POD 18

The potion is Felix Felicis... you can tell by the rest of the book that it's about good luck. I don't know if there is such a book on the list, but I wanted to make it.
Now on to butterflies for a few hours.
Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

 

POD 17 and Spring Flowers

This is my interpretation of POD 17... a bag from the Weasley's store and a few magic books. (Hey, aren't all books magical?)

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And now the flowers around my house in Vancouver, WA
This is a rose I brought from my house in CA.

I love that it's 2 tone. Inside of the petal is red, and the outside of the same petal is white. It has a tendency to long stems, too. Isn't it beautiful?

These are the Azaleas that were growing here when we arrived. I'd have liked the red colored ones... or those red rhododendrons (rhoddies) they have here. OMG I'll try to find a spot where I can take a picture of one. You won't believe the color!

 

Below is the "wild flower" that grows best in my yard. In CA we call it Loco Weed. It grows like crazy.

And that does it for today. Jennifer has already put out the next POD pattern, and if I have any chance to get it done in time I better get at it.  I want to make some butterflies for Saturday at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, too.  See you then.

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Just the One

Did you know the weather got nice here, and I've been out collecting Vitamin D... so all the sewing I did this week is:

I wanted to be represented on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge today. The color is dark green. I got close.

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your Spring weather - wherever you are.

Hugs

 

 

May is Coming Soon

Just reading through the blogs I follow, and noticed that Angela has chosen (very wisely, I'd say) green for the Month of May for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. May is meant for green - the birthstone is Emerald! Plus this is the month the grass grows and grows, isn't it? Anyway I did my scientific study of the color, and here are the results...

 My crayon box is the authority in this scientific study, as usual. This time I found 9 - count them - 9 green colors. They are listed below.

That is green at the top, followed by asparagus, olive, forest green, sea green, Granny Smith apple (my favorite) Spring green (the only one capitalized by Crayola) yellow green and the controversially named green yellow.

 

I discovered that there is very little difference between Spring green and green yellow.... Why have two so close in color? Another quandary: Why is yellow green greener than green yellow? When I read the ingredients on my groceries I'm to believe that the first listed ingredient is the most of the product. So I think yellow green should be more yellow, and green yellow should be greener... Are you with me on this very important question?  LOL
Anyway, now I've got the idea what to use for my butterflies. I should just go to the green bin and choose some fabrics. Lots easier.

And another thing...

The goldfinches have turned golden.  See two of them on the bird feeder stand?  There were lots of pictures taken to catch them... I deleted all the pictures without them. They are quick, or camera shy.

 (Also, look quickly... the sun is shining! In WA? What an anomaly). (I guess Ma Nature heard my thinking here.... As I am reading through this I noticed the sun has left the building. Sun is camera shy, too.)

I did start quilting on the Good Night Irene last night.... Two lines... one this way and one that way. Nothing to show, but I'm liking the looks so far.

So enjoy your green scraps, and I'll see you on Saturday at soscrappy for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Hugs,

 

 

POD 16 and magnolia

First a picture of the magnolia newly transplanted and loving the new space. See the new big leaves? and it has a new leaf bud forming again.

 

 

POD 16

Here's my block... a bit blurry, but you get the idea. It took me 3 tries to get it to this point.

I started to make Arnold the Pygmy Puff and thought... HMMM. If this is Harry Potter's bookcase, Ginny's stuff would be there, too. It'd be her Pygmy Puff there. Now what color was it? So I checked with a Wikipedia site and found out that her's was purple. Okay, start over. And then I wanted to use the "history of flight" fabric for Harry's book on fixing broomsticks... Oh well. It's just so busy that the broom gets lost. Start over again.  But I like how the block turned out... just not how the picture looks.

 

Now on to some H2H quilting. Finally!

Hugs

 

 

POD #15

This one was a challenge...

 

that's why I took so long to do it. I like it, but I should have made my vial white on the top. I used the back of the background fabric, and it isn't different enough to read as glass. Oh well, it is done. Too late to get it onto the Tuesday pictures on Fandom In Stitches, but done. Hope you like it.

 

Hugs,

 

 

H2H Progress Sharing Day

I don't know how much progress this is... I do have the basting pins into the sandwich. Hopefully quilting will begin this week.  This is where it has been for a week. It is on the sewing machine...lol

 

 The spotty white all around is batting with the butterfly backing showing through.

 

Here's how it looks straight on...with the pins and not quilted yet. I do have a plan for squiggly lines of quilting down through the legs of the Xs, and the batting will tolerate that little bit of quilting, but seems like there should be something in the squares as well. Suggestions?

So have a lovely Spring Sunday,

Hugs