02.03
Well, we’re in to February now and it is still raining. We’ve lived in Brunei for fourteen years now and I don’t remember ever having such a wet season, we’ve even getting leeches and frogs on our patio on a regular basis. The frogs I don’t mind but leeches are not so nice.
I’ve been continuing to work on my rain forest art quilt design and it is slowly coming together. The difficulty is deciding how much extra detail to add, where to put it and when is enough.
In the photo above I’ve started adding some jungle floor foliage using raw edge applique, these fan palms are very common in the forest here.
fan palms and seedlings
fan palms spilling into the border.
These details are all attached using fusible web and I will secure them when it comes to the quilting stage. I plan to add a few more plants and some jungle creepers then I think I will be ready to put it all together and start the quilting.
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Anne I think it is coming together really well. I like the fan palms that you have added. Ugh to leeches! couldn’t even begin to imagine seeing one of those on my deck. I hope none have ever attached to you.
Karen
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Thank you Karen, I finally took the plunge today and decided I’d added enough embellishments and started the quilting.
I’m not too keen on the leeches, we’ve not had them in the garden before but I think because it is so wet they’re creeping in from the little bit of scrub we have between us and the beach. Unfortunately I have had them attached before, and they’re not very nice. We once did a jungle walk in the rain and I lost count of the ones that sniffed me out and attached themselves.