It was pretty perfect timing that a new floral stitches sampler arrived in the mail the day after I got back from vacation. I was definitely in the mood.
It felt like this one - a poppy?? - was one of the quicker samplers in the series. In fact, I had a really hard time stopping. So I took the time to add echo stitching inside the flower pedals, and a combination 'border' - first a twisted chain stitch, followed outside by a back stitch. At that point, I called it done!
Near the end of August, I took my #1 sewing machine in for a cleaning, then promptly left for a 10 day vacation. That all resulted in over a two-week break from sewing. Period.
So over the weekend, I finally drug out a backup machine, and got to work on this month's #seamqgbom2024 blocks - a combo of striped and regular HSTs.
Boy that felt good! The blocks were straight-forward enough to be a perfect reintroduction back into sewing. Just two more sets of blocks to come in this delightful BOM.
