"BLUES IN THE NIGHT", et al

 

I've hand quilted 3 blocks so far and

I am working on the 4th (top L).

I am mostly working on these when

I find myself inexplicably awake

at 3 in the morning!! 

(hence the title).

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Here is a picture of how we put

our garden to bed 

last Fall for 

the winter 

months...

and now that our garden guy has

come and dug it all out and seeded this

spot with grass and covered it with 

straw...

Here is its state now--

We will be watering 2x/day until the grass appears...

He is due to return to finish off replanting the

strip along our garage that abuts the front

walkway...soon...

Meantime, one lone daffodil is

holding court there...

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Last Monday.....

I opened this old jelly roll of 

20 fabrics

and 

😀😊

Here's what's happening!! 

👀😉👀

These box-ey blocks are 

really fun to sew

together...

I found 4 more jelly rolls that each have

42 strips and i will see if I can find 

easy, fun patterns with minimal

cutting to use them up....

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For those of you who asked 

what's going on

With my "Dark Days"

K3N project..

????

Well it is up on my wall 

as is...

And after

I watched this Wednesday's

K3N YouTube video I 

gave one little star block

a try by hand...

and...

N  O  P  E  

it was a total mess...

SOooo, I decided to make my own

stars using Helga--and why not?

My poor hands just could not manage

doing all that...

The little star on the left is the

disaster result--super wonky !!!

the other two are machined...

I am planning on making a few more

and will be watching next Wednesday

to see how K3N attaches them...

(if I end up doing that!!).

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Very warm here this afternoon--66

and sunny--Tom filled our Garden planter

with stones and soil this afternoon 

after he got his ok from the MD 

this morning...

Now I am waiting for plants to

appear in our nursery--still a bit early

here on the southeastern

coastal area of CT...

I want to try tomatoes, lettuces

and a few herbs:

basil, tarragon and parsley...

We've placed it at the sunniest corner of

our back deck...One more layer of soil

will be added to give the plants 

plenty of depth...

[Tomatoes:  Brandywine,  Sungold

Lettuce: Buttercrunch, Green Romaine]

I hope your weekend will be a good one...

hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(quilting-&-star-making-&boxes-euse)

MEH????--DNF???, et al

Well, I've taken a long, hard look at 

how this is coming together...

👀👀👀

👺💣👿

And I've decided that I am not

really crazy about how...

Dark Days is looking...

An awful lot of hand stitching

went into this piece 

and

sadly

it is not yielding the 

results I had

hoped for...

S  I  G  H

😒😔😞

I don't think I am

suited to SAL's.

I had continued thinking 

that perhaps it would take a 

turn to make me 

actually  "like" it...

that I would get that

interior feeling of 

"Yes, this is going to be  

just great"!

But--

nope.

❤❤❤

I will say that I have learned a lot:

Various methods of working

by hand and 

certainly what I like

and don't like about 

working in this fashion.; 

But

most of all

what I don't like is

this resulting piece

[and after all that work,

I know, I know]!!

But I do not regret giving this

a try....

So, mes amies, 

💙💙💙

I have decided to take a break 

from it for now.

At this stage of my life, I only

want to make just what I 

REALLY WANT

to make...

But.... 

 I will continue watching the videos 

and move on with my regularly

scheduled quilting agenda...

Somehow, though

on the bright side;)))

💓💖💗

 this whole process has

 brought me back to my love of

hand quilting...

and,

strangely enough,

machine piecing, too.

I have been really wanting to

get back to machine work..

I've thoroughly cleaned Helga's

bobbin area, put in a new needle

and am ready to do some more

"just for the joy of it"

piecing.:))))

😂😍

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Tomorrow I will be doing my weekly

 food shopping and our garden guy

will begin work dismantling

our little front, overgrown 

garden which we can no longer

care for; and 

he will be putting in

grass seed up to the edge 

of our patio seating area..

Last Fall, we did pull what we could out

and then covered it to let most things

just die down...

We were not able to pull the

deep-seated roots out 

and decided to call for help...

So, 

that is where 

I stand for now..

If you've made it through to the end of this

long posting I commend you

👌😉😍😎

Hugs, 

Julierose, La Blageuse

(re-thinking-what-to work-on-next-euse)