Sunday has rolled around again. A sunny June day, bees buzzing like crazy around the purple flowering sage in the front garden, popping in and out of foxglove bells, intent on finding food and paying me no attention. I caught up on The Archers omnibus this morning - I was distinctly underwhelmed by the storyline about Jim's missing glasses. Yup, he'd lost his specs, hold the front page! - then a mooch down to the allotment to admire the rapidly ripening strawberries.
The afternoon was fairly aimless, a botched attempt at making a bag, I hadn't thought it through properly, and another chapter of the Alice Hoffman book. This evening will be sewing and telly, and I probably won't shift far off the sofa.
If you're wondering about the photo above, I was browsing on Instagram and came across a post from amandanadigart. She'd cut out squares of plain fabric, then sewn on two randomly shaped scraps. As she wrote: 'Stitch a shape on top of a shape. Just one row of running stitches. Then flip it, iron it and a new shape appears! A new two toned shape! A hybrid shape. A compound shape.'
So I thought I'd try it. Might be fun. Might not.
A few dabs from a glue stick helped. 
Lines of running stitch for decorative effect and to keep the fabric in place. 
I made four squares for this practise piece. (Practice? I never know what the correct spelling is.) The squares were joined together, I added polyester wadding and backing fabric, as well as binding. 
A closer look at the quilting lines. 
I think it's a good technique to use, picking out random scraps and using them to form equally random patterns. I may try this again, using a different colour for the background, and perhaps slightly larger scraps, so you get little glimpses of the background instead of larger blank spaces.
Crafting really is just playtime for adults, isn't it? That's why we enjoy it.
P.S. Today's music for my June 'Year of Wonder' challenge was a bold, exuberant overture from Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka (1804 to 1857).
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