Flossie

Good morning, my friends. It's another sunny day here at the Three Cats Ranch. We were supposed to get some rain over the past week. We might have gotten a few nighttime showers, but nothing to speak of. A little moisture would have been appreciated. I desperately need to get outside and weed the herb garden today. There are a few other little weedy spots, but nothing like we faced earlier. Also, I need to do a little grooming on the dahlias. Today will be a good day for all of that, but it would have been easier to pull the weeds if it had rained a little. One of these days I'll be able to control the weather, but so far...I got nothing.

As expected, there wasn't any time for sewing yesterday...no machine sewing, anyway. I spent a little extra time on my slow stitching, finishing up June's block for A Year in the Garden. 

Here are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.

I like the unconventional colors in these. I'm not using the exact colors Jenny of Elefantz used in hers. Probably I selected floss colors based on the name of the color.

And as long as we're talking about selecting colors, I took the finished June block downstairs to switch out my project boxes. While I was there, I decided to raid my floss stash and choose floss color for the "short" project I'll be doing eventually. I have one other stitchery ahead of this Autumn Harvest Pumpkin, but it shouldn't take long. When that's finished, I'll be on to this one. This is the picture from the pattern cover.

Crabapple Hill Stitcheries are almost all done in Cosmo floss. I'm mostly a DMC gal, if for no other reason than DMC is more widely available where I live. Since the floss colors on the pattern were given by number only, I spent some time looking up images of the color numbers on my iPad, and then choosing something similar from my stash. Some of the colors barely look any different, but I think these will work out. When I was finished, these were my selections.

So I'll set that aside for the time being. Next up, I'll be working on this third block for the Le Jardin project.

These are fun to stitch. When I've finished this, I'll add some piecing to the three blocks I have so far. They should have strips all around, log-cabin style. I'd rather do them as I go than wait until the end when there will be nine of them to finish.

If there's time for machine sewing today, I'll get started making another row of blocks for the Land and Sea quilt. This is what I have for this quilt so far.

When I started this quilt originally, I wanted to make six rows of blocks, and so the next row would be the last. I might decide to make it larger. I can always add more to the width and/or the length. When I have the next row of blocks laid out when the rest, I'll decide whether it's ready to be sewn together.

Okay, so I need to eat some breakfast, and then I'll get on with my day. There's stitching and weeding to do. Enjoy your Saturday, Everybody!