Let's squeeze in some more likes this month to share with LeeAnna and friends at I Like Thursday.
I spotted this in the way home from an evening kayak. I'm not sure what
caught my eye first, the antique truck or the mini-church. I stopped to
get a closer look.
I'm finally posting my quilted jacket. I finished up the stitching in
May except for a set of buttons. Turns out adding said buttons was
harder than I anticipated. Third time is a charm! I found a set I
like last weekend and wrapped it up. Just in time, since I plan to
submit it to the local fair.
Hmm... I guess I didn't post much on the process. This was one of those sweatshirt jackets in which you pull apart a sweatshirt, quilt fabric onto it, then reassemble it. I found a couple of tutorials, had a rough idea of of fabrics and a design and I took the plunge.
Ooh - a mid-month I Like post! I finally got around to hitting the highlights of my trip to Cape Cod the last week in July.
It was a great time and the weather mostly behaved. I brought my kayak and got out a couple of mornings. Sunday morning was so calm and still - would you believe this photo was taken out in Cape Cod Bay? It was quiet, too: I could hear the water lapping on the shore. The water was clear enough, too, to see my shadow on the sand below.
Birds of a Feather is finished and was gifted this weekend. I put the last stitch in on Saturday morning then I handed it my cousin and his new wife on Sunday morning. I'm bummed I didn't get more time to admire it on my wall, but it was nice to be able to give it to them in person.
What a sprint to the finish! I spent every free moment I had last week to complete it. I got up early to work on the quilting before going to work and then sat right down again after dinner. It all went smoothly until Monday night, when suddenly my bobbin nested and the top thread snapped three times after only stitching a few inches. I panicked. I had quilted not quite half the quilt and it had gone so well! No skipped stitches; no broken thread. How could this happen? I swapped out the needle and the bobbin and cleaned all around the plate and mechanism. Don't know what fixed it, but I was able to continue along. Whew!
It's Thursday - time for some the things I liked this month! Not so fond of the of hot, steamy, wet days so far. I'm hoping for a little less humidity for the next weekend. We'll see. But lots of things that perked me up this month!
Ghost (the deer) stopped by a few times. One evening a fawn trotted up
to Ghost and tried nursing, much to Ghost's surprise (and annoyance).
What is this little pipsqueak trying to do?!? I hope the fawn found his
mom. I've seen him a few times since.
I shuffled around a few feathers but
mostly kept with my original layout. Nearly all the feathers were cut from strip blocks, which resulted in six
feather pieces that had the same color layout: three from top-to-bottom
and three bottom-to-top. When I pieced left and right together, I got a
set of unique feathers. I was amused, though, that after I stitched them
all together, I can see two sets of rights and two sets of left next to each
other. I guess that means this is truly random.
Ooh - feathers all over my floor!
I spent a few hours over the weekend digging in the garden. Then it got too hot, humid and rainy so I switched over to sewing. I have 25 completed feathers! That's one more than I need. I'm in the layout stage. What fun!
The feathers went together so smoothly and consistently. In my last post
I had questioned if I printed the pattern correctly; given how nicely
everything lined up, these have to be the correct size. Pretty, aren't
they?
