Happily, I'm non going to lecture you lot nigh dental hygiene this morning. No, we're talking nigh my obsession alongside embroidery floss, which toll me nigh one-half a day's sewing yesterday. There I was stitching along on the Dancing Chickens block, as well as I finished the department that was inwards my hoop.
And, coincidentally, I'd merely told my friend Wendy how I usually boundary my stitching fourth dimension to 2 lengths of floss (which, when separated, plant out to vi lengths). Sometimes I exercise to a greater extent than though...like when I'm coming to the halt of a piece...and hence I merely desire to popular off along stitching, as well as stitching, as well as stitching until it's finished. Well. I wasn't quite finished alongside this when I quit yesterday, but the interior is finished.
This forenoon I'll destination off the running stitch some the exterior edge, as well as this ane volition larn into the finished pile.
With that hence close, I decided it was fourth dimension to delineate out the final iii blocks for "A Year of Hearts." I started these blocks final April, as well as I started alongside April's heart. Now I've stitched the whole year, as well as I'm circling some dorsum to January, February, as well as March.
And when those are finished, I'll travel cook to start something new, which is why I spent hence much fourth dimension alongside my embroidery floss boxes yesterday.
I've had my oculus on this Crabapple Hill Studio blueprint called Pieces of the Past. I've been watching a adult woman on Instagram stitch this. She identifies herself on Instagram equally "barteldes_regina" as well as she does the most beautiful embroidery I've e'er seen. This blueprint has been inwards my to-be-stitched pile for a long time, as well as watching her has inspired me to larn started on it. It makes me intend of my grandmother. This is the motion-picture present of the finished quilt from the Crabapple Hill Studio website.
When I bought the pattern, I likewise purchased the floss kit that goes alongside it, as well as hence I spent some fourth dimension yesterday making certain I had all the floss skeins as well as looking for whatsoever duplicates inwards my stash. I don't desire to start a novel skein if I already direct hold ane going inwards the same color. And this ended upwards taking agency to a greater extent than of my hateful solar daytime than expected.
And that was entirely the starting fourth dimension of the fiddly things I had to exercise yesterday. You know how you lot larn lilliputian tasks piled upwards that volition entirely direct hold a infinitesimal or two...only hence you lot direct hold a dozen or to a greater extent than of those lilliputian infinitesimal or 2 tasks, as well as it ends upwards taking hours instead of minutes. Well, perchance that doesn't travel on to you, but it happens some hither all the time. And merely ane of those tasks was to fill upwards the plane feeders as well as supercede the hummingbird feeder I brought inwards when nosotros left habitation inwards September. I didn't desire it getting all icky spell nosotros were gone, as well as hence I brought it in. Then, I never pose it out, as well as the hummingbirds direct hold been buzzing some the window. And you lot know for their size, they are ferocious lilliputian birds. I could listen them yelling, "Hey! WTF?" So anyway...peace as well as serenity on the plane forepart now.
While I was out, I noticed our lilliputian dwarf Japanese maple tree is putting on its best present of the season.
On beyond, you lot tin move encounter the other maple tree, completely dressed inwards ruby-red now.
So it was some 3:00 earlier I made my agency into the sewing room yesterday. Smitty was waiting, tapping his paw impatiently.
As long equally we're taking pictures, he was practicing his poses for his latest gig equally a whisker model.
Or perchance it was a white necktie model...I forget. His talents are inwards high demand.
With hence much of my fourth dimension yesterday taken upwards alongside flossing, I entirely finished ane block for the Garden Sunshine quilt. This is September's block:
There are 2 blocks for October, as well as I had the foremost of them cutting as well as set out when I needed to quit for the day.
When I left the sewing room, I covered it alongside a protective shield because, you lot know. Mice.
So today is the hateful solar daytime I've told myself I'll start quilting the Wine Country quilt, as well as I volition larn started on it. But I'm going to destination the blocks for Garden Sunshine first, as well as hence I'll direct hold that ane caught up. Quilting in all probability won't larn started until after this afternoon. Also, it's a CSA pick-up hateful solar daytime today, hence I'll direct hold to caput out for that this afternoon. There's merely ane quick housekeeping chore to do, but sewing volition direct hold upwards most of the day. I'm looking frontward to finishing off the Dancing Chickens block, as well as hence I'll start there.