I am weak to jet lag

 I'd kind of forgotten how badly jet lag hits me when I fly west to east (never as bad in the other direction for some reason) because I always shift my schedule towards the destination zone before I go to Japan etc.  But coming back from St Kitts, it took a good three days before I felt normal again (as opposed to hungover, exhausted and flu-ish).  Recovered in the end.  Meanwhile did tons of laundry, loads of weeding and hacking in the garden, and got caught up on paperwork and whittling down my photos of St Kitts.  Here are a few:

Fairview - a reconstructed sugar plantation house

Green vervet monkey behind my hotel - there are twice

as many monkeys as people and they are a real pest for crops

Nevis botanical gardens

My version of the quilt tour project - designs were supplied for

the St Nevis flag, brown pelican (national bird), hibiscus (national flower)

monkeys and turtle, then I made a sixth block of palm trees based on an image from 

Freepik.com.  It's mostly fused raw edge applique but I needle-turned the

turtle and some of the backgrounds.  The stars are EPP.

batiks drying outside at Carabelle Batik Factory

inside the shop

Batik factory - melting the wax off dyed cloths

beach at Frigate Bay near the hotel

View from my balcony

I soaked my purchased batik scraps in Retayne to help fix the dye, and I've been looking up some ideas for what to make with them.  Their palette is fairly dark and acidic, which is not my usual colour preference, but I want to use them for something.

I also finished sewing the binding on to my Double Wedding Ring quilt.  I did not do a great job on this quilt - accurate repetitive sewing is definitely not my strong point.  There are some terrible bumps of seam allowances as well.  But it was on my bucket list and I've done it, it's finished, and it lies flat which is something.  At the moment I am seeing all the flaws but I still like the colourway (inspired by Sharlene Jorgensen of Quilting from the Heartland) and I glad I finished it.

I did some more work on the 1:24th scale caravan kit bash, it's almost finished now, just need to add some more accessories like pot plants, seat cushions, drinks, an outdoor rug, and work out the external furniture placement etc.  It has been so much fun to have a project to create 3D printed minis for - most of the details and accessories are 3D printed.

This past weekend we were away for our test camp, we do one every year to check everything in the caravan is working and stocked up etc.  Good thing we did - we found out the bathroom sink waste has disconnected when suddenly we had water all over the floor. And particularly annoying as we literally just had the van serviced, this was its first outing.  So it's going back to the dealer for the sink repair, apparently this is a fairly quick repair and we can just wait while they do it. I'd rather find out now that when we are away on a more distant trip.  This site was down in Worcestershire, so I was able to drop my longarm into the Handiquilter dealership for a long overdue service (although they said it was in fact remarkably clean inside) - the first since I had bought it secondhand and their records show the previous owner hadn't done it recently before selling.  Since I was in the area, I also attended their arranged talk by quilting celebrity Stuart Hillard the next day, who was very nice and gave an entertaining talk while showing a bunch of his quilts.  I got a few ideas for possible block layouts for my batik scraps and for my Tilda Something Blue range.

It's a very pretty area, on the edge of the Cotswolds.  We walked into nearby Broadway, and also did a walk between the villages of Laverton and Buckland.  It is definitely chocolate box country, loads of thatched cottages and picturesque golden stone houses.  We liked the campsite as well so may go back again some day.  We had dinner Saturday night in a very picturesque 15C half-timbered inn, sitting in the oldest room which had a huge inglenook fireplace (not lit this time of year).