Watching others work

Well Lily came by yesterday to make my front bed beautiful.  I had gotten some plants on friday and
she came by to put them in, get up those pesky leaves, put in mulch, fix the water spigot and the sprinkler system.  That girl can do anything in record time. Some ladies came walking by and
I was quick to say that Lily was my niece in case they wanted to hire her.  Her days are so full
and I am so grateful for her work in my yard.

I finished these tops last week.  The top one is animal fabrics with star points from blenders we

got on a fabric buying trip with the quilters from Sneads Ferry.  The bottom one is to use all those

wonderful grunges I have stored up.  It is a Lucy Prior pattern.  I reduced the number of boxes to make it smaller but the ratio of sizes for the boxes is crazy.  6 inches finished for the large ones and three and one half for the smaller ones.  Hence the inner border of one-quarter inch!!!I made so many

of the boxes that I have made a modern quilt out of the left overs. We will see what Heather does 

with it!!

This is not the final setting but close.

Well Mr. C slept until 8:45 this am and the rain started at 8:46 so we got wet.  He is sleeping on the

floor where ever he wants at night so he won't fall off the bed.  

Time to work on the 9patch wonder quilt.  Only 15 more small blocks to go.

Rainy quilting.

Sally

New Bed

Just loving this fine weather.  I even sat out back late this morning as the breeze is cut off by
privacy fencing and the sun was overhead.  Wonderful way to get my Vitamin D. 
I cannot finish until the guarantee of frost free night.  So the big blue pots will remain empty.
Lily put in two minature gardenias, one regular sized gardenia and a blue hydrangea as well as dug up roots and two nearly dead bushes by the mail box.

She wants to sod the front when it is warm enough and we(she) will fill in the spaces with hostas 

and lilies. She also wants to make the black flower box in the back to hold soil and flowers.  I am 

excited.  Love the big blue pots.  

Yesterday I decided to get the last red, white, blue and brown donation quilted.  It has been a long

time since I quilted and I was rusty.  I wanted to do feathers but realized after some practice they are

not ready for prime time so I stippled the rows and did leaf/vines in the sashings.  The outer border is

just straight lines.  Now for the binding and handwork.  Hope i still have a label from Guild.

I have begun binge watching Vera on Brit Box/Amazon Prime.  It is really good but it is a good thing

to have Closed Captions because of the heavy accent.  It is not uplifting but so well done.  I can only take so many episodes at a time.  I think there are 9seasons.

In checking on my favorite "Endeavour" series I see that Shaun Evans is sporting a mustache in this 

seasons episodes to start airing in England in April I think.

Also want to check out the new season of "Shetland."

So much tv so little time.

Spring quilting

Sally