A Slow Sunday where procrastination appears again and again...

 Hello - ok... I can't believe it is Sunday already... the week flew by me at mach speed... something to do every day and then several surprise events came up too... some good, some not so good ... but as I type this I think everything has settled down ... fingers crossed. 

As for a good surprise I was able to spend an afternoon shopping for petunias ... and a few other plants... I know I'm pushing it... but the 10 day forecast doesn't have a single temperature less than 40 degrees... and I'm not putting anything in the ground or in the window boxes so if Mother Nature throws a temper tantrum and does give us a cold night I can rescue my precious petunias and bring them into the garage.

Here's my cart at the garden center... lots of petunias and some verbena and a potted dahlia peeking out on the bottom...

Here's what I got so far... 

again I'm going to color block the shelves ... yellow, orange, pink, purple... I found lots of purple varieties ... but I'd like to find more yellow, orange and pink... need to check out a couple of other garden centers and circle back to the 2 I already shopped at... neither one had all of their inventory yet.  I also purchased 3 big planters... 2 for next to the garage and one I stuck on the patio... yes I could plant stuff up like this myself, but the older I get, the lazier I get, and the pots I got are already filling out and looking pretty... I'll show them next week.

As for crafty stuff ... I FFO'd 3 items... two I framed, and one I sewed into a little pillow... starting with the framing... so last week I showed a sampler that I had stitched in 2013 and it finally got framed... this week I'm showing you a sampler I stitched back in 2011 and this is the week it FINALLY got framed...talk about procrastination... sheesh...

this is Country Flower Sampler from Cedar Hill Designs... and I can't find a copyright date anywhere on this chart but I assume it had to be prior to 2011.  The designer's name is Maria Gossard and at the time these patterns were printed she lived not far from me... but I didn't know that.  Anyway at the time I was stitching this one I was very enamoured with this style of sampler that combined the alphabet with flowers and I purchased several other charts... which I found in my stash!!!  OMG ... I really really need to take a day and look at everything I have filed away... more procrastination to be sure... LOL

They are well aged at this point and I still like them ... and it's not out of the realm of possibility that I might stitch another... that one  in the upper left hand corner certainly caught my eye...  and I like that long narrow one at the bottom... and you can never have too many samplers with flowers... IMHO... 

The other piece I framed was Here Come the Robins by With Thy Needle & Thread...

I picked up that cute scalloped frame at Hobby Lobby ... it was brown and I painted it green... next time I'm at HL I'm going to see if they still have that style and get another one... I think it is very cottage-y and I like that look. Since I finished this after I had everything else arranged I just kinda plopped it down here...

That is my favorite vase... it is vintage Mccoy pottery... the little pillow is from the border of the Shakespeare's Peddler chart A Saviour's Praise and those flowers are alstroemeria...also called a Peruvian Lily... they are always inexpensive at Krogers... $5 for a bunch and they last a long time. I saw a potted plant of them the other day at one of the garden centers... I've never seen them before as a plant. They had shorter stems than these do but I think I need to go back and grab a plant and see what happens. 

As for a little pillow, I was able to FFO the Notforgotten Farm Bit of Honey bee that I started last week to pretty much match Bee's Knees from last year...

and they both look spiffy in my tier tray tucked in with some vintage Debbie Mumm teapots and another little pillow which is from Pineberry Lane - Tansy, Yarrow, Rue...

Here's a WIDE picture  of the living room and it looks enormous... which it isn't...

these  happy yellow quilts certainly brighten up the living room... the one on the wall....

is the pattern was from Kim Brackett's book Scrap-Basket Sensations and was called Flowers for Nana's Girl, but I call mine the buttercup quilt... a throwback to the 1968 hit by The Foundations  - Build me Up Buttercup... I still know ALL the lyrics to that one... anyway every flower is a different tone on tone yellow... OMG... I just realized that I started this quilt back in 2011 and I didn't get it finished till 2025... what does that say about me?  That good things come to those that wait?  Or again, Carol, you are a world class procrastinator? 

On the back of the couch is a charm quilt that I started prior to having this blog... so maybe 2010... it was part of a QAL and mine got bigger than I planned... there are 362 different yellow squares... lots of novelties, such as frogs, monkeys, hearts... 

I've made several quilts like this... lots and lots of different fabrics over the years ... they are some of my favorites but they do take time... lots of time... and the older I get the more I want to get things done NOW!! It would also help if I didn't let the projects get away from me and grow to humongous proportions but they always seem to do that...LOL

As for doing any actual sewing or stitching, very little was accomplished. I'm still plugging away on the Primrose Cottage American Sampler... 

I got the flag stitched and some little bits here and there... I want this done ... and it seems like it is close to being finished... but every time I pick it up I see that there is more to do... 

As for sewing I sewed these 3 very simple  blocks...

this is the start of my patriotic quilt... the pattern is a freebie from FQS called Jelly Roll Relish..

the fabrics are from Lori Holt's Americana collection and the Uncle Sam colorway from the Blossom collection. By my count (and we all know the issues I have with math...LOL) I need 49 blocks to make this fit my bed... so I have a looooooong way to go... 

So there is something I have to attend to M/T/W/Th but Friday  is still open... I'm hoping to squeeze in some stitching, some sewing and some gardening... fingers crossed... I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... I need to take Nick to get a haircut  in a bit and I want to pop into the garden center and order some sod which a friend said he's pick up for me later in the week and then another friend said they'd put it the lawn... I have such nice friends... later today we are taking Nick to a Brazilian all you can eat steakhouse to celebrate his 36th birthday... how did he get that old? Better question,  how did I get that old???  I was his age when I gave birth to him... sheesh. 

hope you have a good week!!

happy stitching-

carol fun