What do you do on a powerless weekend?

Let's go back in time. 

This butterflies piece has been floating around my studio

 for a long time. I have been unhappy with it and ready to scrap it,

but hated to waste all those hours spent making so many butterflies.

At one point I started to create a colorful and realistic butterfly

 to add as a center of interest.

I did finish and added it but this colorful butterfly was out of place 

and did not make me like the piece any better.

 Here above and below details that I kept coming back to, but still was unhappy.

 So in between other thoughts and art I started drawing dead or falling apart 

dried cone flowers. 

Colored pencil drawing on the left with photos on the right.

Friday morning I looked out my studio window and saw these 

 deer wandering around our yard and the one next door.

We do live in the District of Columbia with a very small yard.

How they got through all the traffic and crossed so many streets is a miracle.

Then Friday at about noon, I finally decided to 

cut my butterfly piece in two and make it a pair or diptych. 

 

 As I cut it in two pieces, our power went out. 

While the NE was having a very bad storm we had the high winds, here.

Now what does a person who would rather shoot myself 

than go without my sewing machine do?

And in the cold........

 Having added a very warm sweater or two,

I sat by a sunny window, as it was still daylight and very bright 

and started to hand stitch a lining.

Continuing on a powerless Saturday and sitting by 

our gas fireplace and a close window

I continued to, ugh! hand stitch a lining on both pieces.

Now must connect all the pieces and add that casing.

About 9 PM on Saturday our power came back. 

We are once again warm and I will happily go back to 

my wonderful sewing machine to finish this pair.

Perhaps in my next episode I will show a completed butterfly pair.