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)