What is blooming now? Daylilies are starting to shine locally. There is an astonishing amount of genetic variation in Hemerocallis or daylily flowering plants - in color, flower shape and size, height, blooming time, etc. You can tell from all the photos above something about how many different flower types there are. ;) Do an image search for 'daylily flowers' and find out for yourself. :) I love seeing them - happy trumpet faces singing to the sky!
Today was hot, humid and muggy here in Columbia. I thought about going out to sit on the back deck and do some hand sewing until I opened the sliding door, breathed a bit of the outside air through the screen and said "Nope!" Closed that door right back and went back to my comfy chair and a/c. :P
I did get to work in my upstairs (very warm, even with two fans) sewing room later in the afternoon. We had a thunderstorm with rain blow through around 4 p.m. or so which cooled things off a bit - at least enough for my room to be bearable. Whew! I dug out more scraps, sorted them by color group and made more wonky roses:
My pile is getting eclectic, eh? :) I am approaching critical mass with these so I will start trying to puzzle piece them together tomorrow and see how that goes. :)
Yesterday (Sunday the 17th) was the monthly meeting of Sew&Tell at my friend Barbara's house. There were only five of us this month (various 'life' issues, nothing drastic) but we had fun eating, chatting, sewing together.
Deborah brought two 'quilt in a box' round robin pieces she is working on this month, one of which I found really inspiring. I've seen this pattern many times before and I'd bet that you have, too:
I've seen a number of fun iterations of this design but the ones in the box Deborah is working on really struck me as being happy - and those kitten blocks are so CUTE:I have an entire 'big' bin of brightly colored plaids, checks and yarn-dyes that just might have to become cats. :) Yet another squirrel project!
Supposed to be better weather tomorrow - here's hoping!
:) Linda
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