No picking or juicing happened today because last night we had a thunderstorm that stayed around for a long time and dumped about 1" of badly needed water on our area. While we were thankful for that moisture it made everything too wet to be out in the bushes picking cherries, etc. Plus, it was a dark, gloomy day and one that stayed cold (not enough sunshine!). The high temperature for the day at our place was a steady +15ºC, or 59ºF. Not too inspiring for working in a garden!
It did seem like a good day to work on quilts! The Raggy Quilt is finished! Here are a few photos:
Snipping of seams finished, before washing and drying:
It did seem like a good day to work on quilts! The Raggy Quilt is finished! Here are a few photos:
Snipping of seams finished, before washing and drying:
That's the special scissors there on the quilt. It springs open after each cut, and that saves a tremendous amount of wear of your hand! Here's a close up of the snipped but not washed and dried seams.
Here's what the quilt looks like after two trips through the washer and dryer:
And here's a closeup of the seams after the washer/dryer treatment:
I'm pretty happy with this bright, fuzzy quilt, and also happy that it's finished (except it needs a label on the back) so early. It's for a baby due in November!
Later today I sewed the label on the Entwined quilt and am working on finishing the hand stitching of the binding to the back of the quilt. This one needs to be finished before Saturday.
With that and the cleaning that needs to be complete before the weekend, I'm giving up the idea of finishing the scraping and painting of the downstairs door and window frame. It can wait a while.
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