RSC Yellow

Here is what I have gotten done for this month

It's not for a lack of Yellow scraps though

just no time to sew

I did do 4 spools in total I didn't get pictures

but you get the idea, spools are easy and usually done last to use up the inch or less Striping scraps from the ends of things

There will be more but the will probably be finished next month

mostly because i haven't gotten around to cutting anything for the other patches

I could go spelunking in stuff I have already don and store away till I need them but that would be cheatin,g wouldn't it.

I was able to get a bunch of geese off the ground

Have I mentioned how much I like sewing geese?

there are a whole flock of yellow

and then there are the birds

I have more but they too are parts yet to be completed

I still have no Idea what these will become 

but they are fun to make

Candytuft fairy finished

Flower spray with added bling

Remember when I said

"that bit should stay relatively unadorned" ?

 I thought about it 

and I thought it needed some more bling

before

and a bird 

After

I also asked Cathy Kezerian what she thought about it.

Her advice was the web needed to look like it attached to something,          not just hang in the air. 

so I extended the yellow flower spray from the other side of the spider

Added white iridescent sequins to the green trim

Which makes it look less like that nasty fake easter candy people used to use for decorating cake when I was a kid

You know, the spongy stuff that's "edible" but tastes like disappointment

Added clear iridescent sequins and white beads to the white seam treatment

I originally made an embroidered bird for this spot but it ended up being too big,  which made room to gave this little fellow a home

It's made with bullion's and 2 kinds of tubular net ribbon for the wings head and tail

This added just enough to make it more but not too much

It just goes to show when your are unsure, ask 

Feeling Scattered

 The news just keeps getting worse so I have turned it off.

This week has been the kind that makes me feel randomized.

Like I have gotten nothing done

Like I have to start from the beginning

and will get nothing done ever again

Well that's just silly.

We had 2 days of bright sunny weather that were warm enough to go outside and work in the garden

So I got a bunch of needed things done there. I fixed the broken raised bed and made a new one. Turned the compost bin and started to move the old one into the new one and scraped the moss off the concrete around it, Yes that's a thing around here. Started to clean out the garage so we can fix the leak, that has developed in the roof, over the winter.

Taken my MIL to an appointment a day all this week. they got all piled up together because a few needed to be rescheduled when someone in the office got covid. ugh. They couldn't do it all on one day and get it over with? She's 90 this year and slowing down quite a bit but still going, on sheer stubbornness.                                                                                                                                                 I wish she would ask for help before things go pear-shaped but she "Doesn't want to bother us, dear"

The car had to be taken in for oil and filter service and a computer update, so we won't see them again for another 6,000 miles. I love my Hybrid!

So I have been running around getting groceries and other chores done, between picking up and dropping off, since I can't "just sit there". sound exhausting yet? 

Meanwhile, I have gotten a few little things prepared for doing.

Yellow scraps for the RSC, little stuffed velvet birds birds for Mary Jo Heiney's class, finished fa few more orange peel blocks for an applique project. and finishing the last little side of the candytuft fairie CQ block. There are things in flight, as always, that need gathering and prep, before I start on them everything needs to be organized or It all feels out of control. 

Candy Tuft Fairie

Isn't she fun!?!

OK I know a big shiny spider is not what most people call fun

 bUt

Shes so pretty!

I'm still working out this corner of the block

so It's not entirely done, done yet

Though in the whole scheme of the block it may not need more

Like I said I don't know yet

Maybe that bit should stay relatively unadorned

to give the eye somewhere to rest

The more I look at it the more I like that Idea

I just know I need to think about it for a bit

The yellow SRE flower spray came out nice 

And this bush of Orange flower beads

I added a few Bees

and one who went visiting our girl

Small Beaded pin

 It's just a little bitty thing

A pin

A request

Took almost no time but so satisfying