Doesn't look like a lake, does it? That's Lake Ontario, looking southwest down the length of the lake from Bluffer's Park in Toronto. We've had some wonderful high summer weather this week, and I took my camera out for a drive.
Here are the Scarborough Bluffs, with lovely puffy white clouds (aka source material):
And the marina, with puffy clouds and shiny boats:
A good day! Some memories to re-visit when it's below freezing this winter.
Inside, I finally finished edge stitching the fusible applique blocks that I last shared in June,
here and
here. They are for my quilt "El Camino SoCal," based on the cover quilt from Nancy Rink's book
El Camino Real. And even though summer is still in full swing, you can see that my sunny patch on the wall is getting narrower:
After considerable thought, I decided to top stitch the flowers as if they had individual petals. It was a lot easier to run straight and pivot, rather than inching around all the inside curves.
I want this quilt to have a bright, casual feel, so I just stitched the petals by eye.
I did the same thing on the smaller "forget-me-nots."
The yellow (and citron) centres are reverse applique, which is why the top stitching is only on the purple.
Here's the whole block stitched:
And the last block of the five I've done so far:
They remind me of poppies.
I think this block benefited quite a lot from the top stitching. It really helped to separate and define all the light coloured leaves.
And I'm still happy with my choice of dark red thread for all the edge stitching. It shows up well on every colour.
These blocks have been lying flat on my sewing table for two months, because I didn't want to fold them until they were stitched. I've had to move them every time I sew. Now I can finally put them away!
I feel like I'm at a bit of a crossroads now, and I'm not sure which project I'll pick up next. It's been nothing but this project and
Technicolor Turkey for two months, so maybe it's time to give some love to some of my other projects!
And the next Ad Hoc Improv Quilters challenge is to use words in a quilt, which is right up my alley. You can read about it
here. I have at least three wordy ideas that I've been sitting on, and I thought it would be easy to just pick one. But...I'm feeling the need to be more spontaneous. So we'll see what happens!
