BLOOMS AND BUTTERFLIES, ET AL

                      My favorite Iris finally bloomed in our light rain last night..
                   Just love all those ruffle-y bits...and that tinge of yellow..

                       My Japanese Iris are also coming out:

                  And they are quite a different shade of purple-y blue
                                             aren't they???
Here they are juxtaposed ;you can see the two distinct
shades here         ↴↴↴↴

                                                     ;)))) 
I love those little yellow, thin bud wrappings--like tissue papers...

                And:      Tah-Dah- my one peony BLOOMED
                                   looking like vanilla ice cream....
                                                     !yum!

And here is one of my embroidered butterflies to accompany
the flowers..:

 I was out on our deck yesterday working on finishing 
                                this one's
                                      black outlines...
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I finished adding the right side sashes to my BAD project ⇊⇊⇊

   I chose a Moda Basics Grunge in a taupe with gold shots...

Below is a close up of one of my favorite blocks↡↡↡

         This fabric seemed to blend with all the blocks pretty well..

So I cut the rest of the sashings and cornerstones...↴↴↴↴

        the cornerstones  is another Moda Grunge-y one in a pink....
                              
I have never done cornerstones before, so this will be a challenge
putting it all together for me....[fingers crossed]

Today I  sewed the blocks in their final layout rows 
to prepare for tomorrow's cornerstone rows: ↡↡↡

                 Can you find the block I made a mistake on????? 

Somehow, I mis-measured and made it too small...probably on a 
day that i was feeling especially low....;0000
                                         [Hint: it was on the May 24th...]
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I will end here with my lovely Rhodie all  in bloom⇟⇟⇟⇟

             That pink-y violet is a lot more intense in real life; 
                           Our gray skies here today
                                  have toned it down a lot....

We had replanted this on the 
front left corner of our house two years ago 
and then wondered if it would
even "take"-- it had gotten pretty big for transplanting...
Last year we had no blooms and it had 
yellowed, wilting
leaves...
                               Quite a comeback!!;)))

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Tonight we will eat my homemade minnestrone soup 
{this time I added some Cannellini beans to the mix} 
and garlic bread...
I hope you are all staying safe 
Difficult times....
Julierose, La Blageuse (staying busy-euse)

IT'S A RAINY AFTERNOON

                                      Working on:  My cross stitch Butterfly

                   I have been doing a lot of hand quilting lately
                            and I feel the need to  change 
                                         it up for a bit....
Here follows---
The Back Story:
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                               I had gotten this kit quite a while ago....
                                        So so pretty, and in the stamped
                                                  cross stitch I prefer doing...
BUT 
every 👹time I took it out I found
it to be SO big and SO unwieldy 
that I would fold it
up and put it away...😢 sadly......

It did not come with any floss, but as I have been embroidering with DMC floss
for a very long time [this was the very first craft that my Grand-mere taught me]
I have many colors tucked away...

When I took it out a few days ago--
I decided to cut the butterfly blocks apart...

WHY NOT???? I didn't want to work on it
as it was anyway--
and--
the blocks were marked with blue dotted outlines--
so this was a simple fix-- and now it is a lot easier to handle...

But wait...where were the instructions and the chart for DMC colors...????
I looked👀 high and I looked 👀 low-- Nowhere to be found
  👹
[And, evidently, they are still hiding in that place where all our "lost" items go...]

BUT, I do have the picture;  and I've decided to do all the
black outlining first. 

[Obviously putting off the color
choices I will have to make on my own. ]

So,  that is where I am starting with this. 

It seems that I will be improving again--
this time, in my embroidery ---
figuring out the colors from only the picture...;0000
WISH ME LUCK....💝

~ ~ ~ Waving in the torrential rains~ ~ ~  
Julierose, La Blageuse (stitching the afternoon away-euse)