This was a runner up for Saturday's picture. I stayed with the paper piecing because that represented what I did for the day better but I loved these cherries so I'm sharing them too. Cherries are one of my favourite summer fruits. I just wash and pick through them and then leave the bowl on the table for us to pick from throughout the day.

Now I'm on the lookout for rainer cherries for our summer clafouti.

Two weeks in one post. Lots of variety.



We were super lazy and got Chinese food for dinner. This was my fortune. We figured it meant I should email my brother (who lives in Toronto).

Do you ever see something that just makes you want to sew (or knit or paint etc.)? I'd had a kind of a crummy Thursday and was spending my evening hunched over at my computer reading blogs when I came across this post at Lovely Design (an awesome place to visit by the way). I didn't even read the post until later on. I saw that first picture and just needed to be in my sewing room putting fabric together. I wanted to hear the machine and smell the iron and create something from little bits of fabric.

It actually took me a little while to figure out what to work on. I didn't really want to spend time cutting up stuff before sewing so I was looking for something that was already ready to go. I have a few quilt tops in the works but they are hand piecing projects and that wasn't what I wanted. I thought about grabbing my scraps bin and sewing the bits together (I've done that before) but I didn't want to start a new quilt top when I knew there weren't enough scraps in the bin to finish it yet. After a bit more searching I unearthed this box and it was just what I needed.


This is a paper piecing project I started a few years ago. It was a class I took with my mum for Mother's Day. Have you ever tried paper piecing? It's totally different from any other kind of piecing I've done. Sew, trim, cute. Sew, trim, cut. It's rhythmic and simple and the theme of this picture is just right for the season.

My sister and I went to the nursery today. I've been avoiding it as "too tempting" until I had an actual reason for going. I went looking for pansies and came home with a bunch of other stuff (plus the pansies) to add colour to our front yard and some veggies to our diet.

The green houses had posters up introducing us to their new "staff" of whom we saw many as we walked around looking at flowers.


We also found this fat, busy guy working his way along the pansy shelf.

I love all those colours.

While we were in such a pretty setting I got Jane to take a few pictures of my new skirt.