Work In Progress

My trip around the world now has two sides of the border on it.  Yea!  I've been less motivated to finish this one but now that the bedroom has been "decorated" and this will go wonderfully with it I'm back to getting it finished. I am using 8" borders as we like the quilt to cover the bed rails. I hope to get the other two sides of the border done today. 

I've also started on the repairs and finishing the second half of the antique quilt I'm doing for friends. The last one I worked on was cut in half by ripping out the stitches.  Now I'm finishing what was left.  The quilt is by no means a perfect example of piecing.  In fact, it really is pretty awful.  But it means something to these folks and they are planning on giving the quilts to other family members.  

I had to remove one of the blocks in order to repair the first quilt.  So I've made another block to place  where I removed the one. (Actually, this is just a general picture of the quilt.)  I've fixed one of the rips in the piecing.  Two more to go.  Then I'll put a border on.  I've got some yellow from the collection of fabric my friends passed on to me so I think I'll use it for the border.  I'll probably continue to use the baptist fan panto for the quilting.  It is appropriate for the time.  Here's the first one as it was coming off the frame. (Did I really not post a picture of the finished quilt?  Do I even have a picture of it??) 

The tree from the last post is down. Sniff.  I'll miss it's beautiful flowers in the spring.  It looks so bare where it was.  You can look at the header to see how big it was! 

All that is left is this stump.  I keep telling myself the tree was rotting from the inside out but I am still sad! 

Today I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced Modern Quilts. 

That's it for today. It's time I head up to the studio to put the other two sides of the border on my TAW.  Heck, I've got a little dress to finish for a little birthday girl too. 

Happy Quilting All! 

Tree Removal

Last week we had the tree I called the squirrel highway removed. It was just too close to the house. Our neighbor had 3 or 4 trees removed at the same time. So it was noisy around here for the morning.

At first they planned to lift it OVER the house. Needless to say I wasn't really thrilled with that as it was 3 stories at the back of the house.

They decided that wasn't quite the right way to go. So they moved that truck to the side of the house.

You can see the orange tape and the blue x on the tree that was removed on the third picture.

One of the guys rode the crane up to the top of the tree to attach it to the crane and cut the top off.

This was a lovely red maple tree so we are having the wood made into lumber. Pat will be making night stands for one of the bedrooms upstairs.

I know that tree top is somewhere in this last picture -- but I'm not sure where! I was sewing away at the time this was done although I did come out to take one of the pictures. Pat took the rest. I need to apologize to the squirrels for taking their tree. It is about time to put the bird feeder back out on the porch. I wonder where the critters will carry their seed to in order to eat it by themselves?

We've also planted 75 daffodil bulbs in hopes that we will have some spring flowers. Supposedly deer won't eat daffodils. Squirrels will, but not deer. Something has been digging up the bulbs but the two I replanted today (in the rain) weren't chewed on. I've still got some gladiola and hyacinth bulbs to plant. Should have done it when the weather was good. Hopefully we'll have some pretty flowers in the spring. I'll keep you posted.

I've been finishing some small projects quilt-wise. Today I realized I'm not exactly sure where the "The Witch Is In" quilt is. I was sewing on the binding on Monday night at guild meeting. I sure hope I didn't leave it there. Although I am sure someone would have grabbed it for me. (just remembered what bag it was in and sure enough -- it was there. Tomorrow I'll finish it. )

Happy Quilting All!