Design problem

Thanks!

We went ahead and put the chair there and it's been SO nice. (No pics yet, it's not finished and I want to do a more complete "after" pic instead of "before" and "a little later" and "a little later yet" and...)

I thought I'd show a partial picture of the view though. There are a lot of things to see but the main one is our huge (~150') cottonwoods. We've discovered a lot of things since we moved the chair.



That lump in the "raccoon hammock" might possibly be a raccoon, I can't tell. That's where three of them were snuggled last night. (I took the picture a couple of days ago and wasn't looking for raccoons.) E.G. saw one climbing up the tree, otherwise we never would've noticed 'em. They glanced at us grumpily when we shone the flashlight on them but otherwise didn't stir much.

There's always something going on, the tree is critter city. Love sitting there and watching. E.G. and sozlet have a new routine of sitting there at night before bed, with all the lights off -- we still have a lot of snow so it's quite bright and easy to see stuff out there, when a lot of critters are stirring.

aaww that's great isn't it, when you've got some wild life practically in front
of your door - window in this case.

Our most exciting "animal watching" time was when we had this huge spider
outside my daughters window and we could observe how insects got caught
in the net and how the spider cocooned them.

I imagine that tree will look beautiful in the summertime with a full
set of leaves. Can you see the tree from your bed?

What a great stool and a great tree!

Was it hard to sew that trim to the fabric and have it come out square? Is there a trick? I've tried that but have never had it lay right when finished.

Great find in your stash - but I'd argue that it's more about your eye than coincidence. I find that people who have well-developed senses of colour/pattern often have coincidences like this. Shoes that work with a rarely worn jacket in the back of a cupboard, cups that match plates bought in a different decade and country. When you've got the eye, happy 'coincidences' happen.

S'fantastic!

CJane: Yep, it's really nice in the summer -- pretty much a solid wall of green out there. A little harder to see animals though. The spider sounds really cool!

boomerang: I start to explain what I did and get all tongue-tied -- showing I can do, explaining is harder.

The sari border had that green at the very edge and I wanted to use that, so I sewed that part on top of the red fabric (as opposed to the more usual right sides together, inside out, since if the seam was any more than about 3/8 of an inch, the green would disappear). Using black thread that disappeared nicely, I sewed right at the very edge and then again on the other side of the green (about 1/4 inch away) to make sure it stayed. (The green fabric edge was finished -- serged?) I -- mitered? -- the corners; that is, I folded over the edges at a 45-degree angle so they met at the edges.

THEN, after the sari border was sewed on, I turned the whole thing over and sewed the um vertical edge (the squared-off, sari-border-only part) with right sides together. I ran the seam up to the higher of the two existing thread lines, then when I turned it right side out, it had that shape to it.

All of it was very eyebally and improvisational, probably some simpler trick to it.

ehBeth: Hey, thanks! I'm having fun.

Just out of curiosity: Is this your swing tree? It looks very similar to me, but I'm not seeing the swing in the picture.

Yep. The rope of the swing is just out of the frame.

Also in this picture it looks kind of like it's one tree, it's actually a pair, one behind the other.