Hi there! Here we are for the end of July (gasp) installment of the Flower of the Month SAL as hosted by
Alyssa at Brownie's Chair! I think my mojo has taken a break. It has been very hot here (heat index of 115-120F, 46-49C) and I just wilt with that sort of heat. Summer has always been my least favorite season because of this; I lose all motivation to do anything at all. It is even warm in the basement where the computers currently are and so, I'm behind on blog reading. I'm sorry. :(
Before it got hotter than hot I did manage to finish April's Sweet Peas.
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| Yay! |
Despite the abundance of pink, this one was a very enjoyable stitch! It went quickly and the only hiccup I had was at the end -- I washed it and one of my subbed pinks bled. Luckily I caught it while washing so I just kept washing until it was gone. I made sure to mark the offending floss so I know to be careful with it on future projects.
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| ~it's show time~ |
Technical Details
- "April: Sweet Pea" freebie pattern by Ellen Maurer-Stroh, found here
- 2 over 1 on 14-count ecru huck towel (called for 3 over but I thought 2 looked okay)
- Finished size: 4.50 x 4.50" (11,50 x 11,50 cm)
- Started: June 22, Finished: July 4. 11 hours.
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| floss toss! |
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| somewhat started |
I also got started on May's Lily of the Valley. I had hoped to have it done as well but I have not been enjoying this particular flower. I suppose it's the colors; they seem so much more drab than the previous ones have been. Or it could be the heat. Or both. One amazing thing though -- I wound up having almost all of the colors for this piece. That almost felt a bit weird.
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| snow ice cream, delicious noms |
Good thing about all this hot hot hot is fishing out the snow ice cream that I made back in
February. It sure tasted good and made me think of much happier (read: colder) times. I do hope my mojo comes back soon though. It will be time to throw myself fully into canning garden veggies in a few weeks and I won't have time to sit down! I have started with bread and butter pickles (to give away, I don't like them myself). Also I made some salsa verde from green tomatoes harvested from plants that volunteered where they weren't supposed to. I think next will be pickled honey jalapenos. I'm about to drown in them lol.
Lastly! My
Dolphin Trio winners! :D I got to use the random number generator gadget again and the winners arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreee~
and
Yay! :D Please send me an email with your address and I'll get it out to you guys ASAP! It will just be the kit and no fancy extras so hopefully the parcels will teleport themselves to you. :)))
Thank you for reading! I'll be back to ramble again for
Gifted Gorgeousness.
The flowers look lovely and I'm glad you caught it before they ran all over.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of green in the lily of the valley but they do look nice when they are all done.
Oh those little sweet peas are so cute!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, they are quite pretty (in spite of all the pinks hah :D)~
DeleteDear Rosey, gorgeous flowers!
ReplyDeleteI like the photo with the procedure work!
Yummy ice cream :-)))
Nice weekend and less heat!
The sweet peas are gorgeous of course. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect time for snow ice cream!
Mabel and I are enjoying green beans daily.
Congrats on the pretty finish and new start Rosey.
ReplyDeleteLinda
Congrats Mini and Preeti and great finish and start. I must research this snow ice cream.
ReplyDeleteThank ya kindly~ I hope you find snow ice cream to your liking. I try to make some every winter just to have specially for the hot part of summer. :D
DeleteGreat flower finish. Thanks for the link to the pattern.
ReplyDeleteYay for finishing the Sweet Peas! Those pinks sure are vibrant :-). Lily of the Valley is looking good too, although I know what you mean about not being motivated with a duller color palette.
ReplyDeleteYay thank you, and indeed they were quite bright. Maybe that helped move it along faster haha :D
DeleteCongrats on the beautiful finish, Rosey!! :) and nice to know that you liked working with pink, may be, the summer is affecting you too much ;)
ReplyDeleteGood start on your new project.
Thanks for the kit, I will email my address very soon:)
46-49 is way too much. We had a peak of 44 for almost two weeks which was not considered normal. Stay cool, keep yourself hydrated.
Congrats on the lovely finish and a new start:) It sure has been hotter this year, hope your stitching mojo comes back soon, haha. Congrats to the winners.
ReplyDeleteThank you muchly~ I'm so over the hot. Actually I'm over summer as soon as it starts haha. :D
DeleteCongratulations on finishing sweet peas and starting May flower. Wow 45-48 deg C temp..I had to look up on your blogger profile to know where you live. Good to know that somebody else also loathes summer as me. I hate summer and last year I didn't step out of the house for whole summer except other than going to office.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway. I will send you an email soon.
Thank you muchly and congrats~ :D I try to stay indoors when it is that hot though if I must, I do outdoor stuff in the early hours of the day before it gets too oppressive! I felt a hint of fall in the air the other day so relief is coming.
DeleteWell done to the winners! Congrats on your beautiful flower finish and you have made a really good start on the April one. Sorry to hear you have been struggling with the heat and that has driven away your mojo. I hope it will cool down soon.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful flower finish Rosey! I hope it cools down for you soon, I couldn't imagine how I would cope in that heat!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flower stitching!!
ReplyDeleteI too am not fussed with summer time... but I can't complain, in UK the temperatures are rather cool at the moment :)
Congrats to the winners too!!
Super flower stitching!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stitching. Keep cool! Tis very cold here if you want to come and stay! xox
ReplyDeleteI know *exactly* what you mean about the heat, I wilt too - it seems to hit me harder every year, and it's only up in the high 20s C here (although it feels like the 30s with the humidex)! We're definitely not hothouse flowers LOL ;) Your tea towel series is lovely, but the green flosses do seem much darker than charted, at least for the part you have stitched.
ReplyDeleteWell done on your finish and a good start from the lilly of the valley.
ReplyDeletewish you a lovely monday
Greetings from Holland
I think that both the sweet pea and the lily of the valley are very sweet.
ReplyDeleteWell done! I like your picture with processing. Next picture looks very beautifull too. Sorry to here about very hot weather.
ReplyDeleteThank ya kindly~ I like making the "movies" to see how the stitching went. I seem to move from one flower to the next... a lot. :D
DeleteI just love this series of monthly flowers and always enjoy seeing them on the blogs. You will see once you have the Lilies of the Valley finished you will love them a lot.
ReplyDeleteI hope your heat wave has gone by now and your stitching mojo has come back :)
Congrats on your latest finish. :) I like how you created a slide show.
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