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Join me at Patchwork House online or at my home in Jersey UK.  

Ask for an invitation to join Patchwork House now

I am forming a new self-help group for people who wish to meet up online or at my house on a regular basis to discuss quilting, using EQ7 software, working with fabrics, garment making, machine embroidery using the Bernina Designer Plus digitizing software and
fabric dyeing (natural or *chemical) dyeing.

 

*Please be advised that if you use Chemical Dyes you will have to ensure you use high safety standard techniques.

 

I have added three very important blogger sites to my webpage which deal with the need to bring truth and transparency to our society in Jersey.

They are:

http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/

 

AND

http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/

 

There appears to be a school of thought that wishes the abuse enquiry to be forgotten, put under the carpet and safely hidden away.  Well this is not going to happen.  The word bandied about by the olligarchy and the island accredited press is ‘historic’ , as one of the guest posters in http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/  explains the word ‘historic’ has no place in any of the headlines relating to this terrible injustice perpetrated on the poor, many orphaned, children housed in some of the children’s homes  on the island no matter how long ago the abuse may have happened.

Read these  blogs!

Another very interesting blog is:

http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/

 

and try

http://tomgruchy.blogspot.com/

 

as well for human rights matters.

 

 

 

I thoroughly enjoyed my walk along the Common land at Noirmont near my house this week.  I gathered some elderflowers and took a recipe from the internet and made a batch of Elderflower Cordial.

It took me about 20 minutes to get the solution ready.  I added the flowers and left the solution rest in the fermentation bucket I was using that I normally use to make wine.  Every twelve hours I lifted the lid and the smell emanating from this lovely liquid was sensational.

Once the 72 hours elapsed I proceeded to sterilize some bottles that I had collected with lift off metal tops by putting them in the oven at 150 degrees celcius.

I siphoned off the delicious liquid and had my first sample using it in the proportion of 11 to 1 with carbonated water as a treat.  It was as delicious as it looked.  Not only that I took the two crushed up lemons and two crushed up oranges used in the making of the Elderflower Cordial and transferred them to a pot and proceeded to make lemon and orange marmalade using half a pint of the newly made Elderflower Cordial.  The marmalade tasted really special with the addition of the Elderflower Cordial.  Nothing but natures best in my kitchen.

One of my most favourite trees/bushes is the Magnolia Stellata.  It has such a pretty flower and foliage.  I have had this plant for approx five years and it has grown considerably and now shows itself off to its full splendour.  Can’t wait until it gets even bigger.

Here is a close-up of the flower.

Here is a picture of the whole bush. It is still only about 3ft high.

I signed up to do a Spring Mystery Quilt for 2011 with http://carterquilter.wordpress.com and I am very pleased with it.  I still have to sandwich it and put a binder on but that time will come

I used some of my French Provencal fabric for this one.  I ran short of the yellow fabric so I had to improvise and use blue in some places where yellow should have been.  I am pleased with the result and it the mystery was fun to do.

A quilt top I made on New Year’s Eve.  I really should get some of these quilts I make sandwiched and finished – I just love making and piecing tops. 

Here is a picture found on the internet recently which depicts the Bread Riot of 1847.

I will try and do some more research on this particular riot.  Since then there seems to have been a very long quiet period with a few protests but does not seem to have been any more riots.

Just been watching the bread making video very interesting might try it.

I have just logged onto Jersey Tide Times and my Coastline posts are on it. I sightly remember an email i had a little while ago from Jersey Tourism asking if i minded them using my post and yes thats fine and forgot all about it, so cannot be all bad.

I surfed the net today because I wanted a quick bread recipe as I was too busy doing projects at home to visit the supermarket to purchase bread.  No Joke the picture above is the result of my labour.  Good effort eh?

I found this recipe which look promising:  I had all the ingredients ready at home so I got to work right away.  It was brilliant and you can, hopefully, find the link here.

http://www.5min.com/Video/Easy-bread-making-5316

I do not know if you already know about 2 sites on the internet. One is the “7dayshop.com” and the other is “play.com”  I wanted a hammock and the only ones over here were £32 +, on play.com £27 i know that this is not a great saving but it was the make that i wanted and it is much better than the £32 one.

7dayshop.com for photo paper etc and all sorts of other things have special prices all the time. Worth checking the site out before buying else where.