Hummers

Autumn is coming.  Some trees in the Berkshires have begun to turn their leaves. 

My hummer visitors have been fewer this week.  I have two hummer feeders that have been busy since they were put out in the middle of April.  That is when our first hummers usually show up.  The last few weeks I have been having families come to the feeders.  As many as a dozen will feed together.  I have two feeders placed about 10 feet apart in the garden around the deck. 

Notice the ant moats, the red thing hanging above the feeders.  I usually have to add water to the moats several times a week.  This summer we have had so much rain that I only filled them up when I first set out the feeders.  Mother Nature has kept them filled all summer.  They really work well to keep the ants away from the sugar water.

The Tuna Quilters met this week, and we had 'show and tell'.  They were kind and held up Heartfelt so that I could take a better picture.  It was such a sunny Monday that we took the picture under the tree.  If you look at any of the HST borders, on the left, you can see when the HSTs change direction.  That was done so that the HST would make the border corners be a square.  

We have exciting news.  Exciting for my husband and I, along with the rest of the family.  We are expecting our first Grandchild in November.  Our youngest and her husband gave us the news in May.  They know who it will be but are not letting anyone else know.  We have been told that the baby will let us know when it is born.

So, I made this Peter Rabbit quilt.  A kit that I picked up during a Shop Hop in 2013.  Peter Rabbit is one of my favorite book series, along with Winnie the Pooh.  This is a panel so all I had to do was add two borders.  Really a fast make.  This one I will machine quilt.

Then I made this quilt.  Our youngest is a geologist and loves dinosaurs.  She had found this dinosaur material in 2022.  This quilt is Feathered to a T by Mary Etherington and Connie Tesene and found in their Fresh Start Quilts book.  A dinosaur edge to edge machine quilt pattern has been found.  Now we need to see who will quilt it.

I hope that you all have a wonderful day and enjoy your threads.  Linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.

 

Something

Mother Nature has been a better gardener this year than I.  I was looking out the kitchen window and saw yellow in a raised bed area that I had given up on.  There is this two-foot sunflower growing.  The birds or squirrels must have planted it.  They are the better gardeners this year for sure.  

I have completed three flimsies this week.  I can only show you Heartfelt at this time.  The Tuna Quilters are meeting tomorrow, and I want them to meet the other two first.  Their pictures will be shown next week.  

I can't believe what a procrastinator I am.  All I had to do was add the final border on this one.  I am so glad that it is a flimsy. Now to decide if it will be hand or machine quilted.  This is the largest quilt I have ever pieced.  It is draped over a queen size bed with lots of hang over.  WOW.  Heartfelt is one of my Dirty Dozen.

Here is a picture of the borders.  

One of the berries has been finished.  The butterfly represents selflessness and the dog is loyalty.  I am trying to decide if I can stitch the other one on the other end of the linen.  The berrry shape will be drawn out and then I think, hard. 

 

Enjoy your threads today.  We are to have more rain, thunderstorms.  I guess I know where I will be.  Linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.

 

August

A week has gone by, and I have been working with threads and material, but it doesn't look like very much.  (I try to keep a written record of what I have been working on, and the hours, to show myself I really haven't been lazy.)  I have spent hours outdoors working on the gardens as we haven't had much rain this week.  Only rained twice and it was in the afternoon.  The gardens are a bit of a loss this year.  They are green, gorgeous weeds, too much rain.

Here is the beginning of a kids quilt.  Dinosaur material and 216 2-inch HST.  I have six of the nine blocks done.  I am needing to piece this in parts, so I really don't mess up.  So far it is working. 

I have joined Jo's Country Junction's stitch along.  It is the Quaker Wisdom Berries by Erica Michaels.

I just set up the frame, made a working copy of the pattern, and divided the threads.  This will be my new slow stitching for a bit.

In the land of the Dirty Dozen found at Country Threads Chicken Scratch by Mary Etherington, the number for August is 10.  In that space on my list only embroidery was there.  The sheep blankets have now been placed there.  The sheep blocks need to continue getting joined together.  Onward.

Have a wonderful day with your threads.  Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.  See you next week.