Surviving the Heat Wave and Another "Bangle" Tea Towel Holder

Yesterday was an extremely hot day and the only place to escape the heat was to celebrate Canada Day at the lake or river or to seek out an air conditioned building somewhere.  The temperature was recorded at 38.5 celcius or 101 F.  Where we live it was even a little warmer.  Unfortunately our air conditioning unit decided to take a break and quit working.  Fortunately we were able to get someone out later today and they were able to fix it.  Was almost impossible to even think about claying in that type of heat.

So here is another tea towel holder I made using one of my stripe blend "bangles" formed this time into a rectangle.

  I used some of my left over color blends from my bargello to create the stripe effect in the towel ring.

The lime button was from a cane that I had made some time ago that I still have plenty of.

I only used a small piece of fabric to make the hanger and was really quick to whip up.  It is basically a rectangle piece with a loop to hook onto the button.

Happy Canada Day!

Today is Canada Day and there will be plenty of celebrating across the country.  We will be making our way to the park at the beach in our little village to take in some of the live music and later on, enjoy the fireworks in the evening from our backyard.

It is tradition to wear our Canadian colors on this day which is red and white and that is what these pieces reminded me of.  Can you guess what they are for?

It is a tea towel holder for our kitchen to hang on the stove handle.

I've been wanting to make myself one of these for some time now and this is one of my first prototypes.  Some of the ideas I come up with are basically stemmed from something I would like for myself.  We also had some of the quilt stores ask for ideas on ways to use some of our buttons such as this tea cup one.

The ring that I made is basically a bangle bracelet that was textured with Helen Breil's "Conga Line" texture sheet which is one of my favorite patterns.