Some sewing, lots of rain

 I pulled out this project I started years ago. It was originally a block-of-the-month quilt when I was a member of the Mt Washington Quilting Bees.

It was difficult for me and I fell behind quickly and then gave up with only eight blocks made. There would have been twenty four to make the finished quilt.

I have taken the blocks out once or twice since then, and decided I could just make a throw sized quilt with this arrangement. I cut out the side triangles.

Now I need to make more of the sashing and fill in the corners too. Trying to decide what fabric I should use.

I finished the quilting and binding on this small donation quilt...put together from blocks made by the Crazy Quilters group.

The back is white flannel. It's been difficult to keep it from getting covered with black cat hair while it's been at my house, but I know the flannel will make a nice cozy lap quilt for a nursing home resident.

At this month's Crazy Quilters meeting I decided to join in with the Sew Busy group and do the project they were working on - a log cabin mug rug.

Cute and colorful finished designs!  Except mine, I didn't get finished.

It's the top center one with the black cat fabric.  I'll finish at home and may make it a bit bigger too.

I wanted to show you this quilt that my friend, Linda (on the left) brought in for show-and-tell.

The amazing thing about it is that she made it all from dance costumes!

Working with those silky, lacy, sequined fabrics had to have been quite a challenge!

It will be so special to the young lady whose years of dance costumes are represented here. Quite a keepsake!

I finished this throw sized quilt that's not exactly a quilt.  The center is just a section of Laurel Burch fabric that looks like it's pieced.

I liked the colors and the cat images so much that I just sewed the blue border around it and quilted it.

On the back I used this IKEA fabric that's another favorite of mine. The yellows are so happy looking.

It's actually more of a canvas type upholstery fabric but it washed up fine in the washing machine and was easy to quilt through. It made the quilt nice and weighty.

I added binding around the edge so is is really a quilt...just without all the block piecing.

Here's a couple of close ups.  So much to look at in that fabric!

We finally got that rain we missed out on in April. 

Days of rain with heavy downpour sometimes.

See that tallest tree branch in the middle of the photo below?

That's a hawk sitting there through the pouring rain.

Here he is zoomed in a bit.

Looks like he would be miserable but I guess it's a good viewpoint to watch for prey in any weather.