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Hello, hello. Let me collect my thoughts here...Storm Elsa has come and gone, no wind, no damage. These photos are thunderstorms that preceded Elsa.
Mo has gone for a little sleepaway so it will be quiet here.
Before I show you my meagre recent quilt stuff, a few other random notes:
My friend and I went to the $$$ health food store for supplements and tonics. I promised myself flowers because with the new food delivery, fresh flowers aren't an option.
Look at the price of 5 peony stems! Though Kel says Trader Joe's has peonies and no doubt they're more reasonably priced.
Beautiful but far beyond my budget. [I got Telenti gelato, chocolate black raspberry, instead! HERE Look, Kit, they deliver!]
I did cut flowers from my deck pots. In case they'd be destroyed by Elsa wind. I hope the pots reflower.
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Quilting update:
I finished piecing my Pineapple body section.
and very carefully cut it out. The big star on my paper copy is the stem, the patterns are just superimposed.
It will be needle turned and all those triangle corners , cut to 1/8" seam allowance and laboriously turned in---!? A disaster waiting to happen. Instead I did a facing, a pillow turn, for smooth curves. Not sure if I'll leave the entire back or trim to 1". I'm pleased with the result.
Since this is intended to be a festive fall quilt hanging, I had planned for years to use the Grunge with gold coin dots for the center backing.
But on completion of the pineapple body, it just said No. Waiting now for natural linen from Fabric.com. [Oh it just arrived! Nice linen but a wrinkled wadded up mess, Nasty!] Dots may reappear in the corners or I may rethink them as the background, tho I have other choices.
Got that far and stopped.
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Giraffe.
I was looking for I forget what in my collection of redwork quilt blocks, and fell in love again with this giraffe block. He is so cute! And well done. I brought him out to enjoy and maybe he can become part of an antique block challenge, if Lori does one this fall! Or he can become another of my lucky series, again inspired by a little quilt on Lori's blog Post on HQ HERE , or the Rooster quilts on IG. HERE
The pyramid makes me laugh. He is a giraffe, not a camel. I don't think the Pyramids are giraffe habitat. Don't they roam on the savannahs further south?
Next is the pine trees. I dyed wool for the trees with the most amazingly ugly result. I will do needle turn cotton instead. The trees are dark and darker green, really just a backdrop. I was expecting all day today/yesterday to be Elsa storm to prep the trees, but it is beautiful! May wade through the floodwaters to go to the beach instead.
I plan to add at least one snowsuited child to my scene. Here she is, from Snowbound.
The sled children [child] are adorable too.
This small quilt is in Snowbound. Would make such an adorable winter, post-Christmas project. [I don't think Snowbound is still in print, but Jan P reuses motifs so they are findable in other books/ patterns.]
Did mention I might someday make a tiny Stay Home! / pandemic quilt with my homemade cotton masks? Not sure I should rush to cut them up just yet, with all the corona variations around.
Off topic, every day now Mo and I see a pair of cardinals near my cottage, in the quiet area near the ugly locust tree. I am so thrilled!
There are very few songbirds here, just fall migrants, and Mr Mockingbird, so a newly arrived pair of cardinals is such a joy. There used to be a pair that nested in a volunteer old apple tree in the marsh. I'd see them on early school runs. Didn't see them recently, though I hope they're still there. Maybe one of my couple, or both?, are their offspring.
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Food shopping. After I pay my bills mid month I plan to order Freshly meals, to try out. I know they deliver here because I see the boxes on my neighbors' steps. And the Martha Stewart food prep kits look fun too. One result of Covid is that it has really made me expand my thinking about shopping and delivery and how and when to eat. Freshly
Have a great weekend.
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
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