More construction is underway in the front yard. Hubby is digging a trench in order to inlay the cement chunks we have accumulated into a pathway. As you can see, the little pond is finished and the fishes are doing well and growing. They have survived a few exploratory attacks by the local raccoon gang - the pond advice we received was sound! I've been keeping my worker company, weeding the flower bed while he digs.
Indoors, I have been quilting. I finished a twin-sized quilt which I began last year. It took me a bit because I embroidered 12 of the blocks. It is a memory quilt, with blocks made from our boys' outgrown pajamas, blankies, our kitchen curtains, and lots of family odds and ends. By request I kept it "unisex" with not too much girly pink stuff. I backed it with blue flannel, and I tied it with embroidery floss at the corners and middles of each square side. The binding is pieced out of the extra 2" squares I cut.
The embroidery is kind of random. Images I liked online, drawings I made up myself. The sunflower is from a marker drawing that I did a few years ago.
4 comments:
Wow, that looks like quite the garden project! And the quilt is beautiful, of course. :)
It is beautiful. I hope you signed it. Someday it will be a family keepsake and you should have your name on it somewhere and the date. Love you, Mom
You're amazing!
oh, this is fantastic. the original embroidery really adds another creative dimension to what is already a work of art. i followed you here from apron thrift girl to look at your finds, but found myself wandering through your old sewing and yarn craft posts instead :P thanks for sharing some interesting projects.
~ ana
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