Aren't weekend mornings the best time to think about all sorts of things? things that happened over the past week, what you might want to accomplish over the next few days, gaze out the window and see what show nature is putting on today...
My orchid is blooming like mad right now, and it even has a double bloom- like an egg with a double yolk.
I sewed a bit on my bonnet girls quilt yesterday, and pieced the center quite simply:
I decided to use only 12 of the blocks, and so I have 3 leftover,
they are pretty too, and could be nice sewn into another project, but I'd rather stop at just making one project with these blocks. If anyone else would like to have them, either to sew something, or just to study the way the applique was done, just leave a comment below, and send me your snail mail address in an email and I'll pass them along.
The applique is done quite nicely, you can see some pencil outlines on the white background to show where to place the pieces, as well as on some of the lighter fabrics, I suppose to show where to turn under the cloth to sew it in place. Sort of like a match-up puzzle.
I started a new knitting project, (well, actually two of them)
It is going to be a cardigan for me.
It will be a tweedy dark blue. This picture shows how far I got with the first ball of yarn. It is on 4.5mm needles and it is a simple stockinette stitch-- that's about as easy as you can get!
This is a photo of the goal:
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| from the book, "Knitting at Home, 60 Classics from Ella Rae Designs", by Leanne Prouse |
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It is going to be quite a big project for me, and so I am not going to take any chances in it shrinking later, so I am using a Superwash wool!
You can see that at the moment, the live oak trees are shedding their old leaves. Every day Richard blows off the deck, and every day more leaves drift down, pushed off the tree by the new leaves,
And this morning, there were several cardinals darting around,
I tried to get a photo of them but I was quite far away, and I don't have a zoom lens on my camera, so I apologize for the blurriness,
Cardinals are quite new to me, since they don't travel as far north as Saskatoon. I had only seen them in books before, and I think they are really pretty birds.
I hope you are having a great weekend too, and storing up lots of energy for the week ahead!
