A TURTLE PROJECT?

 On an impulse I purchased this Landscape Turtle Pincushion Kit from Fish Museum and Circus.

It arrived today.

Looks like fun...?

CUTTING A HOLE

 I drew out a circle on freezer paper to use as a template.  Then, using a heat erasable pen, I traced the circle onto the quilt top.

Then I cut the circle out.

After finding the perfect solid green fabric and cutting a half inch from the previous circle template, I traced it onto fabric.

Next step was to pin and glue it onto the cutout circle.

Sew and press it flat.

Using a ruler as a guide, I cut the border at 3/4" all the way around.

Sewing the rest of the top onto the cut-out circle was a little more difficult.

But, it was all worth it.  Here it is - the finished top.

ITS A TOP - SORT OF

 I got all of the rows sewn together today.

It's not officially a top yet, because I'm going to cut a circle out of it and re-insert it.

Stand by!  This could be fun.

SEWING ROWS

Yesterday was the first Sunday of the month and I attended the Sew Modern Connection zoom meeting.  I was only able to sew a few rows together because I couldn't find a comfortable position for my inflammed left leg.  I left the meeting early.

Today, Monday, was a Brave Patch Monday Sewcial zoom meetup.  I continued to sew the rows together on the pink and green HST blocks.  I figured out it was better to sew the whole row together and then get up and press the seams open.  Yesterday I was trying to press each seam as I went, which meant turning back and forth to the ironing board.  That was what made my knee unhappy.

They are now in six sets of two.

BLOCKS ON THE WALL

 I went upstairs to the studio this morning - the first time since my left knee replacement surgery on May 16th.  

I got those green and pink HST blocks up on the wall.

MORE FABRIC DYED

 I remembered the process I used for the hand-dyed fabric I used up around the first two leaves.  So I went ahead and started making more.  This time I'll make more then I'll need, of course.  And the next leaves will match the first two.

First I added fuschia and yellow drops and let it dry.

Then I put drops of wax strategically around.

Then I placed in a bag of green dye overnight and...

it turned out great!

DYEING GREENS

 Since it's snowing and the roads are impassable, I stayed home and dyed different greens for my Amity Baroque project.  These will hopefully be used in the background.

I have an image in my head that I want it to look like which includes some small dottings of a bright pink/red spinning out from the flower.  I'm trying to achieve that with my dyeings.  

I sprinkled some fuschia dye powder onto a few of the fat quarters before I put them into the green dye bath.  It didn't turn out like I wanted.  I'll have to try something else tomorrow.

19/100

And I worked on the green quilt.  I finished the dark blocks and got them up on the wall.

Then I started on the light blocks.

18/100

I just barely squeaked these out.  I was busy doing other things, but I made myself work on the scrap bucket for a while anyway.

I was making the dark blocks for the green Churndash quilt.

Jax was busy sleeping until I disturbed him.

CUTTING AND SEWING

Darrell come up to my studio at lunch time to ask if I wanted to go out to lunch.  I had my basket of batiks out and was pulling out greens and cutting them into randomly shaped long triangles.  He watched me for a few minutes, then asked me why I was just hacking up this fabric.

I said, "I don't know...I was bored I guess."

So, we went out to lunch.

When we got back, I started sewing them back together.

Not randomly.