In the early afternoon, we went to see if our neighbours needed help moving furniture, as their bottom floor was going to flood. By the time we got back, the bottom of our yard was a foot deep in water and was rising at a rapid rate.
Went into high drive after this, as we were worried that under the house might flood and moved the washing machine, sewing machine and a million other things upstairs. By night time, we were both very tired, but glad to see that the water was draining away and would not reach the house.
Another flood is about to hit Brisbane, while further north, lives are likely to be lost from more flooding.
Today, I moved things back downstairs, as our flooding comes from a local creek in high rainfall and not from the Brisbane river, which is due to peak tomorrow. We have had about 300 ml of rain in the last couple of days, with almost 200 ml on Saturday.
I really needed to do some quilting, so started stitching in the ditch of the GMFG hexi quilt for my MIL then quilted some of the flowers. I know lots of people think that hand pieced hexis should be hand quilted, but ..... Forget it. This one will be hand pieced and machine quilted and bound.
Pics are below. Good luck for tomorrow everyone and I hope not too many houses are flooded. Many have already lost power and phones.
I think what you are doing with the hexagons is just plain amazing. I've lived through the it isn't a quilt unless everything is hand done stage.
ReplyDeleteI'll never forget seeing my first modern style machine quilted quilt. It never occurred to me that it could have been machine quilted because it didn't look anything like a mattress pad.
I've been through so many changes in quilting technology, that I've learned to just do what I want to do. You should too.
By the way, I've been close to flooded areas here in Pennsylvania, but never actually got flooded. I've been very lucky. One of my houses, the one in New Jersey, has flooded more than once since I sold it 20+ years ago. I'm glad you were able to avoid the flooding.