My favourite thing about today’s designs are the backgrounds … pieced together from random light fabrics. I have a stash of background fabrics just waiting to be cut up and joined together into squares, which will then probably have to wait again for the applique.

Local weather here could use a touch of the tropics … crops should be green and growing, instead they are brown rather than the gold of ripe crops. A bit of tropical rain could at least get feed growing for stock even if it is too late for crops for human consumption.

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