Progress and Prevention

Making progress. I’d be further along if I didn’t keep sewing one piece upside down in every. single. block. So annoying.

18” blocks

I always worry about red fabrics bleeding, especially when there’s a lot of white. Normally I’d wash the red first, with a bunch of color catchers, but this was a kit and the fabric was cut small so…  

Spotted a blog post with a new-to-me method for checking - wet small pieces of fabric, lay them on top of each other and, once they’re dry, look for color transfer. Genius.

After seeing the results, I ordered a big ole bottle of prevention, aka Synthrapol, which suspends the excess dye in the wash water and keeps it from re-sticking to the fabric. Crossing my fingers …

Just Me?

Anybody else wait until days before a holiday to start a new holiday-specific project?

One block down, 11 to go

Christmas, Halloween, 4th of July - it’s a habit. 

Oh well. Hoping I can finish this before the weekend is over and enjoy it next year… when I’ll probably have started another new project…

Caterpillar

We have our first ever Monarch caterpillar on our first ever milkweed plant. So exciting!

We spotted him almost 2 weeks ago, when he was just a tiny thing.

I hadn’t seen him (her?) the last two days and was afraid something had happened, but he’s back,  bigger than ever. 

The littles can’t wait for the chrysalis stage to start. (Me neither!)