Secret Sewing Is Finished... Now What?!

It's been decidedly wintry here in the past week or so... which is a good thing... because, well, it's WINTER!

Rain: great for the gardens & tank. Wind: to blow every leaf in the neighbourhood into a pile at my back door. Cold: to make it hard to get washing dry.

I just wish the rain was getting out to our agricultural areas, they need it so desperately.
I'd rather my garden be brown, if it meant the crops were growing & the grazing animals had something to eat.🐄🐑

My hands & feet usually go cold mid-May for their Annual Freeze, as I call it... thank heavens for gloves & thermal socks. My small reprieve this year is that the weather has been so mild during June, so I brought out the accessories a little later than usual.

Very pleased to have finished the Secret Sewing on the weekend... it's for the Christmas In July swap, organised by Cheryll... I really like what I've made, so now I just hope my recipient likes it also.

I've been a bit clueless about what to work on now... so I've decided on two projects to go between.

Project One:
the pressing & cutting the fabrics for a quilt pattern called SCARLET, which is not going to be scarlet, but BLUE... hhmmm, a new quilt name is in order!

Project Two:
A couple of years ago, I won this pack of Moda 5" squares...

My attitude towards batiks has softened somewhat since the making of the Sows Ear Quilt, so I decided it was time to sew with them... I've added some more squares & marked them in readiness for sewing into half-square triangles.

The colours are really so gorgeous, I love them... I've got a good feeling about this project!

I was having lots of trouble finding a background/solid to go with them... happily, an online order has been placed for that now.

Having a couple of easy no-think machine projects will be good for my MoJo.

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day