Wednesday, May 17, 2023
No rest for the wicked!
Last evening was crazy! Stopped at the library, paid my credit card bill, packed a small box to ship, took out the trash bin, fixed a goof on a sampler, watered the plants, and finished quilting the other half of that t-shirt.
Wanda of Exuberant Color, showed lots of pictures of her gardens, so I needed to show her I hadn't killed the cora bell she sent me last year. It is getting big! Ignore the weeds! LOL! I still need to get to the bed along the garage. I need to allocated 4 hours taking down the netting I use to keep the deer from eating the cora bells, pulling all the weeds and then installing the new fence I bought last week.
Wanda also showed a test block she made of a schoolhouse using her die cutter. It reminded me of the cross stitch piece I stitched in 1984 with schoolhouses on it. It is on Aida, but I don't know the count or the designer.
I am going to have to set aside the Harley quilt again and get the cover made for the keyboard for my nephew. We have a show on Saturday and it would be helpful to try it out to make sure it works. I went and dug out the pieces I had already quilted so tonight I will trim the pieces to size and start the assembly process.
I had to try a couple times before I got my initials correctly stitched. Then I decided I wanted to add more little motifs to fill in the empty spaces. I have a couple more to add and then this will be done. Here is where I was yesterday and where I am now.
I have 2 other pieces of that Coral Bell and one of them has mostly purple leaves and the other one has mixed green and purple. It gets quite large.
ReplyDeleteI like all of your little motifs in the blank spaces on the cross stitch piece.
I like the adds to your sampler piece, especially the skull! Where do the Harley shirts come from for your annual Harley quilt? Hope you have good weather for the show!
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