RAINY SATURDAY FUN

 On our morning walk this morning, I saw this absolutely gorgeously vibrant orange Azalea bush.  I stole a couple of flowers off it.  

I came home and did some eco prints to see what color I could get from them.  I just used alum and steamed the flowers between watercolor paper. 

It didn't come out like I thought.  That's half the fun sometimes.  You never know what you'll get.  It's an indigo blue and yellow.  It's definitely more blue than it appears in this photo.

I pulled out a batik print that I thought I might use for the end of the Pegasus Bars quilt.  I pinned it up to audition it.  What do you think?

PEGASUS BARS QUILT IS PIECED

 While enjoying the company of Brave Patch Finish it Friday folks, I finished piecing the bars of wool for the Pegasus Bars quilt.  It still needs something to go across one end.

Then I went down a rabbit hole looking for a Pegasus to put on the back thanks to a suggestion by one of the BP Ladies.  I did find a t-shirt on EBay that I think I can use.  It will be here next week.  

And the next Color Box came from Quilted Strait quilt shop.  These are my next installment of all of the Windham Artisan Cottons - shot cottons.

Although I don't understand why anyone would need a white/white shot cotton, it's just a white fabric.  Not really a shot cotton.  It is nice quality though.

PHOTOGRAPHING RHYTHM

 

STARTED ON PRINT

I sewed a few rows on the Bars Quilt.  Still have a few more to go.

I made a backing for the fish tank, sides too.

Then, I took my carving tools: chisels and an exacto knife out to the picnic table and spent a pleasant few hours working on the print for Maria's monumental collaborative puzzle on Kindness.  I didn't quite get done.  But I did better than I thought I would, considering I haven't done anything like this in years.

SEWING ROWS

I got down to the bottom of my design wall.  I can't add any more rows.  So, I'm sewing the rows together.  I want to put several more rows on the bottom still.

MORE ROWS

I added a few more rows to my Bars quilt.  

Then I did a 'value' check:

I ran back to the pet store to get another fish tank - the plan being to get some cleaner water going in that tank and then transfer my poor fish out of the green water tank into the cleaner one.  The water is so green now I can't even see the fish - I haven't seen the Plecostomus - I fear for him.

MOVING THINGS AROUND

First thing this morning I started looking for a new iron, since mine died yesterday.  Can't do much sewing without an iron.  I thought about getting a 'tank' type iron - but they are expensive and I decided against it mainly because of the way my ironing board is set up.  I don't know where I would put the tank and have it be accessible yet out of my way.

So, when I found the professional Rowenta model I settle on I found the best price on Amazon.  I ordered it and was surprised to see that it would be delivered today, before 6pm, still free shipping.  Amazing.  [And it was.]

In the meantime, I cut out pieces and put them on the wall.  At the end of the morning, I wasn't really happy with it and spent some time moving a few groups around.

I was amazed when I downloaded these pictures of the quilt and the flowers - the colors are very similar.  Hmmm.

I took a picture of the Coneflowers so I could paint them into my journal.  It was hard to get the deep red/orange of the flowers right on this paper.  But I like it.