Monday, July 21, 2025

County extension class, donation quilt, ragweed

 

I hadn't been to any of the County extension classes in a while. My friend, Izzy, said she was signing up for this cut flower gardening class so I signed up too.



It was a fun class, geared mostly for those who like to raise flowers to cut and arrange in bouquets. That's something I don't do very often (I don't seem to have flower arranging skills).


First we had handout information and a lesson about types of flowers to grow and also a talk by a lady who has a green house and sells flowers at the farmers  market.

Later we could all choose cut flowers from a long row of vases and make an arrangement to take home. 
I just put together an all yellow bouquet. We also all got to choose a few seed packets.

An enjoyable way to learn a bit and socialize too.




Members of my quilting group finished sewing our donation quilt top together. Then we layered it with batting and backing and pin basted it.

I brought it home to do the quilting.



I finished that...so went ahead and attached the binding and sewed it down.

Ta Da!





Once it is together and finished it looks better than I expected.



Puss wasn't so bent on wanting to lay on this one as I quilted so things went much more smoothly than the last quilt I worked on.



Here's the back. The quilt is long and narrow so that it can be used with a wheelchair, since our plan is to donate it to a nursing home resident.



Our group is now making plans for what quilt design to make for donation in 2026.

I haven't made any soup lately but I did make a big pan of green beans and onions with bratwurst.




For some reason I thought the plant pictured below was a passion flower. It had come up on it's own between those stepping stones.

It grew fast !


I mentioned to the Sasquatch that it seemed slow to put out any blooms.

He looked it up on his phone real quick and told me I'm growing a big ragweed!

Oh for Pete's sakes! I sure had it confused.

It's not a bad looking plant but I asked the Sasquatch to go ahead and pull it

up.

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