The weather was perfect yesterday for doing yardwork. I cut down many peonies and volunteer trees. I was so tired last night I needed some no-brainer sewing. I checked out the 2 boxes of 2.5" batik strips.
These 2 project boxes hold all that is left of the strips I started cutting about 15 or more years ago. I took them out of the plastic drawer units (5 drawers that used to be full and was now down to 3 drawers) and put them in these boxes so I could get rid of those 2 drawer units.
In the first box I saw several orange/green strips so I paired them with dark strips (black, brown, green). I ended up with 20 pairs and got 14 of them sewn to this stage.
Three of them are sewn like this now. There are many combinations that I could cut these sets into but remember, this was no-brainer sewing, so no further decisions were made, just wonderful long seams to sew.
The weather will be nice today too, but I think 2 days in a row outside would be too much. In fact I may wait until next week when it will be even cooler to finish the garden clean up.
6 comments:
Nice to have all those strips cut and ready for just some fun sewing. Sometimes you just need to sew along for fun....:)))
46 here this morning--grocery day for me-- so I will be going out early..then a duct cleaning serviceman will be here in the afternoon to give us an estimate...our system is 20 yrs old so it needs attention.
Hope your weather stays nice...hugs, Julirose
I worked in the garden yesterday too, I will do a little more today as what I want to work on doesn't require me to bend over much - dismantling the netting and frame from the blackberries - the next job is do I want to get rid of the blackberries or not - if I do the area will go to strawberry runners that need thinning. I will require more than several weeks to get it all done.
Garden work is exhausting but very satisfying, right? It is cooler here, but still, I want 60s and 70s!
As you're stripping the garden you're stripping in the sewing room. Progress on both!
No-brainer sewing for me often results in new starts! It can be dangerous.
I feel your tiredness! I was out working in the yard too after work and by 7 pm I was done - physically, not done with the work! LOL!! Those strips are nice to have to do some easy sewing. I have a pile of those too that I cut up not to long ago.
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