Red White and Blue Ribbon Day

I won 9 ribbons at our county fair!!! so exciting I entered 9 different items, jam, perserves, jelly, and barbeque sauce and pickles, as well as my sunflower pillow and mini flower table penny rug!

What fun to enter the fair, I hadn't entered anything in a while and having so many ribbons was a real thrill!

My husband gave me a very early birthday present a wonderful jam cupboard! Guess he wants me to keep it full ? And it is just about full and I haven't even gotten to apple picking!

On Tuesday a friend gifted me with a huge bag of tomatoes, so I made barbeque sauce and then on Thursday I was gifted with 14 lbs of peaches so I made spiced peaches. Boy are we going to be eating good this winter, and yes I have to buy more canning jars LOL

wool crazy and sunflower make do

I found a plain glass candle stick at a garage sale ... okay so I was looking for one! I made a sunflower make do, how cute is that! The instructions were in Needl'Love's French Market threads, I loved making it and I absolutely needed more sunflowers in my home. I made this to match the pillow I made from the same book.

The wool crazy table topper is almost ready to finish, I have to start another, just so much fun and I have a new collection of hand dyed wools. I have to decide if I want to add borders or just bind it. I want to make a round one for fall and maybe winter, the possibilities are endless!

another day at the cannery

PEACHES!!! yummy! what to make with a wonderful bowl of peaches you ask?? I made a zesty peach barbeque sauce and still had a few peaches left (not enough for a pie) and I had a good amount of cherries in the frig so I made peach cherry conserve!! My kitchen smells so good! Tomorrow it's hot pepper jelly cause the peppers are arriving......then the red tide starts rolling in.....better known as tomatoes and then apples, need more jars,need more jars! if only my friends that are gifted with these yummy delights would remember to return my jars!

PS I don't use the same jars for canning that I use for dyeing, I have separate utensils for both

dyeing wool

Microwave Kool Aid

Country classics acid dye

Wilton food coloring leaf green darker is over dyed

Today I played with dyeing wool, I did Kool Aid Acid dye and Wiltons food coloring.

Most came out great and I look forward to using them in my next project, I want to try some more of the wilton food color, the green I used was leaf green with a dab of brown, I dyed the lighter one on white wool and the deeper one was over dyed on camel.

I did some over-dying with the kool aid and the wilton's and had good results.

With the price of wool I decided to experiment and was happy with the results, I want to do more! Need to make a trip to Good will and see what wool they have hanging around!

wool crazy progress

I've been working on my wool crazy summer themed block and having lots of fun, so many ideas and so little space LOL may have to make more, just to much fun. I have really needed to brush up on my embroidery skills or should I say lack of??

my month of june

Dilly green beans, zucchini relish, lime pickles, strawberry jam and bing cherry conserve

Sweet Liberty pattern by Pat Sloan with my personal touches

Baskets of Geraniums

Moda U basket quilt

Been busy canning, made strawberry jam, Dilly green beans, lime pickles, zucchini relish and Bing Cherry conserve, sure will enjoy these next winter, my gardens have been taking it tough with the extreme heat, but we now have a few days of cooler weather.

Finished my Moda U basket sampler quilt, several wool table mats and have continued working on Calico garden.

I have done a bunch of projects from Primitive Gatherings "Summer Gatherings" have to finish/frame my fresh cut daisies.

wool wool and more wool

I am having such fun with wool! I made this cute pillow from Needl' love's French Market, and there's lots more from that book I want to make. I did make several changes, I sewed the rings of petals down with my machine using the walking foot and then not feeling the love with my attempts at rug hooking ( I did really try) I used a brown plaid wool, blanket stitched it on and added chenille knots. I used saftey pins to attach to the pillow top, this way I can make more flowers for different seasons and not have to make another pillow. Thinking I might need to make a daisy or a zinnia maybe a rose??

Earlier this week I started the flower penny rug from Summer Gatherings the flowers are the same as in the flower walk table mat but much much smaller I placed a dime on the mat so you can really see the size, I did use fusible web for the mini flower, I kept the pieces in little glassine bags, so I wouldn't lose them.