A Little Taste Of Morning Adventures

 

Then home to make lemon chicken & broccoli for lunch

there were plans for sewing for the rest of the day but they got interrupted when a friend called wanting me to help with going & picking up a beautiful antique sewing machine in a cabinet, that thing was too heavy for us oldies to handle but we did it & will probably pay for it tomorrow 🤣 then one thing led to another , dinner,a trip to Joann's & the rest was history lol

Soooo

Sewing bright & early in the morning for sure ,that's the plan as it stands for now😂 

 

How Many Inches? Blocks?How short?HowLong?...

 When it comes to quilting or sewing these are some of the questions we ponder over & over,I keep a sewing journal to cut down on Googleing so much 😂 these charts would be nice to print out for a reference 

I've been doing a lot of cutting & prepping ,I only had 2 yds of the lemon fabric but I'm short so I made it work for what I wanted 😂 if all goes well today it will make its Day view tomorrow 

Grace & me are off to pick up Sadie for the weekend then straight to the park 

Early Morning Visitors & More Sewing Plans

 I almost missed my early morning visitors, lol ,coming into the kitchen for my coffee I noticed the bluest bird in the backyard,I had to run back to the living room to grab the phone off the charger🤣

This is the first I've seen this year of the Indigo Blue Buntings

I picked up a few odds & ends for working on projects over the weekend ,Joanns had a $3.99 sale of quilting cotton ,this one is called dusty paint drippings, it will be the backing for the RSC 2023 color wash quilt,cotton belting & batting for a bag I feel compelled to make😄& more pearl cotton to add to the collection for my slow stitching journal 

Speaking of quilts ,I'm not sure where my brains been concerning the Bramble Blooms quilt 😄 the Bramble Blooms QAL is hosted by Audrey of Quilty Folks ,there are 3 quilts in this QAL 🤔my brain had clicked over to thinking we post all 3 at the end ,well I've discovered that's a no 🤣the 1st one is to be posted the end of this month like in 6 days finished🤣

I'm feeling a little lemony 🍋today ,I've have this fabric in my stash for quite some time,I had to open the front door to get a good pic of the true yellow,the look on Graces face!👀 like you gonna make what? with this?🤣🤣

A Cooking & Pattern Cutting Kind Of Day

 The morning started out with homemade waffles 

cutting out patterns to save time, especially the ones I have to hack because they're wayyyyy too long😄& getting some things cut out for a productive day tomorrow

I recently went to Tractor Supply with my niece & it was baby chick cuteness overload 

There was a new Dollar Tree store to check out ,these magazines are packed with recipes will full page pictures along with good reading articles for just $1.25 each

And if there's cute paper plates then I'm in! 😄

The day ended with shrimp scampi with simple ingredients of broth,butter, garlic,lemon juice , salt,pepper , parsley,frozen precooked shrimp

A Few More Blocks

 I'm not sure if today was a productive day but I did manage to get a few more blocks sewn together,6 little 9 patches that I  will trim down later

so far I have 59 ,still behind if you go by what week we're on😄 2 more of the 16 patch blocks

I'm up to 7,these aren't for any ryme or reason other than I want a patchwork quilt🤣

The 16 patch once cut out goes together pretty quick so why can't I come up with a flimsy by the end of the day? 🤣I think that I overthink the overall block trying to match fabrics & cutting out as I go

Sooooo

Since the overthinking is taking up the time for other projects 🤣 I think the focus will be on them & catch up on cutting out quilt squares in-between & if plan B fails there's always plan C 🤣

Sunday Inspiration

 

Just Buzzing Around

 First let's buzz around the kitchen with some good ole pancakes

Come sit on the layneigh with me & watch the bees buzz around,this little guy didn't mind me keeping him company😄

Let's buzz around the flower bed & give it a good weed cleaning out

Of course we're buzzing around the sewing room cutting out squares for the tiny 9 patch blocks & 5" squares for the 16 patch blocks

I'm having to hit things with a lick & a promise today🤣it's about to pour down rain so I must run to the store before it hits, my nephews coming not sure today or tomorrow to check my kitchen outlets,someone's coming to trim trees tomorrow plus there's a youth choir that I wantta hear later that evening, only one sleeve left to put in my purple dress so  inbetween all the buzzing around this weekend I plan to gets lots & lots of things cut out & ready to hit my sewing full speed ahead in the next few days!

Out of the 16 patch blocks ,I believe this one is my favorite so far but with about 15-20 more to go that could change but for now it's the favorite!

The birds are buzzing around getting along in the feeder, they luv the old bird bath that now serves as a feeder along with the handing ones,the doves really enjoy it as they have a hard time handing on to the feeders,so if you have an old birdbath don't toss it use it for a feeder for the bigger birds