I went to our twice monthly sewing group yesterday morning and took cutting to do. I didn't feel like hauling a machine. After I got home I tested a new die that I got for my Studio cutter. I will start cutting for a quilt or 2 with it soon. I need to get ready for a garage sale at the end of this month so I'll spend a couple hours a day on that. I'm also reading the next in line Sara Paretsky book and got about half way through yesterday afternoon. Hopefully I'll make some decisions on a few of the 'in progress' quilts today.
I know that fabric looked yellow yesterday but it is really yellow/green. This comparison helps to show it a little better.
I have 2 pieces of that fabric so I put it up on the design wall and put the piece in progress on top of them. If you compare the center and the edge, there is definitely a difference. I'm still undecided so another day of it hanging on the wall.
My son is possibly making patterns for some parts for the restoration of a historic building in downtown Chicago. He had only seen photos of it so we took a drive down to see it in person. This is on the way back to the tollway as we passed the Tru*mp tower on the right. I took this photo with my phone while we were stopped at a red light. I couldn't get at the right angle to get the whole building in the photo.
We passed the Art Institute where the lions were wearing large Chicago Blackhawk helmets. If you don't follow hockey, they are in the playoffs.
The afternoon turned stormy with our tornado sirens blaring. That is the first time I have heard them in years. We got lots of heavy rain but missed getting any of the hail that fell in towns around us.
I have added 3 rounds of green and am not sure if I'm done. It is about 37" square right now.
I have 2 pieces of this yellow/green which I have contemplated adding on all 4 sides and then I can trim this into a squarer shape. I will be gone part of today and part of tomorrow so I think this will simmer for a couple days.
My green scraps weren't long enough for the next rounds on the sunshine/rainbow piece so I pulled candidates off the shelves of my stash. I didn't consider any batiks this time.
Then I pinned them up on the wall where I thought they might go and took a photo of them.
I imported the photo into my computer and used the software that came with my Canon camera to crop the yardage so I was just seeing strips. I may reconsider on a couple of the really dark greens and then I'll start cutting.
In my front garden everything is growing together. The balloon flowers started out about 18" away from this Husker Red Penstemon. The Evening Primrose just travels underground everywhere so some of that is in there as well as the Coral Bell plant reaching out to the sides. I hesitate to dig it all up and try to untangle it. Balloon flowers don't like to be transplanted according the my perennial book. They do however reseed wherever they want.
I added blue strips Saturday but forgot to post the photo yesterday.
Yesterday I added some turquoise. Today I will look for the green strips to add. It is over 30" now. The colors are truer in the photo above.
This is the view from my studio window right now. The peonies are almost done blooming.
This is how much two of the porch pots have filled in so far.
This pot has some of the coleus that I saved over the winter in water. They are really getting big already.
Today is sewing circle at church so I don't know how much sewing time I will have.
I worked on this top several times yesterday and finished sewing it together. It is so much prettier in person.
I guess that is because the prints show up when you see it closer.
I think this is my favorite block.
This is where my cacti are residing for the summer. Now that the tree is gone in front of the house they get a little too much sun so when it gets really hot I'll probably have to take them inside and put them back out after 2 p.m. My other option would be to make some kind of cover for the rack early in the day.
5 people with no email links asked me questions last week. This is a reminder that I have an email link on my right side bar. If you really want an answer, email me. If you have a Blogger account and have made it private, there is no link. If you have Google+ there usually is no link. If you haven't enabled your email address in your Google account, there is no link. I have no way to contact you to answer your questions.
The last 2 stars are sewn.
All 12 together, but I need to rearrange so the backgrounds are in a more pleasing order.
I took the 16 patch rows off the design walls and labeled them with row numbers.
I didn't get as much done as I thought I would. I only have 5 rows out of 12 sewn together so far.
