We have had serious fog these past few mornings. The heat is way up there and the humidity is 98% so thundershowers have been enhancing the weed production and the fog is kinda hiding them. lol This has turned out to be a challenging year for making headway on all the flowerbeds. The good news is that the new plants are settling in nicely though. We have all the trees we potted up in spring to find places for. Good thing they got a nice start in their 'nursery' by the barn as we've changed their placement several times. The Rooster is right into cutting grass now and he was not impressed with my 'scalping' of the back yard. Gee, at one time all he cared about was the height of impending weeds. ;^)
When it is too hot to be out I am in the sweat shop ironing. :( I have the cutting down to a fine art. My math skills impressed me as I have slivers and a two by three inch scrap left from each piece which is great as these fabrics are fiddly to work with so I do not want leftovers. I can get four blocks if I don't make any mistakes and there have been two or three. :( I will mix and match to get four different blocks and the plan is to make four quadrants. If my math holds out I will have enough to run an extra row between the quadrants for a nice quilt for the foot of the bed.
I quickly switched off my steam iron. I'm using an old thrift shop iron and some spray starch. Spraying the fabric has made all the difference in the world. :)
The colour ways are roses, yellows, blues and greens. I'm liking it; a perfect summer quilt. The bottom right block was before I began starching and I'm hoping I won't have to use it. :{
As you can tell from the first photo the fog is just about gone and it is time to do some sweating outside before I can get back to sweating and sewing. We moved the laying hens back to their home coop and its a race between me and them as to who'll have the weeds gone first! ;^)
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Yep, those are exactly the fabrics that I had and used in a quilt last year! I love the soft colors.
Such strange weather so many places. We are humid/muggy and not used to that at all. Southern California is burning and flooding at the same time and we are still bone dry. Love the colors of your summer quilt. Thank goodness for spray starch. I am ignoring my weeds...shhh don't tell the Mr.
Happy days dear...
good morning! I'm sitting out on the porch having my coffee and reading "my" blogs. Birds are chirruping...a different sound from their spring singing. It's the perfect time of the day...still fresh and cool, but promises to be corking hot in just a short while. That is going to be a very pretty summery quilt. Though its hard for me to imagine wanting to sit under one at the moment, lol! Will you leave the batting out so it will be a light for those " just a touch of frost" mornings?
It's been a beautiful, breezy summer day here, for a few, just ideal for me. I could finally vacuum ... so much awful'r to do on those humid, damp muggy days, which abounded last week.
But, my goodness, Elle, are you out of your mind ironing in such heat ? ... must have central air ?
Beautiful photo of the receding fog ;)
central air! snort. A fan in the central upstairs hallway. I remember when there were six of the seven of us jammed in this old 2 story farm house and I was ironing my stash. This was way before the new windows! Crazy! I don't even like ironing clothes but I had been on a major stash binge and by golly it was going in my shelves. I could hardly steer the iron for my sweaty paws. dumb!!! I was a keener in those days. lol
"Best Press is my friend" -- a new mantra! It's wonderful to use scraps but when the fabric is mismatched as to "flimsiness"...a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do! ;-)
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