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Monday, July 28, 2025

Design Wall Monday - July 28

 It was a HOT, humid and windy weekend, but with lots of things going on.  No sewing at all happened on Saturday.   


Saturday I spent the afternoon in a lawn chair under a tree watching wrestling held outdoors - in the heat at a baseball diamond.  They had to move the girls' mat twice trying to keep it in the at least partial shade.  Our granddaughter lost 2 matches, but pinned her last opponent.  She wore a long sleeved swim shirt under her singlet because the mat was so hot to the touch, even in the shade.  


Sunday morning I made a quick trip to the Arts in the Park - before the temps hit the 90s.  I got there as they opened up.  This park has a lot of shade thankfully.


My big purchases - fresh flowers, jam and syrup from The Jam Man, and ice cold lemonade.  Then I hustled home to hide out in my sewing room, out of the heat and humidity.


And found this in the window well of my sewing room.  It's a young opossum, and very much alive.  I have no idea if it just fell in there overnight, or had spent all day Saturday there too.  Poor thing!!  My husband wasn't home to help me, but I found a board in the garage and drug it out to drop into the window well - hoping the opossum could climb up the board to get out.  He didn't . . . so now my husband put down a ladder for the opossum to climb.  Hopefully he is gone this morning, but I haven't checked yet.


Eventually I did manage to get some sewing in.  The sunflower mini quilt is a flimsy, and sandwiched for quilting.  The binding is made too.  This might be the first thing I finish this week.  


 The placemats made from orphan blocks could be the second finishes for the week, if I can get them bound.  The bowtie placemat has binding attached, but these red/grey ones (3) will get some grey binding if there is enough. 

Overall my goals for this final week of July . . .
**  Sunflower mini
** bowtie placemat
** red/grey placemats & mug rugs
** last border on Indigo Way


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Love your current projects, Sarah.
Sharon M