Warm & Humid & Patriotic Scroll

   Good evening,

    Super humid today and the pollen was very high here as well, so didn't attempt the much needed grass cutting. This is always on my mind as a major chore to do-we have two large lots on the lake and it is not an easy job being on a hill. We are supposed to get lots of rain so will see what happens.  It is too expensive to hire someone to cut and our yard is a real mess as well.

   Last evening I discovered honey bees on all of my nectar feeders-Such a pain this is-I am thinking the family farm up on the hill from me must have gotten bees-or the honey bees flew in from somewhere else and found my nectar.  So far the birds are still mostly getting some nectar.

  I decided to begin to set up my second slow stitch meditative scroll. I looked in my fabric stash and grabbed a few more homespun fabrics-and I dug out the big tub I shared to see what was in there.

   This brought back memoires of early years in my retirement. Ended up not being more civil war reproduction fabrics but I did find similar choices, along with reds and blues and even a couple of patriotic fat quarters. I even found some nice yardage that I forgot about and some pretty batiks

   I did order off of Etsy a patriotic jelly roll that were to be on the vintage looking side-I should have sent those back before I got into them-- not real happy with those fabrics-but I can use some of them. The rest I will donate to the animal shelter's thrift shop. I did fill up a couple boxes of books to donate too-

  Here is the start of the layout (click to enlarge)

I use quilters curved safety pins to keep fabrics in place. On You Tube many are doing an invisible baste instead of pins.  The take a very small stitch on top and large one underneath to secure everything without pins. Then they also leave the stitches in place. I do not mind these pins all that much but the stitches would probably hold the fabric smoother. I have not had issues with the pins on the bags I am using. So pins it is haha

   Have you been watching the soccer world cup? I know nothing about soccer but have been finding the games exciting and spectators very patriotic-so am enjoying learning about the game.

   It looks from the weather map that many of us will be getting rainstorms. We always can use rain here.

  Happy mid-week