Since we spent the morning in Albany getting my ear checked, I didn’t get into my studio till the afternoon.
I could hardly wait. All those hand embroidered linens on my studio floor like puzzle pieces waiting to be fit together.
I started with the teapot, cup and apron. With a little trim the blue cup and flowers fit perfectly on top of it. Having that triangle and the flowers off center was just right.
Next the iced tea and flowers.
Then the geranium and pitcher of iced tea.
Some of the linens, like this one, are thing enough to see through. I don’t want the cotton batting to be that close to the surface, so I put a piece of cotton fabric with a large floral design under it. It’s not enough to distract from the linen, but a suggestion of something beneath the surface.
I cut the triangle sides off the blue teapot, pitcher and sugar bowl and sewed them back on to square off the point. I try to preserve the fancy edges whenever I can so this quilt already has a lot of top stitching.
I was just working on the last red tea pot and table and chairs when my phone let out a screeching alarm. Another tornado warning. The second in one week.
The last tornado that hit our area was in the late 90s in a town forty five minutes away. And that unheard of at the time.
I’m beginning to think this new weather event is something we’re going to have to get used to.
I did take pictures first then closed up my studio and did the same weather prep of opening the gates and stocking the basement, as I did last Wednesday.
We were fortunate once again and didn’t get a tornado or even the 80 mile per hour winds that others did. We did get a thunder, lightning, wind and a good soaking, which the grass and flower appreciate.
