Some weekend oddments

I picked away at various things this weekend. I had thought of going in to work on soils on Saturday, but the intensive work on Thursday and Friday led to something like a repetitive-stress injury (at any rate, the shoulder of the arm I use to "stir" the soil was sore and feels kind of stiff). So I worked on other things, changing out projects as I decided what I was working on was making my shoulder uncomfortable.

I did do a little housecleaning and also took down the Easter decorations from the mantel (I know, I know: it's practically Independence Day. But I was busy and it was one of those things that was pushed away from my concentration).



I did leave the little clay bunny (It's not white clay - more like the heavy "everyday" sort of pottery made of earthenware, so I can't really call it 'china' or 'porcelain.'). I like the bunny; there is something about it that I find aesthetically pleasing - the shape, the smoothness, the color. So I left that, put up a few more artificial flowers, moved my tealight holders back to center stage, and called it good.

I also worked some on the borders of the quilt (Sadly, that quilting doesn't show up at all well in this photo - I'm just doing sort of a diagonal in-the-ditch quilting along each patch). It goes a lot faster than the quilting of the blocks did; I can see being done with this in not too much longer.



When that began to wear on my shoulder, I switched to sewing on the current quilt top. This is one out of fabrics gleaned from my stash, and I'm not sure how it's going to work in the end, the fabrics might come out all clashy, but we'll see. Here are a couple of the blocks (they are just very simple rectangles, then they are sewn into strips, and the strips are joined by sashing).



It may still surprise me. Actually, those blocks sitting together look nicer together than each did sitting alone.

I also finished off by working some on the embroidered pillowcases I've had in the hoop for a couple years. Like the quilt, I can now see the end of these, and so I've gained more motivation to work on them. (I just have some of the green outlining of the leaves, and some gold outlining of the "fence" left to do. Also that one butterfly.)