Daily Notes- January 30

These are the tree blocks I found in the Magic Attic last week.  A bag full of trees and tree parts from 12 to 15 years ago.  I looked on the internet to check out Tree Quilts and hoped to find this particular pattern.  My friend K always followed the design on the pattern envelope to the letter.  We had to look for black and whites.  Some of these fabrics in the blacks and whites are my favorites.  So, I am wondering.........I know K wanted and used the music fabric as that was in the shop sample.  And the floral.  The zigzag and the crossed stars--are my taste.  I will never know the answer.  We haven't spoken in many many years.  And to make more--if needed, I will have to measure the parts.  Nothing written down.  I am thinking placemats or a small baby sized quilt and use just what's finished.  I just wish I knew how the red triangles were used in the design. Possibly in the outer border.  But there is no corresponding triangle to sew the red ones to.

That green with the little "ornament" dots" is typical Joanne.  Dots. So I picked that out.

G is out snowblowing the 6 to 8 inches of snow we gathered overnight.  It was raining around the time we were thinking about supper and by bedtime it was snowing.  It's 40 degrees right now but the newspaper reports that big old Polar Vortex is moving in again. Spring isn't coming anytime soon.

I got out a school room box of watercolors--I couldn't find the professional set- -but I did have a good quality artist brush---and I painted (or spattered) watery colors on a handful of teabags.  Just to see how that would work.  At the end I mixed blue and black for a watery dirty look and placed the dry tea bags on the plate where I mixed the colors.  Everything is drying in a spot of sunshine on the dining room carpet.  Riley is here by the computer.  Napping.  Lightly.  Ready to move whenever I do.  Once they are dry--I will audition the painted papers.  On an internet video I saw that I could draw little houses and poems on the tea bag papers (with a fine Sharpie) and then sew them to the foundation batting.

After the painted tea bags dry a bit more--I will iron them to set the colors.  Tea bag fabric is very strong--dry or wet. And now that I have seen the drawings on the teabags--I think I may draw a chair on one or two and a small house on another one or two.  Build a story on my tea bag surfaces.  Perhaps even a few flowers--- I have a few nice flower drawings in the journal I am working in right now--- it was started before the renovations and was forgotten.  So, before beginning another new one--- I will finish this last journal.   I have gone over the pages detailing the trials and tribulations of the bathrooms, closets and floors--jotting down "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey always did on the radio.  A future me might like to know how it all finished up.