A lot of yesterday was spent in the garden and scraping paint off the house to prepare for painting. I really like how this bed turned out...dahlias and bachelor buttons for dyeing, calendula for salve (and maybe some dyeing), mint (also a possible dye), borage for the bees and because I like their twinkly blue star flowers. Borage is good for other things too.
There are peas to pick...some of them I will freeze. Also blueberries, the earliest of them.
I will be out in the garden soon.
It rained overnight so I started today with sewing.
Some of the indigo fabric is being used to make a tunic. I didn't have enough fabric for even a short top with any of the fabric so I pieced fabric together so that there was enough. My plan is to add some embroidery around the neckline and where I pieced the fabric together. There is no pattern for this, just two squares with a neckline cut out.
I fell in love with this fabric several years ago and made a top and a skirt. Neither was worn much as the neckline on the top ended up being bigger than I liked and the skirt never felt right. The fabric is a double gauze. My thoughts are that while double gauze is recommended as a skirt fabric, it's not a good skirt fabric for me.
This morning I cut everything apart and tried again.
This is the One Yarn Minimalist Top pattern. The skirt makes up the body of the top and the shoulder pieces are made with fabric from the top. I also cut fabric for sleeves but decided that I like it better without sleeves.
So much better!
And then there has been pound cake (made to use up the eggs), berries and cherries, and yogurt. The raspberries are from the garden and the rest of the fruit from the farmer's market. So good...