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

Finally sunshine.

What I am working on now.

My latest project including the ongoing 9patch scrappy and the two-block red and white quilts is
this panel of Van Gogh's Irises.  Let's just say that snowball blocks are not my favorite but it was a
kit so.....
This is at the quilters.

This is a Lucy Prior pattern called Soft Corners? from an old Kaffe book I was looking through.  I got a package of star, dot, and solid grunges in Myrtle Beach at the Quilt Gala last weekend.  I'm not sure

that I will like it when finished.  Hopefully after using other colors it will grow on me.

These two quilts were my favorites at the small but nice quilt gala. I don't like English paper piecing or green but I liked the colors of the one above against the white and the placement of the pieces.  The green one was quilted with a fan feather in each of the clam shells and you know how I feel about feathers. I also liked that it had no borders.

Time to get quilting.

Sunny quilting.

Sally

this and that

This is a donation quilt top.  I don't like the layout but it is done.  Now to quilt it.

My back "patio" garden.

A quilt to be of Van Gogh's Irises.  Kit from Heart Song Quilts.

Just love getting lilies for the table.  They usually last about 10 days.

Of course my fav month quilt.

So much going on this week.  Monday BA came to work at aquarium and we ate at the lunch box. We had mah jong at JA smith's house in Goldsboro on Tuesday and nearly everyone was there.  M and I came from Wilmington.

Today I take relatives to the airport for some much needed R&R in the Southwest.  Hope to get by

the nursery to look at bushes to put in my front 1/100th of an acre. 

Tomorrow M and J are coming to go to lunch.  Friday night is a long awaited organ recital by Richard

Rhodes at St. Pauls to replace the one wiped out literally by Hurricane Fran.

It seems as if there is always something going on.  Or off as in the case when I tried to correct this post.  I had to google how to fix the computer when the keyboard stopped working. It suggested i take out the battery from the laptop and let the power drain completely.  I did and it worked. so I am 

trying to correct this post. 

Lily came by and planted my small gardenia and is going to work on sprinkler system.  We will get to the dead grass later.

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Heart month

I have always heard that time flies but it seems to have broken the sound barrier since Christmas.
The move to Wilmington is a mixed bag but what isn't. I really enjoy where I am and it is so wonderful after all these years to be so close to my family that we can get together several times a week if we want to.  There are so many restaurants and so much entertainment to visit if you are
willing to make peace with the traffic.  It is nice to have a department store besides Belk even though
I like to shop there. 
I still have not connected with a guild but hope to do that this month. 

After moving there were several things I could not find among them were some table runners and
quilts to hang.  Finally looked under my sewing table and found them in a plastic container. This was made at a workshop at our guild with teacher Ann Burns.  I just loved the simplistic design and bold colors.  Hope to have a hanging for summer with panel of Van Gogh's Irises and beautiful Stonehenge fabrics from Northcott.

Time to get ready for church.  The weather has been really crazy and is in a cooler mode.  Not too bad for mid February.  Birthdays are nice but hard to believe I have lived this long.

Hearts to you and prayers for C.

Sally

Snow, bells, trees.....

I can hardly believe I have not posted since October.  So much going on it is difficult to find the
time to sit and think.
The house I lived in for 38 years finally closed in November. Then so much has been going on: Thanksgiving visiting family, getting my dogs medical history caught up, getting a tree to put up, decorating, being grateful we were not visited by the snow fairy, meeting friends in Sneads Ferry for mah jong, buying and wrapping presents, checking out the David Yurman trunk show with no trunk, and watching Hallmark Christmas movies.

This is Peter and Lily's new puppy.  He is an aussi-doodle.  Full of energy but precious.

This is Dallas, my brother-in-law's grandson.  He really enjoyed the snow.

My Straits of Mackinac quilt from Bonnie Hunter's pattern.

I am meeting friends halfway today for lunch before they head to Colorado to be with daughter and family. I have to finish putting together a bar-chair I did not know I would have to do and finish Christmas shopping.  I'm thinking green.

Sure signs of Christmas

Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Joyous quilting

S

Crazy christmas trees

This is a quilt made by one of the newest members of the goldsboro quilt guild, Robin Greer. I just love the collection and the wonky trees. It is really a happy quilt.

Came home today in the rain with my car full of last items from my house in Rosewood. I looked like the Clampetts. Just needed grandma on the roof. Or maybe I'm getting that mixed up with Christmas vacation.
Anyway glad to be home.
Rainy quilting.