It didn't take me very long to get behind ... something happened last week, and the two quilts I was supposed to do did not get done! So this week I jammed and got four quilts done ... hurray! Feels really good to get them all done and check them off my quilt calendar ... now I'm back on track ... yay!!
One of the quilts I did earlier in the week was a queen size churn dash quilt. I've watched my friend work on this for a while, and when she gave it to me to quilt I was really excited. She wanted a really tight stipple on the quilt, and I was a littile concerned about that since the quilt was so big. Usually I would do a medium size stipple ... she was right on! I love the tight stipple and it looks great (if I do say so myself!).
I used an Omni thread in the top and bobbin ... the color is Goose ... I love the name!
Didn't she do a good job? It's so striking in just the couple of colors. It was really fun to quilt!
She's lucky because I almost kept it for my bed! I liked it so much ... heh, heh.
I wanted to show the back of the quilt so you can see how she pieced it ... she just used what she had. A lot of people really want the back of their quilts to look nice, and to them that means a beautiful piece of fabric. I happen to love the look of a pieced back ... the scrappier the better ... I've seen some backs that are geometrically beautiful, but I never can put that much planning into my backs. I do prefer to use whatever I have and in addition to it looking really cool, I feel virtuous in using up all my leftovers!
I loved this center strip ... I'm not sure what it started out as, but I thought it looked really neat!
While I was out on the back patio this evening enjoying the end of the day and the quilt I just finished, I went inside to get something, and then when I came back outside, this hawk was sitting on the fence about 20 yards away from me ...
It's hard to see him as I didn't want to get any closer and scare him away. He must have sat there looking around for about 15 minutes.
I was wondering if he was looking at Sophie and wondering if he had any chance of scooping her up! See him way over there on the right? I don't even think Sophie paid any attention to him or knew he was there. More likely he was looking for the baby bunnies that have been out and about in the neighbor's yard the last week or so ... they are so cute! I hope they watch out for the hawks!
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