new but it was too hot to be thinking about basting a quilt. So I made a few circles instead. They're almost as big as the dolls quilt at 16inches and are super quick to make using a dresden plate template ruler.
I've got plans for these wagon wheels but you'll have to wait to find out, in the meantime pop over to The Springwood Quilt Show blog to see what the raffle quilt has been up to.
And yes, I know I should be finishing off my other quilts, especially with The Springwood Quilt Show coming up on the last weekend in April! and not starting anything new but it was too hot to be thinking about basting a quilt. So I made a few circles instead. They're almost as big as the dolls quilt at 16inches and are super quick to make using a dresden plate template ruler. 
I've got plans for these wagon wheels but you'll have to wait to find out, in the meantime pop over to The Springwood Quilt Show blog to see what the raffle quilt has been up to. cheerio
