Memorial Day

You answered the call and gave it your all. We are grateful.

Design Wall Monday

I haven't played "design wall Monday" for ages, and while I still have the same quilt, Patchwork Posies", on the design wall, I am finally getting around to finishing it. Just two more blocks to stitch, and I can start sewing the rows together and add the sashing and borders and load it onto the long arm. Yeaah!

Did I also mention to you how freeing it has been this past week to not have a lot of commitments to donation quilting and to focus on my own projects. It is such a refreshing and long overdue feeling! Double Yeaah!----

Yes, I do see the block in the middle with the mistake--It always amazes me how snapping a photo reveals blocks turned wrong, missing pieces of fabric, similar colors next to each other , and etc.--- yet I can sit and look at a quilt top or the blocks for days on the design wall,  or in this case for weeks or months, and never see the mistakes until I look at the photograph! Thank-you digital age photography!

(see more Design Wall Monday photos with links at Patchwork Times)

Morning Visitors

Sherlock "Sassy" told me the fawns and their mother were outside the bedroom window.

She always comes running to tell me something different is going on. She jumps up on the sofa or footstool and looks out the windows when she is concerned. I was busy quilting on this-----

  I clearly understood I better go look.

They are the cutest babies! Even though they do eat a lot of our flowers. 

Mother is never far away.

Thread

Essential Pro 

I bought two cones of this thread when it first came out about a year ago. Lilac and Sea Mist.  At first I thought it didn't show up very well on the quilt top as the colors are matte, and subdued, but at times, depending on the quilting design, this can be a very good thing! The more I used it, the more I liked the look.  

This came in the mailbox today!  It's polyester, it's thin and it's strong!

  I even had an empty cubbie to store it in. How unusual!

Fall Treasures-Finished!

One of my own projects--finished.  Ahhh, it feels good!
This table runner is "Fall Treasures, from Accents in Designs. It contains 21 

  precut leaves with steam-a-seam already applied to the back of the leaves, and back of the leaf shadows. The leaves are easily moved around until they are steamed into place.

I used some fabrics from my batik stash for the background, batik backing and binding. Then I free motion quilted the runner with a kinda of breezy looking mctavishing.