Garden Bonanza

 Midsummer is well upon us and the garden is blooming 

and green.  Our little plot is entirely perennials with a 

tiny touch of annuals in pots. We have a shelter belt 

of pines across the back of the property and the acid 

is just not conducive to many vegetables.  Also,  a carefree

yard when we had four children at home was a must. 

I am going on about this only to show you my 

startling abundance of iris blooms this year. 

We lost 7 trees to time and drought and now 

the iris plants are loving the sun! 

A good bit of composted sheep manure didn't 

hurt either!

Just look at these beauties!

I seem to grow a lot of purple. The shade 

from trees and close suburban living make 

for limited options and a lot of greenery

has purple blooms.

Now back to quilting!!!

Remaking the old favorite that I've gifted, is the current must do! 

The mature wedding is in August so 

I need to get it underway.  

Finding the pattern was a challenge!

Luckily, my BB had a copy and forwarded it

on to get me going!!

I have made a few changes.  

The middle band is still 1 1/2" cut, but

I am upping the block size a 1/2 inch. 

The colors are not as easy to 

identify on the color sheet,

but I always relocate some colors anyway.

I think I may 

digitize the pattern one cold rainy night this summer. 

Meanwhile, I will soldier on and 

started with the month of June's color -blue.

Then dug out a pile of reds to get 

the sections started.  Then moved on to purple.

After that , I did up some browns.

Then I had to jump over to some purple and brown . 

Do you see what is happening here?

The quilt design leads you down a long,

road to other colors so the workroom does end up 

a  mess but is a scrap quilter's dream. 

I ended up with the red and purples.

A great start to this colorful quilt!

Have a great week stitching!

Stay safe  and sew on.

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Once  again, I have missed the wrap up party and 

need to parade my finishes on the next month's party.

Two lovely yellow log cabins were finished up !

These two darlings will probably go off to 

the Northeast Babies within the next few weeks.

The charity has requested some larger quilts.

My goals for July are to:

~quilt up some more of the pile 

~make  significant progress on the triangle strings quilt

~touch on the stack of blocks for the Stashbuster Challenge

Now back to work!

The machine is humming well.  

I have been using a little featherweight 

221 made in the 1950s.  It is fun and fast!

It is also easy to move up to the summer sewing room!

There is a beautiful faceplate on the end of 

my machine making it fun to look at as well as use. 

Off to do a few outside things so 

I can get back to sewing!!!

Here is a floral beauty from my 

walk this morning!

Stay safe and sew on!

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