It was my birthday last Wednesday and I got gumboots.
Not just gumboots, beautiful gumboots. I feel like a 6 year old, and I want to wear them with everything. Luckily we went away to Berry again this weekend and it was muddy, so I was able to give them a really good test run.
See, mine are pretty and everyone else's are black :)
As it's school holidays, we've had friends staying and the boys have had a great time charging through the bush and coming home wet and covered with ticks. All such good fun having your friends to stay though.
Seriously, how blue are those eyes???
In between all of this holiday lovliness, I've been madly hand quilting and playing with Flying Geese again.
Rows...
Bow ties...
Back and forth....
Broken Dishes...
And other zig zags, which I think I like the best. What do you think? Anyone have any amazing Goose layouts I need to know about? Sarah Fielke, Material Obsession, Material Obsession 2
PS. Here is a pic of one of my students hand piecing at Uluru in the centre of Australia. She is on a 4 month camping trip with her family around Australia. Glad to see you're getting some homework done Sue!
Love the gumboots! Can't wait to see what you do with the geese, I like the zig zags too.
Posted by: Kelly | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Gorgeous Wellies!!!
Love your geese too!! Can't give a preference. I love them ALL!!
Andi :-)
Posted by: Andi | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 11:30 AM
How fun -- flying geese are my favorites! And I think that little child in us that still loves the little things like pretty boots -- that's what keeps us young. And makes life that much more fun =)
Posted by: wishes, true and kind | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 01:08 PM
LOVE the boots!!!!!!
Posted by: Laura | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 01:40 PM
Happy belated Birthday! Oh how I love the geeses - all thanks to you!
Posted by: Kate | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 02:04 PM
Happy Birthday , I neeeed those boots !
Posted by: clare bower | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 03:19 PM
The best thing about having all boys....you get the boots! You know darn well if we had girls, they'd be the ones wearing the pretty boots:)
Posted by: Meg Hamilton | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Those are great wellies. I love how the geese look in a zig zag pattern - my favourite of you options.
Posted by: Marlene Scobbie | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 04:46 PM
Happy Birthday and Love those boots!
omgosh his eyes are soooo blue and beautiful.
flying gesse can't wait to see what they become!
Posted by: kathie | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 06:15 PM
Happy Birthday Sarah, oh my, if I had those boots I would wear them every day. They are toooooo cute. In America they are wearing them around! Wish we could find those hear. I have a pair that are black with white polka dots on them. You look adorable with the boots. Find every excuse to wear them!
Love flying geese!
Posted by: Linda Stubbs | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 09:09 PM
Oops! I spelt here hear. silly me it is 6:00 in the morning! smile.
Posted by: Linda Stubbs | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 09:11 PM
A very Happy Birthday to you. Love the boots. The color is fabulous! They are perfect for you.
I love the last picture. Your eye follows the colors across giving "movement" to the quilt.
What a wonderful picture of your student. The landscape is amazing.
Posted by: Wagonwife Designs | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 09:53 PM
Everything looks wonderful. But the ticks thing creeps me out!
Posted by: pam | Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 02:44 AM
The most gorgeous boots. Ever! I'm going to thinking of boots and geese for some time now. What fun you've been having!
Posted by: amy | Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 04:59 AM
Your boots are fabulous...I think I could almost wear those shopping!!! Thanks for sharing your holiday pics, so glad you had a great time. xo
Posted by: Cathy | Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 07:26 AM
Happy belated Birthday Sarah....just LOVE those boots, you must be the slickest chick around...I was a farmer's wife once and back then there wasn't anything as pretty as your beautiful boots but then that was 100 years ago...Ho Hum!
Posted by: Elizabeth | Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 08:05 AM
Love your new boots! Happy Birthday :) The flying geese are so scrappy and great! I love the zig zag approach too!
Posted by: Amy - parkcitygirl | Friday, July 24, 2009 at 04:25 AM
Happy birthday Sarah for last week. I LOVE the gumboots - so cute! Hope you had a great day.
Posted by: Sandy | Friday, July 24, 2009 at 04:37 PM
Sarah,
Many happy returns,the Gumbbots are to die for.
Posted by: Judy | Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 07:54 PM
Yes, the boots are funky, but I would worry about getting them all mucky!
I like to use flying geese to indicate direction and point to things. I like to use them to enhance a theme I have in a quilt. For example, on your women's day quilt I had a transport theme and now the flying geese are the road that twists and turns all the way through the cars and trucks and monsters on the quilt. Maybe I like to use them to tell the story of the quilt.
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