Summer

As elsewhere it has been hot here.  I have been out in the gardens at 0700.  Have accomplished a bit of summer clean up.  A lot left to do.

Here we have Gibbs with the right idea.  Belly up to the window screen to get the breeze.  Kitty heaven.

Slow stitching is what I have worked on.  Stitching Quaker by Primrose Cottage has been completed.  This was stitched on a 28-count linen.  Not sure why I chose such a large stitch space.  After working on 40-count this looks enormous.  

I have begun Stitching Quilt by Primrose Garden.  The same colors and size linen are used in both.  

I see them finishing as a table runner or topper.  Need to find the proper material colors and will make a log cabin block around them.  Right now, it will be three blocks.  The center block will have a solid center to its log cabin. 

The MorningStar hot pad by Plum Easy was made.  I am wanting to make her Point of View table topper.  The prairie points were making me nervous, so I started with this, a Hexi point.  This was made without a problem, and I now have the confidence to work the prairie points.  

May you all be able to stay cool this weekend.  We are in the 80s but the humidity has finally dropped.  For a few days.

Linking to Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's Quilts. 
 

July?

I am not paying attention to the passing of time at all.

Youngest was here at the end of June with her family.  She asked me to make the farm quilt that we had bought the kit for last year.  I had no idea what she was talking about.  She said she would look in my cave to see if she could find it.  I wished her luck.  Two minutes later she had it.  Said, "Mom, this was easy to find."  I was shocked and surprised.  She told me that she could see that I had been organizing and that it worked.

MAW are her initials, and her future projects are in that box.  Need to keep this up.

While I was piecing "On the Farm" by Sweet Jane's I was closely supervised.

Later, Gibbs was telling me the importance of pressing.  He was not very pleased when he was told to move.

Ziva later helped me sort scraps and did great work as the compactor.

Here is "On the Farm" as a flimsy.  Need to get cotton batting, turn it into a sandwich and then will begin to machine quilt it.  Hope to have it at least a sandwich by the end of the week.

I did begin a Primrose Cottage cross stitch, Stitching Quilt.  This is being done on a 28-count linen.

My Season and Time by Moira Blackburn is getting closer to the end.

May you all be able to stay cool and enjoy your threads.

Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.