It's rare for me to lose my sewing mo-jo, in addition to sometimes I'm non certain what's belongings me back. Recently, it was the top-stitching for the Garden Sunshine blocks. They had some applique amongst lots of curves, nooks, in addition to crannies, in addition to I wasn't feeling similar doing all that top-stitching. But it's finished now, in addition to hence I'm back, Baby! After I've made the ii June blocks for the Countdown to Christmas sew-along, I'll hold out laid to larn on amongst Clementine's Pawtrait.
As for the Garden Sunshine blocks, I was form of stuck on the wings for the bees. When I tried to brand wings from Angelina fibers the twenty-four hr stream before, I had the Fe too hot in addition to melted them. Actually, I was trying to fuse them to some Heat 'n Bond, in addition to a too-hot Fe ruined them. So, I gave it some idea over black in addition to and then remembered how I'd done it 1 time before. If you've been next for a real long time, in addition to then you lot powerfulness recollect when I made some dragonfly wings for the Psycatdellic quilt.
In this case, I used a fusing medium to fuse them to the quilt. But first, 1 must brand a "fabric sheet" from the Angelina fibers. The await similar this when you lot accept them from the package...a piffling similar angel hair.
You tin forcefulness out sort of flatten them out in addition to and then hitting them amongst a hot Fe to brand a shimmery apartment piece.
And then, you lot tin forcefulness out process them only similar whatsoever fabric, albeit a heavily starched fabric. It's strong similar a sparse slice of cardboard. In my ruminations yesterday, I institute a leftover slice from this one-time project.
So I made a template for the bees' wings in addition to and then cutting out ii sets of wings.
The work amongst fusing them amongst Heat 'n Bond (or whatsoever other product) is that it takes the shimmer out of the fibers, in addition to hence for this project, I decided to drive only sticking the wings amongst a dab of stuff glue.
Then I used this pearlescent metallic element thread to zig zag the edges down.
And that worked meliorate than I idea it would.
It was tempting to redo the dragonfly wings, but I left them inwards the light-green I'd already fused down, in addition to and then used a buttonhole stitch to top-stitch the residue of the applique. Here are the June blocks for the Garden Sunshine quilt.
While I was at the grocery store yesterday, I picked upward some blueberries. I had a yen to bake something, in addition to these Blueberry Crumb Bars from Smitten Kitchen caught my eye.
I alone made one-half the recipe in addition to baked it inwards an 8 x 8 baking dish. It was slowly plenty to purpose one-half the ingredients. For the one-half egg, I used only the egg white. Mike said he wished he could give it to a greater extent than than 5 stars. We had it amongst some vanilla H2O ice cream. Really yummy, in addition to real slowly to make. It's similar huckleberry jam betwixt ii layers of streusel.
This morning, I went out early on to accept some pictures of the blooming daylilies. Now I know why they're called "day" lilies. Like hence many flowers, they closed upward inwards cooler temperatures, in addition to hence I'll get got to leave of absence 1 time to a greater extent than afterward in addition to larn them when they're opened. For now, you lot tin forcefulness out come across how they await inwards the early on morning.
The plants are loaded amongst flowers.
Also, at that topographic point are at to the lowest degree 3 flowers on the calla lily, in addition to this 1 is starting to present its color. I'm form of excited most these since I forgot nosotros fifty-fifty planted them.
Also, the echinacea are getting real closed to putting on a show. I get got 3 plants from the master vi I planted, in addition to each is a unlike color. This 1 is a to a greater extent than iridescent purple.
This 1 is to a greater extent than yellow.
The tertiary 1 is pink, but its flowers are nevertheless inwards tight buds.
Also, the cherry tomatoes are coming along. This is the Sunsweet variety, in addition to they're similar candy when they're ripe.
Usually, I wearable a caput light when I'm going manus embroidery. In the morning, when I nevertheless get got a bedhead, I don't hear having it strapped to my head. But when I'm, say, waiting inwards an airport, I don't necessarily desire to spread embroidery geekdom throughout the airdrome yesteryear strapping it on in addition to flashing everyone who glances inwards my direction...and besides, I don't necessarily desire to give myself a chapeau caput either.
So I decided to give this a try, in addition to it works pretty well. You set it around your cervix in addition to you lot tin forcefulness out curvature the low-cal to where you lot desire it. Each terminate has a low-cal amongst an private switch, hence you lot tin forcefulness out get got both lights turned on, or only one. I wishing the arms were a piffling longer, which would allow me to larn the low-cal further away from my hands. As it is, it casts a shadow over my travel a piffling bit, but the minute low-cal gives me the capacity to brand adjustments in addition to larn the low-cal where I desire it. Anyway...I give the production iv stars out of five. It in all probability makes a great majority light, fifty-fifty if you're non interested inwards it for manus sewing.
Mike in addition to I are going on a daytime engagement to the Backyard Bird Shop today. We've been wanting to set upward a plane position in addition to hopefully attract the swallows dorsum to our yard. As it is the starlings corking them into edifice their nests elsewhere. I paid a see to the plane store a pair of weeks agone in addition to was able to position our item birds every bit Violet-Green Swallows. We get got a 20% off coupon to purpose during the calendar month of June, in addition to the days are waning. On the agency home, we'll get got tiffin somewhere. Seems similar a skillful agency to pass our Saturday.