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This is my "not-finish" for this week.
It's just a top, but this is a big step for this project. It's a UFO, started by a nice man who donated TONS of fabrics, tops, blocks, and projects to our quilt guild.
This is what we started with. The Amazing Colleen from our charity committee handed it off to me (along with other projects that may also get finished eventually). There were nine blocks and some narrow sashing strips. The blocks were about 11 inches square. BTW, that's Lizzy the kitten in the corner of the photo, escaping from being photographed.
After taking off the sashing, I squared up the blocks and added new sashing and borders from this lovely bird print. My friend Debbie C. spotted a whole bolt of it for me at a sale in Madison last January, and it has really come in handy.
Before I hand this one over to one of our volunteer long arm quilters, I will make a backing from the same bird print, and a binding from a slightly darker pink.
Several times I have mentioned my dislike for pink. Working on this quilt made me realize it isn't all pinks, just that very pale, sort of salmon shade. It's not something I would choose for a quilt I'm keeping, but I can work with it for charity stuff.
We had a lovely Independence Day yesterday. It rained in the morning, but cleared up with a nice breeze. We went to the parade, which was the familiar and wonderful small town parade with fire engines, pom pom girls, and the high school marching band. A few politicians were there, but no political floats which was okay with me. July 4 is a day to remember what we have in common.
Later in the day, I started quilting my Constitution quilt. I'm doing a Baptist Fan on my domestic machine, which is challenging, mostly because of marking the lines on both light and dark fabrics.
It's purple month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge! How are your purples coming along? With such a busy week I went right for my easiest blocks, the 8 in. Bow Ties.
My favorite is the ghost print one. The ghosts are reading ghost stories and eating popcorn. There are more fun purple prints now that purple is seen as a Halloween color.
This fish print had a cute selvedge. It says, "Make all your rainy day bright!" I like the sentiment, but I'm not sure about the English used. Thankfully I'm not the grammar police. (I leave that to my eldest daughter lol.)
Look who hopped up into the cabinet! I was cleaning it, and turned my back for a second. Naughty Snicky! I didn't fuss at him, though, just laughed and got the camera. Why do cats always test spaces to see if they can fit?
He definitely fits on Little Guy's lap. They've been hanging out together more, since Buddy has been at wrestling camp the last 3 weeks. Buddy will be here starting Monday, and I know Little Guy is glad. We'll do some fun things together.
One of our daily activities will be picking raspberries in our garden. This is today's haul, the trickle that starts the flood. I love this time of year!
I hope you have a lovely week, doing the things you love to do.
Thanks for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
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