Another week....

 ......has flown by! The weather cooled, now it is getting hot again! However the garden is at it's best and I will add in a few photographs at the end. But first up this weeks progress on my stitch journal.

Coming to the end of the month, the end of the fabrics I have been using and threads are now restricted. So it is time to finish up this journal and make a start on a new one, so more on that next week. However, I have been working this week on a small envelope bag which will be a home for this journal.

Some years back I used some of the same fabrics and threads to make a small memento of our home in France following a Cas Holmes online workshop.

6 was the number of our house, the sunflower was made for me by a friends son and we could see fields of sunflowers from our terrasse each summer and lots of flowers from our garden.

I tea dyed a damask napkin, cut it to size and hemmed all around. Then I covered it with the picture and other oddments of fabric before stitching all over with running stitch to hold everything in place. 

I then just overstitched the two sides together and I have a bag.

You can just see that I have added the date to the front flap. Now all I need is to do is add some threads to make a wrap around tie - my brain is still working on that one! I shall be back on Tuesday with more pictures.

I opened up a couple of my solar jars this week with interesting results.

I am afraid the colours do not show up well in the picture. However, the threads on the left were dyed with carrot tops which gave a very pale lemony yellow. The threads and fabric on the right were dyed with Sambucus flowers which look very similar but have a definite lime green tinge which you may be able to spot better in the silk waste. Both very pretty.

Now, as promised, I will leave you with a few pictures of the garden. Have a great weekend.