Hmmm.. I was cleaning up pics in picassa and Ooooppps...that deleted pics on the blog...I didn't realise that would happen.  I sort of wondered if it would, so I checked and good enough!  removed from the blog ....I will have to redo them and NOT clean up again!  lol  It's funny that happened because picassa was an online album and I used pics from my computer.  I don't enen know for sure how I accessed picassa!

Oh...my... I deleted a lot of pics...some I replaced ..others, not ...silly ..silly me!  I don't have the time to fix it all..so I will just leave it as it is, for now.  I have to read each blog and remember what pic was where and redo them..
Well, I know not to do THAT again!

all done

On a sewing note.... I have the binding all finished on the pink quilt.  Sewed some outside by the pool while Thing Two swam.  I think she has an earache now...sewed the almost all the rest in front of the TV.  Finished it up the next day.  It is supposed to rain for the next few days.  I certainly hope so..It is very, very dry.  With no snow to speak of this year and no rain..we are in drought!  I am making sure I water the large trees on our property, and especially the tree on the boulevard.

I hope to finish quilting the dolly quilt and have it bound before the June meeting.

Then I will not have to worry about that anymore!

So I have now sewn the binding on the pink quilt, it's all set to hand sew the binding.  I will sit outside and do that sometime this week or weekend and it will be ready to give back to outreach at the end of June.

I was certainly on a roll!  I had another quilt that I took from outreach that I decided to start quilting.

The maker of this quilt is Dorothy Baker...She made it and donated it to guild outreach.   I BELIEVE she designed this quilt as a pattern for sale on her blog....she has it in her pics of patterns..

http://dorothybakerdesigns.blogspot.ca/
It's a beautiful, little girls's quilt....all appliqued (by machine) and believe me ...you can NOT see the stitching!  So cute!

No one wanted to take this quilt to quilt it...they didn't want to spoil it!   I guess I was brave..lol..But the same thing...I was reluctant to work on it, because I didn't want to spoil it too!  So now I am working on it..I certainly hope I do it justice.

Here is a peek...not quite finished yet!

Almost finished the garden....just waiting for the huge plant of poppies to finish blooming so that I can plant there.  Then my hands will stay clean...and my feet!  I garden barefoot, walking in the garden, my toenails get full of dirt and my feet look terrible.  But I don't like working in shoes, sandals are worse..my feet sweat a lot so when I'm wearing something like crocs, my feet are wet, mix that with dirt and I get mud.  I hate having dirt in my foorwear. Boots are just too hot!  I would rather be barefoot!.  So, everytime I work in the garden, after I have to give myself a pedicure.
But now I can more or less enjoy the flowers now.
And sew with clean hands!

So, now my hands and feet are clean, I decided to quilt this little charity quilt for guild outreach. It's been hanging around for a while, I need to move things OUT.   I only quilted it, someone else actually made it...and now I need to bind it.

It took me only an evening to quilt it.  Probably another evening to handsew the binding.

I used a pink thread on the back and a white cotton embroidery thread on the top. 

 Actually, I used 3 different threads on the back.  It was amazing the difference between them.  Two threads pulled to the top and the last one didn't...it laid between the layers as it is supposed to do.  I was using up dribs and drabs of spools of thread that were just taking up room...not enough to do anything with.

Off to the dentist today.  I wonder how much that will cost?

I finished the little quilt for my sister..I think she will like it.. A trillum, Ontario's provincial flower.  I didn't put a sleeve on it.  She can use it on a table if she likes

   The machine was acting up when I was quilting it.  I don't know if it was the heat..(it WAS hot in here) or what, but I could hear the belt slipping. If it continues, I will have to take it in for service. I haven't used this machine for anything other than piecing, so just short bursts of sewing.

I went out the other day to buy some muslin. ...can you believe I couldn't get any!?

I wanted some for the girls to paint or dye, or maybe embroider...what ever they want to do and then cut it up and sew a quilt again.. I couldn't find just plain white either....hmmm.

Gonna hafta go to Hamilton to find what I want. 

Instead of fabric, I got a new ruler.  One of those fancy, dancy, no glare, no slip, sharpen your rotary cutter blade all at the same time, rulers.  Didn't need it, but I wanted the ruler that sharpens my cutter.  I am tired of dull blades. Plus, they are really expensive.

I have been working in my garden.  I am always slow to start and glad to get it done.  My back is sore and continually spasms..my feet are sore, my knee hurts and my hands are sore and my fingers are stiff.  But I am almost done.  Like I said ...bird seed makes for quite a few weeds.

I noticed today that there are two chipmunks that are coming to the feeders...  from two different sides of the yard!   And the bigger chipmunk doesn't want the smaller one to eat at his feeder.  chases the other away!  As I worked I kept an eye on them,  when the smaller one took all his seeds, I set out more for it.  I know they take away the seeds and hide store them in their burrows for winter.

I have been making some time to sew.  But I haven't been working on my FWSQ, hope to get back to that soon.

  I have been working on a special project.

My sister is coming for a visit from the US of A soon and I decided to make her a little gifty...SHHH!...Don't tell her her...

Here is a sneak peak!
Just a little bit of quilting left to do...
I hope she likes it!

Hmmm...gremlins again today..
Here is the first pic I wanted on todays blog...

the poppies...
still growing...blooming strong...must be a hundred buds on these two plants

NB...this is not the original pic posted...but a beautiful painting by Jacqueline Mia Monroe

Spring is sure early is year, summer is pushing it...it has been and is forecast to be hot and smoggy.  Some of my garden is doing great...the weeds are thriving..hahaha..some of my perennials are way ahead ...just look at this poppy...actually two different plants grown together.  I think I need to separate them.  One is orange and has a flower the size of a dinner plate...yes it's huge!  The other is peachy pink and a smaller flower.  Both plants are loaded with buds.  I have numerous other poppies growing in  my small yard..all from seeds of these two.....except for one plant...that gives great promise and never delivers.  The plant has always produced huge buds, then they don't open...they become misshapen and then just fall off.  I think it time to replace that one plant. 

I have a lot of daisies in my garden..rudbeckia(yellow and rust), echinacea (pink), coreopsis(yellow) and they all tend to take over.  Not that I mind...but eventually I have to tear them out... I'd rather be sewing.