solids sewing

 finished the first of two planned projects for the solids.....it's a flimsy....

it's 46.5" square and used up a LOT of scraps...NOT!  so vexing!!  anyway i think it's colorful....

what else?  we all know somebody else's scraps are much more fun and so it was with the baggie i recently received...in it were some nice halloween-theme scraps, mostly 2.5" wide of varying lengths...so darn cute soooooo....now that i have a table, a placemat was just the ticket....

pulled an autumn print for the back so it's reversible too....

the backing is a Hoffman print bought long ago...it was $3 per yard and i bought 3 whole yards, something rarely done, and glad i did....lining is flannel picked up at senior center...

would have posted earlier today but had extreme thunderstorms plus tornado quite close, like 3 miles away...many trees down and some hit by lightning....weatherman says more substantial storms tomorrow...then the high 90s and even 100...so glad i have my bike and larder is stocked...summer has landed with a vengeance...no farmer's market this week for sure....

tomorrow will start on solids project #2....doubt will have time for another, but the drawer stash has decreased just not emptied quite yet

rainy days and mondays

get you down?  not me, especially when it means no ultra hot and humid...just turn on a couple of lights and do whatever....still hacking away at solids drawer....tackling this pile next...

these were part of the farmer's wife book blocks....the blocks are long gone but kept the triangles...waiting for an idea and finally one "materialized"   ooh sorry, bad pun!  i've just under 2 weeks to use these up....

the solids drawer won't be completely obliterated but will wait for another rainy day....that seems to be the norm for this year's chookshed challenge...

yes i AM spending a lot of time cruising instagram...sent this to my bookworm brother, the most voracious reader in our family of readers....

now the bike and then sewing without guilt....my kind of day!