Guild, rain, workshops

I am not sure but I think this must be the coolest June I can remember.  But then again I don't remember last week.  I just know it was full of things to do and places to be.  I just love being retired so I can meet friends for lunch or sleep past 6:30am or paint watercolors with friends or sew all day.

One thing I was able to finish was the quilt for my neighbor's daughter P who just graduated college.
The colors: purple and gold for Rosewood High School and green and gold for her college were at first a problem.  Then I found the Bonnie Hunter pattern "Texas Tumbleweeds" which worked great and I could use my favorite batiks which would include some turquoise and oranges for pop.
It was a present from her family, me and Cecil whose picture is on the label.

This charming young lady is a Brice's Creek inhabitant who visits anyone who has bread.  C called her Lulu Bell.

Another donation quilt from fabric in the guild stash.  It is hard to beat red, white, and blue and a disappearing 9 patch.

This monster 98"x106" is called Colors of My World

and was quilted by Heather Tighe of Hampstead, NC.  I told P I would give it back to her after show and tell.  I just love how the two blocks: Jacob's ladder and one I call Martian star,  work to make the quilt interesting.

I am a little frazzled.  Such fun with Augusta Cole and I enjoyed dinner with her and three other guild members at OG on Friday night.  Just love my "turquoise baby."

The rain has many benefits not the least of which is producing beautiful flowers without having to water.  Nobody waters like God.  This is the first bloom from a Rose of Sharon I planted last year.

My mother used to have one and I have always wanted to plant one.  I remember her carrying around her quart jar of kerosene and knocking off the Japanese beetles into it so they could drown.  She was such a sweet lady.

Have to go and finish the July calendar hanging before tomorrow morning.

Firecracker quilting.

Sally

Soggy June

I was so excited to go out this morning and pick my first gardenias.  I wait every June to see and smell them.  Most of the bushes in my yard are from ones I have rooted in water then in pots on my kitchen window sill for two years and then planted in the rainy spring. I have two in pots on the deck I need to get into the ground now.  Happy day.  Just put out a day lily from C and some purple basil plants.  This rainy weather will help them get established.  Put some cosmos seedlings into the ground also.
Hope they make it.  Love to see them blooming.

 

 

This next picture is the June block for the Stitchers Garden class P and I are taking.  Love the Kaffe flame pattern.  First time for couching.  Not such a great job.  Where is the magic marker?

I just finished the binding on a 98x106 quilt and a wounded warrior quilt to send to Kandahar.  Thanks to AB for coordinating that effort for the guild.  It was such an easy pattern with half square triangles from 6 inch squares we had in the guild stash.  It was fun to see how many ways to turn them.

I think I will do the next one with disappearing 9 patch.  It is so forgiving and versatile

Have to stop and get to work on the extra block for our "Stitcher's Garden"class today at The Thistle Bee.  I love picking out the fabrics but drawing out the pieces on H & B is a pain.  I think this is the half way month.  Not sure how it will be put together. 

And for the last picture this is a quilt top I just finished.  We call it Laura's quilt because she was the one to show us the very simple one block pattern.  Just love the secondary  pattern the whites make.  It came out a little large measuring about 75x59 but I really like it.  It helped me use some but not a lot of my reproduction fabrics.

 

Will have to close. There is a line of storms approaching Raleigh and want to be off computer.  Quilted at C's today and got a start on the 396 4-patches for the confetti quilt.  What is sad is that I have a box full of batik strips and have not made a dent in it.  We are going to the show in Wilminton tomorrow.  I hope to fins a dark batik either blue or black for the outer border.  Lots of sewing to do.

Steamy quilting

Sally