Slow Sunday Stitching

It was another busy week.  There is always prep work getting ready for community service workday at my house.  I have to get all my sewing supplies off the kitchen and dining room tables.  And clean the house.  Wednesday was workday and this time my co-chair Cathy was on vacation, and apparently some of our other usual group of 6-7 was too.  There were just 3 of us this time, but we got a number of quilt batting and binding cut ou9t, enough so that we have filled our bins again for pin basting day in a couple of weeks.

I have also spent this week working in the garden, and working on getting the stump of my poor 40+ year old camellia out.  It looked liked this, and just seemed to be getting worse and worse, dropping all its leaves, and I took it down several weeks ago.  It was probably 9 feet tall.  

In removing the stump of the camellia, and the superficial roots, I found out why it died.  When the gardeners who did my work last year broke up the soil, they actually cut most of the major roots.  I have hardpan here, and it took me 4 days to dig a hole for the new plants I purchased.  I would put water in the hole to soften it up, and it would still be there the next day.  But I finally was able to dig one deep enough for a 2 gallon Dinner Plate Hibiscus.  

I also planted a new camellia, and a gardenia.  I also spent time hooking the drip irrigation back up.  This area is in the shade most of the day, but gets the sun in the afternoon.  I am hoping I am able to eventually have shade out here again so my begonias can again reside.

I went up to WalMart the other day to purchase some laundry detergent, and found that apparently Tide has to be locked up now.  I don't use Tide, but another customer said people were stealing Tide and selling it.  

We are still in the 90's this week.  My poor hydrangeas are looking poorly.  

I made an unusual discovery in part of my garden my amaryllis is about to bloom again! 

The other thing I have been working on for 3 days this week was making birthday cards on my Cricut.   I have 6 family birthdays in August, and I am trying to make everyone a card.  I have made some pop-up cards and foiled cards.  For some reason my Cricut hasn't been behaving, the stylus tool keeps popping out.  I am having to cut things out 2-3 times to make all the components.  I discovered late Saturday there is probably something wrong with my Cricut Design Space on my Laptop, the one on my iPad seems to be working.    So I plan to get a new copy for my laptop.

My grandson Jaeger came over Friday night to help me do something and saw my Cricut on the table, and remarked I had a Cricut.  Apparently he purchased a Cricut Explore 3 on Facebook Marketplace 3 weeks ago, and has been cutting out some things in iron-on vinyl and applying them to t-shirts.   These are some of his designs.  

 

When he went away to college I gave him a little sewing kit so he could sew on buttons etc.  I told him boys should be able to do everything girls do.   He bought a small sewing machine and actually hems up his jeans and Lacross pants.  

This is Jaeger and his new truck.  

I think that is it for this week.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching this week is this secret project, which will be revealed in a couple of weeks.  

I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and check out what everyone is up to.  

Thanks for stopping by!