It's embarrassing to acknowledge I did most nix yesterday. Actually, it's non all that embarrassing, because I knew I was going to sit down correct here...as if I could view it inwards a crystal ball...and write these real words. And yet, I kept on going...or non going...with my slothful ways. I conduct maintain no regrets.
Earlier inwards the morning, Sue together with I walked. The path nosotros chose yesterday is an in-and-out walk, pregnant nosotros plow around together with walk dorsum the agency nosotros came. We locomote yesteryear through a pocket-sized common along our meandering, together with there, nosotros saw this guy:
He was skittering around the bottom of the tree, trying to avoid beingness seen. But I knows me some squirrels. I but peered around the tree together with when I caught sight of him, I said, "I view you." Then he ran around to where nosotros could view him inwards obviously sight together with looked at me.
"Yeah, I'm talking to you!" I said, using my best Robert DeNiro voice. He but kept looking at us. I suspect he was hoping I was going to give him a Frito, or a Dorito, or a Cheetoh, but no. He stayed that agency long plenty to conduct maintain his pic taken, together with and therefore nosotros walked on. In hindsight, I wonder if he mightiness conduct maintain posed for a selfie alongside me. At this point, it's impossible to say.
There was no fourth dimension for slow-stitching earlier I left the identify to become walking, but I made fourth dimension when I was habitation again. I had the concluding catch nearly finished when I tipped dorsum inwards my chair for a nap. I had cats aplenty for this exercise, together with nosotros all but sat there...almost the entire afternoon. Just earlier dinner, together with feeling equally if I'd been much likewise lazy, I finished off the concluding heart...mainly therefore I'd conduct maintain something to demonstrate for living together with breathing yesterday.
That's the lastly of them. Here are all 12 hearts together:
Already, I conduct maintain a computer programme for setting them into a quilt, together with I call upwards it volition live cute. Probably I'll conduct maintain it along for finishing when nosotros caput southward this winter. So, except for spending some fourth dimension looking at my adjacent project, I did nix else all day.
My adjacent projection was a lilliputian intimidating, together with therefore I didn't spent a lot of fourth dimension earlier deciding to set it away together with await at it this morning. I'm going to start on this 1 from Crabapple Hill Studio. It has some of the fancier stitches. I was intimidated yesteryear them when I kickoff encountered them on the Sundress quilt. Now I'm seeking them out...probably I'm inwards a masochistic stage of life. I tin call upwards of no other explanation. Still, this is going to live a pretty quilt if I tin draw off some of those fancier stitches. This designing is called "Pieces of the Past." It makes me call upwards of my grandmother. This is the pic from the pattern:
I similar it for the embroidery, for sure. But I also similar those crazy quilt blocks on the sides. I went poking through my stash for some appropriate fabrics for the crazy quilt blocks. Probably I'm going to conduct maintain to buy some pretty together with prissy calicos for that.
When I start a novel embroidered quilt, I unremarkably cutting the fabrics for all of the blocks first. Usually, they are all the same size. This 1 has blocks inwards all unlike sizes, together with therefore I'll conduct maintain to cutting equally I go. They are also colored alongside crayon, together with therefore each 1 volition conduct maintain some fourth dimension but to teach laid upwards for stitching. The designing specified using "white fairy frost" fabric, together with therefore I will. You've in all likelihood seen the "fairy frost" fabrics. They come upwards inwards all unlike colors, together with they conduct maintain a shimmer to them. Last black I tested it out to brand certain I could truly line together with color on it, together with it seemed to operate fine.
The kickoff block I'll live doing is cutting to sixteen x xviii inches. It's the plate yous view at the top of the picture below.
So that's what I'll live doing next. There's nix to stitch correct now, together with my hands are starting to tremble. There isn't a infinitesimal to waste. Lives depend on it.
And that was my twenty-four hr menstruum of nix yesterday. I'll teach to a greater extent than done this weekend, together with I'll teach dorsum to the Semper Fidelis quilt. Those Friendship stars aren't going to sew together themselves.