It's going to endure a adept day...I tin experience it inward my quilting hands. There's exactly ane to a greater extent than go-around inward the outer border of Wind inward the Whiskers, as well as hence that puppy volition endure heading for the complete line. But earlier I larn started on that...let's dorsum upward to the kickoff of the day.
The latest Snow Globe block is off to a adept start. Whenever I start anew on a block, I ever bring to inaugural of all construct clean upward all the leftover bits of floss from the terminal fourth dimension I worked on it. That's what you lot run into here:
If I'm remembering right, this ane includes all 5 colors of sparkle floss used inward this project. Of course, I can't do proper slow-stitching without my lap warmer cat. She was yesterday's photograph for the photo-a-day project. Yesterday's prompt was "Begins alongside 'S'"...and that was easy. I laissez passer on off to bring ii living things that start alongside "S".
After that, I had to gird upward my loins for a trip to the grocery store. I managed to larn through the trip without killing anyone, although I was on the razor's border of leaping across the counter as well as onto the cashier. Recognizing this would alone tiresome downwards an already world-record-breakingly tiresome process, I held myself inward check. It was a really unopen call.
When I got home, I unloaded the groceries, ate exactly about lunch, as well as hence got busy alongside my complimentary displace quilting. My goal was to quilt the inner border, as well as I'd selected this motif from ane I flora on Pinterest.
Looks piece of cake enough, right? In fact, it was. I did a piffling practise line, as well as hence committed it to the quilt.
After that, I pulled the quilt off the car hence that I could charge a practise slice for the outer border motif. In the process, I flora the missing applique piece.
Of course, I did. Now that I've made a novel one, fused it downwards as well as sewn it on, it alone makes feel that the master copy ane would present itself.
So the motif I've chosen for the outer border is exactly about other I flora on Pinterest. I intend originally I saw it on Instagram. It's non every bit complicated every bit it looks. You come upward inward from the laissez passer on as well as brand a piffling swirl, doubling dorsum on the exterior of the swirl to the "petals" of the flower. When you've gone most of the agency around, you lot echo dorsum inward ane direction, hence the other, as well as done. And, heck...I figured I could do that.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twain of the "petals" are a piffling wider than I'd similar them, but I'm confident I tin clit this off. And since I'd worked on this quilt for 3 days inward a row, I gave myself the residuum of the afternoon off. I'll start on the outer border today, as well as I'm hoping I tin larn it finished. If I do, it'll endure receive for binding.
The alone other affair to laissez passer on off yesterday was the arrival of this 36-fat quarter packet from a Massdrop buy I made recently. Since I'd used most all of my dark as well as white scraps inward the Rainbow Jubilee quilt, I wanted to larn exactly about other grouping. I've already picked out my projection for 2019, as well as it's going to role blacks as well as whites too.
This is the Black & White collection from Michael Miller...not that I pay much attending to textile designers or names, but I know exactly about of you lot do.
And what fun these were to become through. Here's the icon from the Massdrop page that drew me in.
I pulled off the ribbon as well as looked through them...well, don't you lot intend these are exactly about of my favorites.
And how nigh these many ways alongside polka dots.
So that was a overnice agency to halt the day.
It rained difficult most of the solar daytime yesterday. Today is much nicer...chilly, but for now, blueish heaven as well as sunshine. I merely must larn exterior to empty the compost pail as well as fill upward the hummingbird feeder. We bring Annas hummingbirds year-round at our location, as well as hence I set nutrient out for them. The kitties similar to sit down nigh the window where the feeder is as well as chatter at them. There's ane small-scale housekeeping task to do today, but the residuum volition endure NBFMQ (Nothing But Free Motion Quilting).