Sleepy Acres start

I have made a start on the Sleepy Acres quilt by Amy Bradley. This is the quilt my 9 yr old son has chosen. We looked at both Amy's cat and dog quilts but ds couldn't decide; then I found her Sleepy Acres quilt. This solved his problem as it had lots of animals in it, and he loves animals.

This block isn't finished yet, only partially done.

He has helped go through my stash and the scraps to find suitable fabrics for the quilt. Only thing is I don't seem to have any fabrics in gray tones... need them for the horse and sheep. There are plently of other blocks for me to work on before I get to those ones though!

I have all my bits ready to start on my sewing machine cover for Jenny's challenge. It took me a while to decide on fabric; because if I wasn't on my self imposed ban I would have went out and bought fabric instead of thinking over what I had in the cupboard. So glad I did. This is French Hatbox by Tanya Whelan and is very pretty. I don't have enough for a quilt as I bought yardage of 5 prints I liked best. This project has taken thinking on because a sewing machine cover is something I will be looking at everyday and some days for quite a portion of the day, so it had to be something I really liked; it also had to go with my green walls.....

Here is the folder cover I made the other week. It is my sisters birthday present. I didn't want the jar in the middle and am really pleased with the final effect with her name up the side of the folder.

It is for recipes. DH does not like to see the leaves in the jar... *grin*.

These are my espalliaed apple trees, I started mowing around them the other week, and now have to mow more to the left of the picture where we have posts in ready for another row of trees next autumn.

This is done by push mower too, as our ride on is older than the dinosaurs and no longer safe to use. Could definately do with some rain, it is getting dry. There is only green in this pic because the apples are on a dripper system from our bore.