It was brilliant as well as sunny yesterday, albeit a fiddling chilly as well as windy. Nevertheless, it was a dainty solar daytime for getting out inwards the yard for a while. There were nonetheless annuals to plant, afterward all. After setting gratis the cats, I went straightaway to work.
My foremost chore was to cheque on things inwards the greenhouse. I noticed the ruddy foliage lettuce is starting to germinate. I foremost saw this 1 fiddling seedling.
Then, I started seeing more. In all, iv out of v seeds has germinated. That's a practiced start.
Everything inwards the greenhouse was given a fiddling drinkable of water, as well as thus I planted the remaining annuals inwards their shiny novel pots. Since I'd planned to do this a solar daytime earlier, I hadn't watered the linaria, as well as it was looking a fiddling wilted. It perked upwards yesteryear day's end.
This guy was none also happy most me intruding into his domain. He scolded me the whole fourth dimension I was there.
After that, I took a walk to a greater extent than or less to run across what was blooming. One of the rhododendrons is starting fourth dimension to present its color.
These are the volunteer pansies that are growing inwards the pot amongst the cherry tomato. They remind me of my electrical flow quilt project.
The lilac is covered inwards blossom buds, although null has opened yet.
The apple tree tree has some flowers on it. I wonder if we'll larn to a greater extent than apples this year.
The Gracie Memorial Catnip Garden is looking good. I've seen Smitty imbibing quite a few times.
Also, the clematis is closed to blooming.
After that, I got dorsum to move on the Pansy Mosaic. I wanted to state something most these projects. They're less tedious than they mightiness appear if 1 stays organized. Depending on the pattern, I grade off smaller grids from the larger 1 yesteryear choosing a mutual divisor for both vertical as well as horizontal rows of pieces. When I did the Cardinal Mosaic, the grids were half-dozen x 6. Only 4 worked for this pansy grid, which is 28 pieces across yesteryear xl pieces down. I'd prefer to move amongst to a greater extent than pieces at a time, but the blueprint has other ideas.
So I grade off a 4 x 4 grid on the pattern. The colors are identified yesteryear the background shade as well as the letter. (Those amongst no missive of the alphabet are bluish yesteryear default.) In this case, I'll endure working amongst only yellowish as well as bluish pieces.
The fastest agency I've flora to do this is to foremost lay out all the "whole" pieces as well as leaving out the HST's temporarily. This Quilter's Cut 'n Press mat works good for this. It keeps my pieces organized, but it also makes a dainty fiddling "tray" that I tin order the sack easily deed to the sewing machine.
When the whole pieces are pose out, I brand as well as add together the HST's. Those pieces are what brand these slow-going. When I foremost started this, I was making them 1 at a time, which took forever. Now, I'm looking at the colors I'll demand as well as making them all at once. (They actually can't endure made ahead of fourth dimension because at that topographic point are also many dissimilar color combinations.)
When I convey them all pose out, I chain slice them together from overstep to bottom. Rather than cutting each column apart, I only finger press them opened upwards as well as thus sew together on the side yesteryear side slice until I convey them all sewn together. In the ikon below, the threads are nonetheless connecting them. I convey a modest cutting mat on my ironing board, as well as I tin order the sack cutting them apart amongst my rotary cutter.
Then, I sew together the rows together.
And thus onto the sections already made.
As I complete each 4 x 4 section, I highlight that part on the larger grid thus that I don't lose my place.
And this is how I torture myself on a sunny Sunday. Yesterday, I got quite a flake done. I finished the 4th section.
By day's end, I'd finished the 5th department too. And at nowadays the slice is one-half finished.
Of course, I had lots of companionship for this task. Smitty is enforcing the no-flying-fabric rule. It's a cushy job.
Today I convey a few housekeeping chores, but thus I'll belike pass most of the solar daytime sewing. I'd actually similar to convey this overstep finished before May 1st. Probably, that's a tall order, but I'll convey it good along yesteryear then.