I write this fresh from waging war on the slugs and snails in my garden. I’d love to say that I was the victor but, despite having deposited a full ice cream tub of the slippery critters into the skip at the end of my road, I fear their guerilla warfare tactics will give them the upper hand again by the end of the day…
(I know, I know, the skip owner doesn’t want slugs and snails in there, but I can never bring myself to actually kill them…)
In completely unrelated news, (note to self, really should try harder to link blog posts together into a cohesive article) I wanted to show you a few pictures of some quilting I got up to at the weekend.
After the success of my quilted teapot, I wanted to have a go at some slightly more freestyle quilting.
Before my sproglet was born, I made a burp cloth, following this really simple tutorial at Made by Rae. It’s a pretty handy item; backed with terry towelling it’s very absorbent, but it’s always bugged me a little that the two layers don’t stay together very well.
So, I thought I might have a crack at quilting them, vaguely following the outlines of the little rocket people all over the top fabric.
I’ve got to say, I was pretty pleased with the results.
In some places, I followed the outlines closely.
In others, I just nipped along wherever I fancied.
I definitely think I’ll be doing more of this.
Now, sewing chat out of the way, if anyone wants to come on a snail hunt at 7am tomorrow morning, I know the perfect spot…
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Such cute fabric!
At least you scoop up the beasts. Mr Myrtle likes to leave their corpses on the path next to our garden so we can slide on them … yuck.
I think death and destruction is far more effective though. I’ve just realised that I’ve lost almost an entire flowerbed of bulbs to the scoundrels. Think I might have to persuade my Mr to head out with the salt tonight. I just can’t bring myself to do it.
Me Neither. I just chuck live ones over the fence. That’s not a good solution either.
Love your post title.
Oooooh love the cute fabric … have you tried eggshells crushed around your plants or beer traps … cut the bottoms out of plastic milk cartons and dig a little hole to put them in … drop the carton in … fill with a beer of your choice and the little slugs and snails, seek it out, fall in and get drunk and happy … maybe more humane than the salt … Bee xx
Yes, I used to set beer traps, but they always got so full of dead slugs! Ha ha, I know that’s the point, of course, but there was something so vile about this little pot full of dead slugs and I never knew where to dispose of their bodies. Do you think you can put them on the compost heap???