slow motion

 Well I have it pieced this little doll quilt and I have it quilted about 3/4's I have slowed down a little because of all the silly quilting I decided to do...never ever keep it simple Deb!!

I love the beautiful border fabric I got from Sew Sisters  I bought it without an idea until I came home and saw why.

 Teddy and I sat on the porch for a little while one day I wasn't able to go much further so we had a relaxing time of just enjoying the garden and stitching.

I have not been able to add any more blocks for Let's be Friends blocks by Border Creek Station but have 19 on the board now. I will be sewing more this weekend! why you ask? because it is a long weekend and I am not working! this does not happen very often

Hopefully it is a little cooler weather with no humidity so that I can be out in the garden I finally moved the Yucca from the driveway I think I am safe to put a new plant in the hole that was home for the yellow jackets.

Hope you all are safe and just do what you like to do best.

big wall, little wall

Well as you can see I am getting a wee bit of stitching in. The left is the sew along with Border Creek station Let's Be Friends (one of the sew alongs), yes I am behind but the point is to go slow and enjoy. I am a little slower, my goal is a queen.

I am having fun picking some fabrics from my stash, as well as, a kit that I had to get from Quilt Junction  of selected colored fabrics.

The right is my doll quilt that I am making for a swap. As you can see there can never be enough tools. LOL This is from the mag Miniature Quilts I think we can call it archaic, but still is my reference guide to small quilts. This is a swap that is being run on Instagram.  I am not even gonna tell you how small these pieces are but they are small and now I can work with the borders wait till you see what happens.

It is stunningly, gorgeous outside, the weather is perfect, it will be hard when the season changes I am not sure where the months have gone. Soon this look will be chin down to the paws because it will be too cold!

do what you do best to enjoy your day! 

Flowers, bugs and updates oh my!

 this guy just gives me the biggest heart.,,EVER!

How can I refuse that look!

 this is in front of the house I am going to get a mix of flowers next year too. love how they are coming around.


The spiral tree that they are on was found on the road side waiting for the garbage man I carried it home when I had the 2 dogs they were very patient as I had to stop every once in a while to re-position

This is sedum my husband does not like this because when it blooms it tells him fall is approaching. I am the opposite it tells me quilt season is upon us!

I am not sure if I posted about this sew a long, okay yes it is the same block but it is free and it is fun to sew with others and see the different fabrics everyone is achieving with it.

Border Creek Station will be able to give you all the details. these blocks are only 8 inches so any fabric is going to look amazing I actually have put 4 more on the wall and cut a whole bunch more!

More garden fun in my front yard. All these are just my front yard! the back yard will be next this is low maintenance with hosta's and hydrangeas

As you can see there is a hole here, we had to get exterminators to come in and remove a yellow jacket nest that was under my Yucca plant. It is now road kill in the middle of my driveway. We give it a wide birth because I want to make sure everything is gone from it. I only found out they were there because of disturbing the nest and getting stung a few times.

This was 2 weeks ago Sat and I still have some skin discoloration where they done havoc on me.

On the side note I can go to Vandermeer's and see what I can get to replace that hole in memory of those vicious yellow jackets.

I posted about this quilt a couple of weeks ago. I am posting it again because I am going to change the border I am not happy with it. I am going to make a thin frame of the brown around it. I saw a quilt that was finished with the churn dash block as the boarder all the way around and I loved it. so this is what I am going to do. Lets see if that works using up more of those scraps.

August already! What!!

 Look at this little sweet heart he makes my husband and I so happy he really is a joyful sole I am BBQ'n some chicken so I have peaked his interest

 I am still catching up on some of the stuff I have been working on this was a challenge by Kathleen Tracy for one of the months and I had some blue package of fabric from Cotton Harvest Quilt store. They have been at the quilt shows and oh my I could just buy everything they have!

I love all the quilts in this book and thought this would be the perfect pattern for my wee stash see how different the coloration makes the quilt?

 I still have enough to create something else out of one Kathleen's books you will have to google her there is so much to share.

 Okay do you see this on the left? is it not the most adorable pin cushion? not only did she make the doggy but also the mat for the puppy to lay on and a bone to chew on, it also had scissors this was a swap of pincushions I was in and this is the treat I got back I love it so much!

 I also have been slowly stitching the dutch treat blocks with Meerkat shweshwe fabrics. The designer for this gorgeous quilt will be at our next sit and sew and there are still openings, you can bring any show and share plus any hand work that you are working on...even binding! LOL

My next fetish is gold fish I could live on these!

This was a wee applique quilt I made, the pattern was from the mini quilt mags that used to be published and then I used it to show people how to applique with the no melt templar method. This sweet thing was also hand quilted...which reminds me I have to work on another wee quilt that is going to another quilter...will follow up with some pictures later

Stay cool summer is whizzing by!