2019 Wk 37: tea and trees and Dresdens

The girls and I took their God Mother and God Sister out for their combined birthdays this year: afternoon tea on a vintage London Double Decker bus

 All that food plus savoury muffins, and scones with cream and jam (or should that be jam and cream?) and lots of tea of coffee - a great afternoon out

 And we've finally got around to getting a gardening in to hack this lot down.  Behind that forest is my beautiful church - but you wouldn't know it.

The gardener got let down by his partner so he got his two lads to help - they did a great job first of all giving me back my view of the trees

and then cutting the last few down.  The stumps will protect the garden from un-authorised visitors, and if the apple tree in the garden gets too big that will have the same treatment!!!

At Chertsey Museum we had some show and tell of the handy pods and foundation paper piecing

and some Dresden plates were created (I was too late to get the other photos!)

Star Tree Block

I'm slowly catching up with the Start of Africa blocks - this is March's block for Brinda.  She wanted trees.  With a number of us living in the UK I decided not to go for an English tree.  I toyed with the idea of going Norwegian, but then I saw this on the Urban Threads website, and decided this was perfect for an international Bee.

A tree, as requested by Brinda, but have you noticed the foliage clumps?  All the continents are represented, and even better, Africa is pretty much the centre - hope Brinda likes it