My Bit of Wonder: May 2015

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

What are you up to?

Trying to get sewing done in the summer can be difficult.

There are silly children to play with.

Weeds to pull. My weeds now consist of lettuce, cilantro, dill, borage and forget me nots. Don't get me wrong, I love all of these plants. But I don't really need 7.000 of them.

Got this quilt listed the other day.

More weeds. Oh yeah asparagus is spreading as well. I can't bring myself to call it a weed.

Thank goodness minions are guarding my sewing machine in my down time.

Then back to gardening.

Monday, May 11, 2015

Messes

Messes in the house.

Messes outside the house.

Wild, messy children.

But they're all fun messes. Lots of chain piecing for a quilt I'm making out of Moda fabric I've only been hoarding for ten years? I still love it this Three Sisters fabric. It's a bit more traditional than my taste has been lately. I remember buying it with my mom, not long before she passed. Maybe I like the memories more than anything.

The garden is full of plants. Some intentional and some not so much. My "weeds" nowadays consist of dill, chives, self seeding annual flowers, lettuce, wild asparagus and cilantro. So I'm carefully pulling lots of these out (except asparagus, I'll let that grow anywhere). I feel bad pulling food out of the ground but a person only needs a thousand lettuce plants instead of the six thousand I have growing.