FLOWERING ,et al

 

The brief rain shower we had two days ago

brought my Hydrangea into bloom;)))

Aren't these big blowsy flowerheads just beautiful !!

their whites are SO WHITE--against the

deep green leaves....

It sits by our deck staircase and we

can view it from our living room back window

as we sit there for our daily cocktail hour

and chat...

What a lovely sight 😊

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My African Violet has just finished

a huge spate of blooming

and there are now just a few

little blooms left

I wonder if it will put forth more flowers

or if I will have to wait while it

rests up...?????

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And Kawandi 

aka "Daughter of Dark Days"

is also

in Flower:

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I finished pinning all the patches in 

place--not the usual pin as you go

method, but I don't care for that

piecemeal way of construction...

So....

I added this lovely floral fabric as the central 

motif...and got everything

placed....

As I work around--each

round gets shorter and shorter

and the stitching 

 moves along faster...

You can see the spiraling stitches move

in the rectangular shape...

here is the warm end

And..

Here is the cooler end...

Using varied colored threads makes the lines

appear and disappear depending on the

fabric colors as I move along...

toward the central portion....

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We are still in a heat 

and humidity wave here

in our SE CT shoreline...

But....

They predict showers on Thursday

followed by a cool front moving over us...

I sincerely hope so!!

👺👹👿😩 

Hope those of you suffering in this heat

can stay cool

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(Kawandi-ing-along-euse)

FRIDAY FLOWERS, et al

 

Our Magnolia has flowered out!!

I love the color variations in each bloom...

The deer came last night for dessert 

and ate the lowest blossoms 

scattering the petals

beneath....

And,

My Bleeding Hearts

are about to come into flower

The original two plants were a gift

from a friend and now

have spread all around my

hydrangea...

they are just so delicate and lovely...

and Hydrangea has finally

come into the bud stage...

We had cut it back a lot last Fall

Here are some of the dried flower heads

from last year:

They are on my Grand-mere's antique

pie plate...in front of our fireplace...

Just lovely dusty rose colors...

I am looking forward to culling more 

blooms from this year's crop;)))

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Here is my finished and quilted 

April Dark Days block

I stitched around all the star points and

then did kantha running stitches in 

the darker borders keeping the 

threads on the darker side...

I didn't add anything else on the border sections

[ K3N suggested in her this week's prompt to 

add star constellations...]

as I felt this cloth was busy enough and I also

wanted to keep that  "darker" feel...

This is my Friendship Star (which is our prompt for April) with the 

hourglass center representing long time friends...

As you can see everything is "big stitched"...

And this is where it will be attached to

the first 3 sections...

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

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(quilting-Blues in the Night"-euse)

BUTTERFLY DAYS...

                        It was a bit cooler this morning for a while;
                            so, I made my way out to
                                 my embroidery spot on our deck..

                               Took out my new hoop and Orange
                                             Butterfly....

                   Set up my little Vera Bradley pouch that I just love....

And began to stitch:

                                  I always wax my thread as it really 
                                     helps with any potential
                                           knotting or tangling...

                                            and began stitching...

I do so enjoy the repetitiveness and preciseness of getting the needle
right on the "X' lines...slowly finding the exact spot....

Most of my life I spent practicing my piano for hours a day--
[My degree is in piano pedagogy...]

The repetitive nature of learning a piece 
and the preciseness of the rhythms therein always satisfied me.

Now that I can no longer play because of my 
hand/thumb/arm problems, I found 
that there were many long hours to fill...

And so came quilting, embroidery, diamond painting...all requiring 
the same types of patient skills. 
these have helped to fill that void for me...

                               Making ,,,,,,, Slow,,,,,,,Progress,,,,
                                      I need to still slow down more
                                           as you can see from some
                                              "missed" placements...
                                                   ;)))))
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Last year we slashed our huge, overgrown hydrangea down almost to the
ground...and look what has happened to a bush we thought we would
end up having to dig out↧↧↧↧↧↧

                                      It is going to bloom for us...;)))

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                                                AND.....

                                      We planted this magnolia 
                                       (supposed?) tree 2 years
                                                    ago....
Does anyone know if we should be trimming this somehow and/or
feeding it??? We did have some flowers early in the Spring this
year...but it looks more like a bush than a tree...??????

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Our cul-de-sac is still being torn up during water pipe replacements...
it looks like a patchwork quilt with torn up sections, tarred areas and
trenches filled with gravel--travel is perilous at best...;000

I hope you are all healthy and staying safe...💓💓👵😷😷

Hugs from my presently hot and humid area
Julierose, La Blageuse (Summer-embroidering-euse)