The rush of summer vacation, visiting relatives, or just relaxing in the sun is over really before it even began. It has been a strange summer I am sure for everyone. In our area we are trying to be as normal as we can with a few exceptions because of Covid. This past weekend we got together with DH's family for a corn roast and we took our trailer to have a weekend camping trip. The rains came and went all weekend but yesterday was a beautiful sunny day(just in time for us to leave)
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| tried to find a pretty photo spot |
In the sewing room...there has been slow to no progress. I am finding it hard to stay motivated to sew. I can do lots of hand stitching or knitting but sitting at the machine..not so much. Now I have spoken of this before and had many others agree with me. So I am hoping that with the Fall weather approaching that will change. I did persevere and finished this top this past week. I going to blame Kathy on this one. When she was here visiting last year at this time, she was making these free form stars from scraps. I fell in love with them. She was using scraps but I decided I could do them with 2 1/2" squares. I had hoped that that would clean out a box of squares that I had been cutting, saving and wanting to use. NEVER MADE A DENT!!
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Deciding on sashing and borders was a bit difficult as I don't have large pieces of yardage. So I improvised and used two different fabrics.I plan to bind it in black or black with small white print to keep in the gray/black theme and offset the bright colours of the stars.
Although I am a day late, I am still joining in on Kathy's slow stitching and sharing my finished top(it still needs quilting). I am spending today stitching hexies into the main body of a quilt. Terrible headache due to shifting weather patterns has me not wanting to do much but sit and rest and stitch! That is never a bad thing!!
