Backyard Wonders

 Butterfly's fluttering,bees buzzing  having a feast of nectar & pollen off the flowers & squash plants

Pillow Projects

https://www.onsuttonplace.com/repurposed-shirt-pillow-cover/

Somewhere between now & Christmas I have a niece-n-law  that wants me to make pillows from her dad's shirts,looks easy enough but I think I'll practice on some of mine 👀once you cut a shirt ,it's cut lol

I have fallen in luv with making my own pillow covers for the different seasons but don't get me wrong I've a few retail beauties as well lol! Last year I made Fall pillows & with pillow forms being expensive as they are I made my own

There are Christmas ones in the works  as part of my Christmas in July projects 

Final Scrappy Layout

 I spent way too much time fussing with this one lol ,it took a lot more blocks than I anticipated,my brain was locked in on 10" blocks I guess because that was my last one but these are 6" but anyway, it's over😄

the trick to it was to just leave it where it was & add to it as I went ,if I needed to move it I could just roll it up,I pinned two large rectangle flannel backed tablecloths together ,make sure you get the ones with flannel backing so your blocks will stay in place

Christmas In July Week 3

 

I'm not too happy with these primitive snowmen,I'm not sure if I should tweak or toss them,they were some  left over from last years UFOs which they were done in the whites & silvers,I should had left well enough alone🤣

Sunday Inspiration

 

Another Beautiful Rainy Morning

 The rain has set in more this morning leaving us with a dark rainy morning with a gentle cool breeze making it bearable to have coffee & watch the birds for a little while but first did you see that beautiful moon last night?

the clouds seemed to look like angle wings 

The  male hummingbird  to the one that came yesterday visited the feeder this morning 

She was close by ,I'm not sure if make& females feed together 🤔I'll have to consult the bird books lol

On a garden note one of the squash plants has put out it's first blooms & I spotted tiny ones peeking out on the cherry tomatoe plant

On a sewing note ,I added a few more blocks to the scrappy quilt layout,I want to add a few more purples to round out the bottom left corner,come down with a few more yellows on the upper right corner & adding  a row of reds ,rounding it off with browns blacks & greys

I think this one is taking me longer because I usually make my scrappy blocks 10" & these are 6" so it's taking more blocks than I thought,I've heard to take a photo in black & white to see if the lights & darks are evenly distributed throughout the quilt,well I'm no expert on that but it's looking kind of balanced to me ,if you have an eye for these things  let me know😁

Backyard Beauties

 It was surprisingly a little cooler than usual today brought on by the rain,starting off with blueberry waffles on the laneigh 

I changed almond flour brands & like the overall results a lot better for making my low carb waffles

When there are flowers there will be butterflies!

I luv the cooing sounds that the doves make when it rains ,I think this is where they get their nickname ,rain doves 

And as always it's good to see Woody back 

What's the weather been like for you these days?