And then the sun came out..(and went away again )

and we got a little heatwave.. I m not good with high temperatures, perhaps because I’m a redhead, turning strawberry blond, turning grey..😜Anyhow…. a quilt on your lap is NOT an option, nor sitting in a warm quiltroom sweating away behind a machine. Mind you: the biggest part of my house is facing south and my aircosystem is opening all the windows in the evening. Advice is to close them all during the day ánd close the curtains as well. Not for me.. the sliding door in my livingroom is wide open and the curtains are too. I need the air and gardenview. 

But! I will not sit with idle hands, so I took out my stamps and stamped a gazillion triangles.

and Sewed those in small rows, 2dark,2light and attached them to a larger triangle. 

 ….Then I needed a contrast colour!So hot or not, off to the fabric store!

And when you put it all together, you get something like this

Meanwhile, we had 2 weeks of heavy rain with a bit of hail now and then. From sweating to shivering!

But! Since this million triangles will take forever, I just keep on stamping, cutting and sewing.. ( sorry for the Gossip in the garden quilt that is quietly moaning on the rack: no progress on that front)

End of the crosstitching outburst?

 It seems that the winter of crosstitching is reaching it`s end.. My mind drifts more and more to fabrics!

It was a welcome distraction from the health issues and hospital nasties I had last year.

And I found that a quilting project isn’t the thing that you easily take to hospital. I had no ready-to-go handsewing project at hand. All I had then, was a rather boring book and a windowview.

 

Besides, when nurses come to get you for tests, it is not easy to shove the quilting a side immediately.

So, a crosstitch project is more portable and my one colour thingies from www.longdogsamplers.com were small enough to toss aside whenever necessary.

I kept on with embroidery, because there were no fabric choices and layout choices to be made and it took quite some time for my mind to relax again.

I will keep this blue project for `just in case` and `you`ll never know`situations. And for `I need something to do while on the road`..

It is a rather big project with 100 blocks. I stitch on an average of 1 block a day.

But now fabrics and quilts are on my mind again. The Gossip quilt needs to be (finally) finished and other patterns are calling.

Shall I do a panama pyramids quilt or the cheddar stars by youngatheartquilting (check her insta, it s lovely)

Perhaps I should go back to the old routine of quilting in the evenings and patchwork during the day…