Heading Northward

Good morning, my friends. My day got all turned around by the weather yesterday. Thunder and lightning and rain in the morning put all of my gardening plans on hold. This morning I'm seeing my PCP for my annual physical, and so the garden is going to have to spend another day without me. 

My first stop on yesterday's agenda was to stitch up Tiny Treasure #62. This one has satin stitch, French knots, stem stitch, and fly stitch. This morning’s Tiny Treasure will probably have to wait until I’m home later today. (It’s a sad morning when I can’t get my slow stitching done.)

Heading out to check on things, I was happy to see the green beans under this pole structure have all followed their leader and are climbing their poles. There are several plants in each pot, and so I’m still watching the shorter tendrils. The ones to the rear and outside the frame still have some work to do, but I’m confident they will cede to my wishes eventually. 

Oooh…and there’s color on this zinnia. It looks as if it will be a yellow one. (I think I planted a mix of colors.)

The sunflower is opening more each day. 

Here’s an eensy-weensy pickling cucumber.

Another color of  poppy has bloomed in the bee garden.

And whoa! I was so excited about the one tomato I thought might be turning color in yesterday’s post, and I completely missed the one that is actually turning red. Look at that!!!

Okay. Well seeing an actual red tomato nearly gave me the vapors. I decided to go back in the house and sew. Now all five rows are finished in the Shop Hop quilt.

Here’s a look at the back.

If there’s time for sewing today. I’d like to get a start on the horizontal sashings. Again, I’m stumped about what to do there, but I’ll figure out something.

In the sewing room, Sadie was there to help me with the next two Northern Wilderness blocks. She’s been to Alaska. She knows all about this.

These are the blocks I’ll be making for this round. I’ll start with the “Glacier” block. And this is another one where they’ve used black for the mountains. Mine are going to be a deep blue.

Also, this "Blueberry" block. I can't say I remember seeing blueberries in Alaska, but we did see a bear or two.

So, I'm starting with the Glacier block, piecing together the background. This is the quilt block. It looks a little wonky in this image because the sides wanted to curl up.

Then, I added sides, a top, and a bottom, and I was ready to start on the applique. What you see below is fused and cut out, but not fused to the background. There are still a couple of pieces missing. In any case, this is one I'll want to fuse to a pressing sheet first to make sure I get all the overlaps overlapping where they need to be with no gaps. Doing it on a pressing sheet allows me to reposition things before committing to fusing them all together.

Okay, so I need to eat some breakfast, and then I think I might have enough time to start on my slow stitching. At the appointment with my dermatologist earlier this week, he took three biopies. I’m hoping today’s appointment will involve significantly fewer needles and blades. Fingers crossed.