Drippy Day
I knew a drippy day was coming. I put my garden shoes on and went after the sweet yellow blooms that were in my Hosta beds. Of course when Hunny Bunny and Harriet saw me amongst the plants, they needed to check things out as well. When I finished one area, before moving on, I made sure to break off some of the cat nip plants. That was all the invite the kitties needed. They each tied one on. The first trip fantastic of the year.
The photo is of the Star of David flowers that volunteer each spring. When the greenery comes up, it looks like a sea of chives. Each sprout puts out a sweet little white flower. After the blooms are spent, all the greenery dies off. They spread like crazy from the seeds of the blooms. I have worked hard at digging them up where I don’t want them . . . forget it. Ironically when dug, there is what looks like a little onion set, thus they look like chives when they first come up.
Two winters ago, Dennis had gotten a bale of road ditch hay to put under the Maple for the deer to nibble on. Last spring, there were spears of long grasses that had had the seeds carry over. This morning, I took out a huge patch of cocklebur young plants. Dennis was right on, weed seeds can lay dormant for a long time. The heavy rains had sent a lot of clusters of the Maple seeds to the dirt. I raked up some as they can root so fast and easily to show a group of little trees. Each day I will do a bit outside.
This drippy day is the best day to re-introduce myself into the studio. All the lights were turned on and the threads and fuzz were beckoning me. I did finish embroidering the last design times two. It was time to get to the next step. That step would be adding a quarter inch of trim to the 16″ square blocks. I had done this with AJ’s quilt and it really brightened up the t-shirts. It took me a while to remember how wide each strip had to be cut to be feed into the bias tape maker. The next thing was to set the zig zag stitch to sew the four strips onto each of the 32 blocks. All systems were a go for trying my plan out. Yup, I’ve got it. Perfectly cut 1/2 inch orange strips. When they have become bias tape strips they are sewn around each block, two inches from the edge. This photo is one of the blocks I created to fill out what would be needed. I love my Bernina Tool Box software.
It felt good to get back in the groove of the studio.