As the weather seems to have brightened up a bit, we went to Fanshawe Gate Hall to look round the garden. Jim seemed to enjoy it, and much was admired:

and this:



But sadly, his essay still isn't finished, so we had to return home so that he could gaze at a computer screen for hours and hours, in the pretence of writing some masterpiece or other on "Scottish Identity in the Nineteenth Century".

So I thought 'Hooray' and set about sewing some squares together. The pattern, such as it is, is from Lisa Bergene's book 'Passionate Patchwork' - a book that I love to look through in search of inspiration. This is supposed to be used for country picnics:



Obviously it still needs to be quilted, but this is the top completed:



But (as usual) I now want to add more - perhaps some extra borders.....

And hooray again - although the garden isn't super sized, the apples are doing well: