I have finished the little embroidery kit from Hoffelt & Hooper -- it's called "Charlotte" in light gray on their website, but is unnamed in their Etsy shop -- the frame is from Universal Happy Gift (!) both on Etsy. My photo does not do justice to either its color or its prettiness, but it is just too hot to mess around with the now-manual-focus-only camera any more, I'm afraid -- at least I did pretty well in keeping most of the reflections off of the Plexiglas. On the bright side, I'm delighted with the frame and the finished piece, which brings the score into the positive!
Yeah, it's just really hot, and it has been for over a week. Our old house looks wonderful with its new coat of paint, but it still doesn't have air conditioning, and a week-and-counting of well over 100°F temps (40°C!!) leaves us just lying over flat surfaces like Dali clocks.
Also finished, well in time for Julia's departure for her university dorm room, is this Prism quilt à la "kelp forest". I'm still a bit regretful that I couldn't manage something more like a proper kelp forest, but there it is. I might never have finished! -- I've enjoyed in the past figuring out how to sew curves on clothing bodices, but so very many curves, in different fabrics, for a bed-sized quilt ... well, Julia liked this pattern and the batiks with the sand-colored Kona Cotton, and I think it came out all right (!).
I "arranged" the blocks so that there are more of the darker colors towards the bottom and lighter ones towards the top -- underwater and all -- though I'm not sure now if that really reads as such. I do get a kick out of the little fishies print here and there, though!
