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