Deadline looming

All of the Christmas decorations and paraphernalia are definitely down, packed up and are stored back up in the ceiling space ready for next Christmas. The house looks quite bare without it all and this coming year I must decorate the house a little earlier so we can enjoy having it all around longer than we did this year, I think it really does help to get into the spirit of it all.

Most of the businesses and companies in New Zealand are back to work today after the Christmas and New Year holiday break and what a mixed bag we have had weather wise. We did have a few days where the temperatures reached 28 degrees and we really enjoyed summer, alas last week we were supposed to be camping in a tent and the weather was not cooperative at all with wind and rain, we had to make the call to cancel that and so we did home based activities instead. 

The weather isn't much better this morning with a cyclone heading towards New Zealand, it should scoot past us but its presence will be felt with winds and heavy rains - just what every summer needs. The strawberry plants have slowed down as has most of the produce in the garden, hopefully everything will pick up again if the weather improves. 

I managed to squeeze a little bit of stitching in amongst things over the last week and have been making some oven mitts and have stitched more hexies. The hexies are a fantastic stitching activity when friends are visiting, it keeps your hands busy while chatting, is productive and sometimes your non quilting friend is so impressed with what you are doing that they leave with a hexie to start their own project.

I am meeting mum in Auckland next week for another appointment and decided that would be the deadline to have her quilt completed so she can have it with her while having treatment and I am running out of time. 

I am so undecided on how to quilt it and have had it draped over the door to my sewing room so I can ponder on it, but alas nothing is coming to mind. Any suggestions - please comment below, I need to get this beauty done.