I'm still here....still sewing and trying to finish my projects for the quilt show. Of course, lots of other stuff is going on as well, most of which is too boring to go into. You know, all that day-to-day stuff we all have going on. But that's not why you're here, is it?
Remember my Traveling Round Robin? (If you missed the blog post about that, you can see it here and here.) Well, my Robin has come home to roost! This is all my blocks when I got them back. Aren't they awesome? Everyone did a great job on the blocks. In fact, they were all almost the perfect size. In about 10 days, I had them all put together into a quilt top. It is currently being quilted. I forgot to take a photo of the flimsy, so you'll have to settle for this photo for now. Of course, I'll show the finished quilt when it's done! I'm getting excited to see it!
The first weekend of August - over a month ago now! Time flies! - my DH The Potter had one of his big art shows of the year. Of course, it was blazing hot. But we survived and sales were good. This show is put on in a beautiful garden that I always enjoy visiting. I got a couple of photos that I want to share with you.
This garden is full of vignettes of fun yard art. This guy enjoying the teeter-totter was right near where we were set up. Isn't he fun?
And this is Mt. Rainier, photo taken across the neighboring farm's pastures. The next day the smoke came in and you could barely see the mountain. This is the least amount of snow we've seen on the mountain in the 8 years we've been here. There's snow up there now though!
Once I got "My Lucky Stars" to flimsy status (see previous post), I took a break from what I was supposed to be doing to get this little baby quilt put together to flimsy status. I had inherited two of these columns of patchwork, and enough left-over bits to make the third column. So I put them together and they looked pretty good. I'm not quite sure why the ends all came out different lengths. It should have worked out. Oh well, the baby won't be a critic. I found this yellow plaid and it worked pretty well. Now all I have to do is get this quilted - someday. It was a nice break from all the "have-to's".
Last month DS found a nest of baby bunnies in the yard. We watched them for a week or so, and when they were big enough to venture out on their own, he caught one of them. We petted him and talked to him and then we let him go. He was so soft! And very sweet. I've never been that close to a wild bunny before, although they are in the yard a lot the last couple of years. They're not very afraid of us. That was fun - bunnies are some of my favorite animals.
If you've ever seen the movie "Field of Dreams", you'll recognize this take on the tag line for the movie. This cracked me up!
Here is a harbinger of Autumn. We've had some fairly cold weather lately (a high of 61* today) and some of the trees are already starting to show color. It seems early to me this year. Oh, and the wild geese are already heading south - actually, they have been for weeks now.
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"My Lucky Stars" is back from the quilter and is getting it's binding put on right now. Photos soon!
