Today, I've spent a little time working on the lavender quilt. The 24 hexagon flowers are assembled and ready to apply to the background fabric. I intended to hand-stitch the flowers to the background with a big blanket stitch using dark violet pearl cotton thread - did three or four that way, then looked over at the ball of thread and realized that there is not enough of it left to do all 24 flowers. I don't have enough embroidery floss in that color, either. Yes, I could do some blocks in lavender, but I want the flowers edged with dark violet, dang-it. So I decided to machine applique the flowers to the background, using the machine's built-in blanket stitch, the biggest one it's got (5mm x 5mm). Turning the corners with a blanket stitch is a bit tricky, but it looks okay. About a third of them are done.
I am not in a great hurry to finish this quilt. It's going on a bed in "the girls' room." It's a canopy bed that I've had since I was about 10. The canopy currently has no cover; I'll get around to finding or making one when the quilt is finished.
It won't be violet.
The room is yellow, with white lace curtains. No way I'm re-painting that room. It'll be fine. The hexagon flower centers are yellow.
Anyway . . . .
I'm itching for something else to do. Wednesday, I worked on the bead-wrapping craft kit that my friend sent - the one where they shorted the wire. The kit contained two beads - one flat, rectangular bead, and one round-ish bead the size of a big grape. The instructions for wrapping the flat bead confused me, but after a bit of trial and error, the stone managed to stay within the wire setting. After wrapping the square bead, I decided that there is no f*ing way I'm going to try the round bead. I am not up to unnecessary stress right now!
I've been watching random videos in hopes of finding something interesting. I've watched a lot of this lady's quilting videos:
Some BEADS and a necklace for all this not-going-out I’m doing!
Her videos are calming. Who couldn't use a little calming right now? The one above was filmed during the early days of covid, during a lockdown. Back then, while she was stringing beads, I was doing grown-up paint-by-number pictures.
I have no idea where those paintings are now.
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