SAL's, Hexagon EPP, Redwork Embroidery, A Fishing Grandfather

 Another blast of humidity this week make us so happy that autumn is just in the wings now. Here are more of the Zinnia blooms with their starry stamens. They are annuals but very long lasting once in flower.

Not a great photo but I liked this capture of the female Cardinal sharing nicely with a Redbreasted Nuthatch. Though she appears to be giving him the eye, they were there together with the Nuthatch going back and forth, for quite a while. 

Before I forget again, I want to share with you a SAL occurring now being hosted by Taryn the Repro Quilt Lover. She owns an antique quilt sewn with Ohio Star blocks that features many different fabrics in a block, up to 16! Yet the quilt looks so cohesive and lovely. Taryn thought this would be a great scrap busting project to sew some blocks using the same challenge so she started this SAL.

Read all about it here...Antique Quilt Repro SAL. Stars are always popular and folks are rising to the challenge and including many scrappy fabrics in each star block with wonderful results. 

Another of my Facebook groups I enjoy is this one...

I love Tilda fabrics and their latest line called Hibernation is so pretty and features a small wildlife. Anyway, there is a Files section on the group homepage with free downloads of both embroidery and quilt patterns. Mostly the work of Fiona Fee Ramsey who is the administrator. So something else to check out if you like.

 

And my own stitching...

I've sewn together more of the aqua/teal hexagons. I've included a few white for contrast.  The free template came from Jodi at Tales of Cloth  and I think these are the 2 inch size. I enlarged the photo so you could get a look at my very old April Cornell table cloth in the background. It is a little faded now but a treat still to get out each autumn...one of my all time best thrift purchases. I will share this with the Aqua RSC party at So Scrappy.

One more block of Mom's Redwork project is done. This one, a fisherman in a dory. The fabric used is quite good linen and the needle slides through it beautifully. Rosy glow to the light in this photo.

And here below is my grandfather, Dad's Dad, who fished for a living, similarly in a boat. He's the one in the white cap. He fished with the same two men till his mid seventies. I got to go out with them once when I was eleven. It was scary...the waves were high and they had to push down the side of the boat almost into the water while pulling up the net. The boat seemed very small and of course, the ocean rough and very big. 

But I got to see the little fishing village, Maberly, from the sea...a wildly different view than I was used to. The image is in my mind's eye still. I wrote a poem about it called Maberly From the Sea soon afterwards I was so taken with it. He's who Ned is named after, which since he liked dogs, I think he would approve of. 

Writing this during another heat wave just when we thought that was behind us. Hope all is well with you and yours and you have a great weekend. 

Happily sharing this post with Not Afraid of Color, Kathy's Quilts, Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Small Quilts and Doll Quilts, Quilting is More Fun Than Housework  and Alycia Quilts.