Usually you talk about seeing spots before your eyes, but after a serious amount of sewing today, I'm seeing squares! This morning I laid out all the squares that I had cut on Sunday, arranging the piles in pairs
As always when I have repetitive machining to do, I chain pieced the squares, feeding in the next pair without cutting the thread
Once I had stitched one of each pair together, I moved the top right hand pile to the bottom and moved the others up, to change the pairings. I kept doing this until I was about halfway through the pile ........
Then I rearranged the piles, pairing the left hand piles together followed by the right hand piles. This ensured that I had a good mix of pairs. The next step was to press all the pairs, and then sew them together in twos, ending with a large pile of blocks
By the time I had finished sewing, it was just about time to head into the house to make the dinner, so I pressed a few of the blocks and popped them on the design wall to let you see how they look (one of these days I must invest in a 'daylight' fluorescent striplight, so the colours are true!!)
Having taken time to make sure that my seams were neatly lined up ...... I remembered that all the centres will be covered with applique circles!!
I was distracted this morning by a blackbird who stood for some time with his back to me - but eventually he turned round enough for me to take a photo of him - you can see where the end of his beak is dirty, from where he had been poking in the mud
As I was crossing the garden at the end of the afternoon, a little gleam of colour caught my eye ...... a bright green shoot amongst the dead foliage on the clematis
Recently, Pat asked me where my studio is, as I sometimes mention going out to/being out in the studio. It isn't that far away, it's at the end of the back garden. This is the back of the house, with the back door on the left .....
...... if you go past the summerhouse, you'll find the wooden storm doors to the studio (inside the wooden doors are glass French doors) ......
I still can't leave comments on Blogger blogs which have word verification - no matter how many times I correctly type in the word, I am told I have typed it wrongly and am given another one. It is so frustrating! However, I am still reading all my favourites, and if I could leave a comment, I would of course say that the posts were fascinating/interesting/moving/amusing (delete as applicable!!)
ps - Malcolm has pneumonia pleurisy flu a bad cold and has spent the day with his feet up, reading the paper, doing the crossword, watching tv. He has now given it to me - do you think I'll get to spend tomorrow in a similar fashion??!!