This time last year, Mike bought a couple of young Dragon Fruit plants which are thriving, side by side in pots on the terrace outside my first floor studio. He bought two different varieties, one with red fruit inside and the other with white. A couple of weeks ago, one of them produced 5 beautiful flowers, and one will open on the other plant in a couple of days’ time. However, we have no idea which plant is which 🙂 and whether these flowers will actually produce fruit, but we’re patient.
These next pictures are of Dragon Fruit that Mike recently bought from the market and ate – that’s a teaspoon beside it. I don’t especially care for them, but they’re quite beautiful.
I took this photo of the outside and the cavity left after eating the other half, purely because of the beautiful colour scheme potential.
Since my last post, I’ve done a fair bit of stitching, making inroads to the 6km of thread, so now there’s a visible difference between the partially used cone of green and the untouched one, and I’m happy to say this quilt, Pandemic Pattern 4 is totally finished.
I’m sample making for the next in the series, which will feature appliqued leather coffin shapes with orange neon stitching.
In continuing pandemic conditions, there’s still plenty of stitching time as social activity is still minimal for our age group at least with the number of new covid cases has recently risen alarmingly here since January, and with the approach of Semana Tourismo known elsewhere as Holy Week, growing concern at the appearance in 6 or 7 departments,of the much more contagious Manaus variant, P.1. currently raging up in Brasil. The minute we could, we registered to get the vaccine, and are waiting to be allocated appointments.