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Columbia River, CozyAfternoonQuilt, Pasco, quilting, sewing, Sunday Sevens, Wade Park, Washington
Sunday Sevens is a weekly blog series in which we post seven-or-so pictures from our week and give our online friends a little peek into what we’re up to. Please feel free to join us–every week or whenever the mood strikes. Seven pictures, three pictures, ten pictures–whatever. 😉 See Natalie at Threads and Bobbins for more info.
Was a bit more productive this week, I’m happy to say, and exercised a bit more, always a good thing.
On Tuesday, I took a walk along the Columbia starting at Wade Park in Pasco. Not sure what island that is there . . . .
I always take (and post) pictures of GREEN wherever I find it, but this is pretty much what eastern Washington looks like in late summer:
Nice haul from the fruit stand this week, including zucchini, red and yellow onions, a butternut squash, and a box of tomatoes.
Some of the tomatoes will go into recipes this week–the ones I save for tomato season–and the rest will be chopped up and frozen. We have a massive freezer, but little storage space, so it makes more sense for me to freeze them than to can them.
My mother went through her fabric and gave me some cast-offs. Some of these will go to SCRAP, but I’m definitely hanging on to that swirly rayon challis in the middle of the pile there and the stripey knit on top.
More home improvement–made a valance for this (formerly very bare and quite sad) little window in the bathroom. Please forgive the terrible lighting and weird color here; it was the best I could do. The fabric is the same one I used for the tote bag I made recently; the lining is from an old blue rayon shift dress (loved the fabric, but it wasn’t sturdy enough for clothing and kept developing holes at stress points).
I had a brain cramp while cutting this out and put the wrong edge of the pattern on the fold, leaving me with a valance with a long center and short sides.
*headdesk*
After a few deep breaths and some swearing, I decided to slit the fold and just put a seam in the middle. Not ideal, but good enough. And I have to say I’m loving all the color in this window now.
I did the embroidery for my fourth Cozy Afternoon block; hoping to finish the block today, just in time for the next one coming tomorrow.
Is this cute or what?
I’m also planning to cut out my Greenstyle Laurel today, as the Greenstyle Facebook group is having a contest. I’ve been agonizing over sizing on this, but I just need to dive in–what I’m making is supposed to be a muslin, anyway.
Have a crafty week, everybody!
STH
Living in Color 
I love your embroidery, yes it’s certainly cute! I can’t believe how un-green it is where you live. It’s soooo green in the UK. Probably especially in summer, haha!
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I love all that green in the UK! So jealous of people who have green all year long. But we only get about 5″ of rain a year here in eastern WA–Seattle on the other side of the mountains gets all of it (and actually has a very similar climate to that of London). Good land for growing things here, but you have to irrigate. Thank you for the compliment; finished the block and it’s a little wonky, but I love it. ;).
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That is a LOT of tomatoes! Love the embroidery + valance; I can’t tell you made a mistake with it 🙂
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Thanks! It helps to make everything out of super-busy prints–harder to pick out the mistakes that way. 😉
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Cute embroidery. The window looks fab 🙂
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Thank you — that window cheers me up every time I see it!
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Nice Sunday post. I think your little valance is very cute – and like Natalie said, you can’t even see any flubs. I have window that needs a bit of dressing, might have to try something like this. 🙂
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Thanks! Because I wasn’t feeling particularly smart that day (even before putting the wrong edge of the pattern on the fold), I used this tutorial as a reference: http://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/2014/02/tutorial-how-to-make-tab-top-valances/. It’s a really small window, though, so my tabs are much smaller and my valance is less full; it’s more like 1 1/4 the width of the window (my Vogue home decor book recommends 1 1/2, but I was short on fabric). It’s an easy way to dress up a bare window without losing any light.
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I never spotted the seam until you mentioned it, it’d be way about my eye level in real life too! Love your embroidery. I’ve just bought a sewing magazine which has a section showing how to do it so I’m going to give it a go! 😀
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I love the valance. So colorful and cheerful. The embroidery is very cute. My mother did embroidery a lot but I never have. Not sure why.
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Thank you! The embroidery has a different sort of rhythm to it than sewing an item of clothing . . . I don’t knit or crochet, but I imagine it’s closer to that–doesn’t require a lot of thinking, moves at a slow pace, that sort of thing. Not everybody’s cup of tea, but I find it a nice complement to the other crafty things I do.
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