I had a fun day with my art quilter friends yesterday. After they left I pulled out this stack of blocks from years past. I looked back in my photos and it was Feb. 2010 when I first showed them. I tried a few fabrics for sashing but didn't come to any conclusion. Actually I was just too tired to look any more so I left the blocks on the wall. Maybe I'll get an idea for them today.
I can't ever get a photo of a Coneflower bloom before the bugs start eating the petals.
I did the final cleaning off of tables, did a little cutting with my Studio die cutter and baked 2 batches of cookies. It cooled off a little last night, lower humidity too. It looks like Tuesday will be the beginning of some beautiful days this week. I really didn't like Miami humidity and heat for 2 days over the weekend.
While putting things away in the basement I found some more light triangles that will work for my flying geese blocks. I got 39 of them sewn after I took this photo.
I took this photo from my dining room window. This is the Blackberry Lily again with Coneflowers and the blue bell flowers. The lilies have darker red accents than it shows here.
I mixed two batches of cookie dough and vacuumed the basement yesterday. Then I started cleaning off tables and I need to work more on that today. Here are my three colors of Rose of Sharon, photos I took a couple days ago. Yesterday was hot and steamy and probably would have fogged my camera lens.
It's clean up time in the basement because the art quilters are coming Monday. As I came across many piles of scraps I had to take a detour to the sewing machine and have some "relax and play" time. I love doing crazy piecing.
The above photo is before trimming and this is after trimming. This isn't a project, just playtime at this point.
I noticed my tiger lilies are starting to bloom. They look so pretty against the periwinkle of the balloon flowers.
This is my view from the dining room window to my jungle flower bed. I have one more area with some tall weeds to take care of. I made a lot of headway on it earlier this week. If you click and enlarge the photo you can see all of the coneflowers blooming.
The colorwash is sewn together and stay-stitched around the edges. The camera wants to focus on the light area so the corners look darker in a photo than in real life. This is the largest colorwash I have ever done and it was a challenge to design it sideways on the double design wall. Now comes the job of basting it and ditch quilting it in the vertical seams.
My blackberry lilies are blooming. I have them in 2 places and neither is ideal. I don't really have a place to move them to though.
The lemon lily is also blooming. I mowed the lawn last night at 7 when it was cooling off. The humidity was still low yesterday but is going back up with the heat wave coming this weekend.
I only sewed 4 rows yesterday but I joined the first two sections of 6 rows with the 4 row section so there are 16 sewn, 2 rows laying over by my machine and the 5 rows at the top waiting to be sewn.
I started out the day in long pants and a long sleeve shirt, sprayed my clothes with mosquito repellant and went out to clear some of the jungle that my back garden had become.
Even though I dug up and shared a lot of coneflowers last year, I have plenty all across the back garden this year.
I only have the pink, or as they call it, Purple Coneflower. I bought a red one and the next year it was white. It also died a couple years later. These are a native variety from a friend many years ago.
The blooms on this hosta are trying to be so tall. My one gardening friend told me that everything will try to grow as tall as its tallest neighbor because that is the only way it can get the sunlight. This plant had some tall weeds around it that I cleared out yesterday.
