New projects?

The hot, hot weather has broken and it is raining at the moment so that has prevented me from going out on my bike for a good long ride and that has been the problem with the lovely weather. 

I love the sun and cannot bear to be indoors when we have it, so a great deal of 'sitting about on the patio reading' took place as it really was too hot to garden.  However some plants enjoyed the heat

My Callistemon (Bottle Brush bush)

 

This bee loved it

The bees were all over it!!

Walking along a pavement in the middle of Bedford I looked down and saw this -

I had no idea what it was and eventually I was told it was a Sycamore Moth caterpillar, but I didn't pick it up because of the hairs.  Poor thing I don't think it would have survived as it was heading for the road!!

I have started a new project, though I have been mulling it over for a week or two.  Let me explain!  My younger son runs marathons and sometime ago he has asked me to make a throw out of all his T-shirts that he accumulated over the years.  He completed marathon 85 last weekend and has planned to do marathon 100 this time next year when he will join the 100 Club!!  Anyway here they are

Just a small selection

I have cut out the logos etc out so the pile has reduced

and kept all the offcuts to use as sashing.  Some of the T-shirts are dreadful colours; fluorescent greens and orange, but some have interesting pictures, whilst the fabrics are awful for patchwork use so will need stabilising before I even start. A lot of work needed here but some ideas are forming.

I have crocheted pink flowers for Crazy Hats Beast Cancer Appeal

and am making crocheted 'Apples' for another project but they are a WIP (Work In Progress).

I am also smocking a new project and I showed practice pieces in an earlier post, but I have now started the real thing!!

Picture smocking

I have a new lever arch file for all my smocking projects and so this will be a book cover for it.  I think (and this maybe famous last words) I may have got the hang of this at last, after a great deal of practice!