Friday Finish: Persisting

Thought I'd pop in here with a surprise Friday Finish. It's not a quilt, because I'm not finishing those these days, but a little embroidery work! This is a shout-out to my shero Elizabeth Warren...although I can't decide if I'm disturbed that the quote is actually by a man I find completely odious and morally bankrupt ABOUT Elizabeth Warren...but in the meantime while I sort that out, look! Pretty colors and flowers!

The pattern is by Namaste Embroidery, but the color scheme just ended up being whatever I had some extra of in my embroidery threads pile.

July Update

Lake Vermillion, MN

Apparently I only post about once a month on this blog these days...sorry loyal readers! My sewing mojo just isn't there lately, and I'm fine to go with that flow for now. It's definitely better for my back and neck not to spend hours at my machine each day, and there are lots of other wonderful things to do, such as:

• Re-reading all the Outlander books, and then watching all the Outlander TV seasons. And then wasting deciding to prioritize time watching youtube videos of the TV cast being adorable and catching up on everyone's twitter feeds
• Outdoor yoga classes on the deck at my gym
• Discovering the joys of Costco's premade margaritas. They are good!
• Midnight swims at my favorite minneapolis beaches (swimsuit optional)
• Time spent at other people's cabins with family and friends
• Working on eating all the vegetables from my CSA box each week. Cucumbers, no problem. Pea shoots? Slightly more difficult

Of course, I've been doing SOME sewing, and here's an update on those projects:

A friend just had a little baby girl, so I'm working on this cute large scale flower quilt for her. The pattern is from Camille Roskelley, and it's easy. I started it before I knew the colors she was decorating her nursey in, which was a risky little game, but then I went over to her house for a tour and it's going to be perfect and fit right in with her color scheme! The top is finished, I just have to quilt it now and hopefully get it to her next week sometime.

I sewed all my Pineapple blocks together and decided it needed a little something more, so now I'm adding a Flying Geese border to it. Flying Geese blocks are my favorite block to make, but they are kind of slow, so this will take a bit. I'm 1/2 way done.

My Chevron Dresden Plate blocks are complete - the dresdens have all been sewn unto the background blacks, and now I need to sew them together into rows with borders in between each block. Sewing the rows together is my least favorite part of quiltmaking, so I'm putting it off for now.

That's it for now - see you in August!