Well, a cold kinda caught me, enough to make my ears/teeth/throat ache, my eyes itch, and saddle me with tiredness and ennui, but without (yet) the coughing and blowing. Despite the fact that it didn't feel COVIDish (symptoms being mainly, except for the tiredness, above the lungs), I just took a test. It confirmed what I thought--just a nuisance Summer Cold. I hates 'em (and now my nose is irritated too).
I've been trying to decide what to make for my mother's August banner. A week or three ago this might have been in the running (with the heading "Summer's bounty").
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| The black rectangle would've been filled with a fabric that looks like a woven basket. |
Yesterday as I quietly worked on Celia's hexagon project I decided to go simple--a couple of FPP sunflowers bookending 4- or 9-patches made with fabrics from the Kitchen Sink project. I'll still use the heading, though. I find there's a very real "danger" of trying to make subsequent banners more eye-catching than the last. Crazy-making, to be sure.
While working on Celia's project yesterday I decided its name: "Joie de Vivre". I finished the last full block and started sewing together a corner block, plus basted numerous black hexies (my mom felt like staying in bed most of the afternoon). Very soon I'll be joining blocks together. There are several residents and their daughters who've been closely tracking this project. Celia's joy spreads ever on!
My first thought was "there's a lot of work in that". September is more harvest time here, a canning jar quilt with fruit and veg designs would work well and be quicker than FPP.
ReplyDeleteAs it happens, I have some canning jar fabric (shown: http://cbottsprojects.blogspot.com/2022/04/past-project.html), but I'm going to use some fruit & veg fabrics in 4-patches instead. I just have to get up the gumption to do it.
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Covid tests the ones we hope to fail! I'd keep it simple and let the fabric do the work of portraying a theme (e.g. fruit/veg prints) rather than going to all the work of paper piecing. Hope you're feeling better.
ReplyDeleteI finally am. The aches have gone except for the ones in my hips, but those are from the marathon paper-piecing I've been doing today (4 sunflower blocks to bookend the 4-patches I'll be making using my fruit & veg fabrics). Every month I tell myself to start earlier; every month I find myself hustling to get a banner done by the first day.
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How soon until you have a year's worth? (You can tell I haven't been paying attention.)
DeleteJanuary's banner (when I finally use the firework blocks I made this January) will round out the year.Then it'll be a matter of recycling and the odds that I'll get each month updated in a timely manner will improve significantly!
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