Good morning, my friends. It turned into a pretty good day yesterday. We were expecting quite a bit of rain. It was gray and cloudy when we left home, but dry. We had our breakfast, ran our errands, did our grocery shopping, and had it all put away before noon. And then, it turned into a pretty nice afternoon with sunshine for most of the day. Today we're expecting more rain. If the forecast is to be believed, we'll have thunder and lightning by this afternoon. We're keeping our fingers crossed we won't lose power. A word to the wise (that would be me): Get out and fill those bird feeders early.
Before we left, I had some time to spend on the Birdbath block. This is stitching up pretty quickly. It's possible I could finish it this morning.
It'll need borders added to it, but that won't stop me from moving on to the "Short" project on my list. There are 21 projects on my short list. I asked Mr. Random which one I should do next.
Ahhhh...17.
♪♪It was a very good year.
♫ And number 17 on my list happens to be this "
Love Sampler" from Kathy Schmitz.
I've done a couple of her samplers..."
Liberty"
Her samplers are fun to stitch for the variety of embroidery stitches included. For this one, she would have me use a Valdani perle cotton floss. Since I still have plenty of DMC 321 (Christmas Red), I'll stick with that.
When we were finished with our morning's outing, I was able to spend some time on my quilt binding, turning the third corner. I should have no problem finishing this off today.
There was some decision-making to do in the sewing room. Happily, my cat was there to give his purrfessional recommendations.
Having realized that "Tulip Time" was finished and ready for quilting, I cut a back and binding strips for that. Now it'll go on the list of small-quilts-to-be-quilted.
Mainly, I just wanted to get it out of the way so that I could sew the binding on "Hawksbill Honu." That'll be next after I finish the binding on "Seasons."
And then I turned my attention to finishing off this little "Bunny Bait" quilt. It started as a single quilt block 12-1/2 inches square. I wanted to give it a bright green border to start. It took me a long time to find fabrics I liked for this. For one thing, I was literally scraping the bottom of my green scrap bin to come up with a strip of this bright green long enough to make it around.
And then I searched and searched and searched for some scraps of the border fabric used in the quilt below.
I could not find a strip, a scrap, a thread, a morsel...nothing. I can only think I used every last square inch of it when I made this baby quilt for one of Matthew's friends.
Okay...I give up. Moving on, I found this orange in my yardage. It has been in my stash positively forever. There was plenty for a border and for a back, and that's what I used.
And then I used the last little bit of that green stripe to cut binding strips. It ends up at 18-1/2 inches square. Now it too will head to the small-quilts-to-be-quilted pile.
Okay, so there are a lot of little finishes in my future. What's next? Well, when I finish the binding on "Seasons" and "Hawksbill Honu," it'll be time to start on the next quilt to be quilted. Next in line is "Ruth's Legacy." Already, I've spent some time smoothing and ironing the back, and it's draped over Eliza awaiting the arrival of my quilting needle. I'm thinking I'll use a colorful variegated thread for this, but I haven't made any decisions about it yet.
Also, reaching the last Saturday in June, I'm informed that July's color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge will be "aqua." I'll want to make July's block next. These are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.
When that's finished, I'll be ready to return to my list of WIP's. First up will be to make five more blocks for the Stair Steps quilt, and that will give me a finished quilt top.
So there's plenty to keep me busy on the sewing front. I'm afraid my days of zero to-do's have come to an end. I need to do a little housework today, and I need to fill the bird feeders. Honestly, when it comes to granulated sugar, the hummingbirds are slurping us out of house and home. Lately, I'm buying a bag of sugar every time we go to the grocery store. Also, I haven't checked on things outside for a couple of days. The blueberries are getting very close to ripe, and we need to be paying attention to the cherries too. I'm hopeful we'll get to the cherries before the raccoons do.
Okay, so there's plenty to keep me busy. Slow-stitching on Le Jardin is next. Time to be on my way.
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