I finished quilting a friend’s quilt.  The front was very busy, and I knew quilting wouldn’t show much on the front.  She just wanted it quilted and done.  So I reached for “Feather Feather” by Kathie James.   Here is a shot of the back:

Two rows of feathers = 13.5″.  It makes for a nice soft drape to the quilt.  Here’s what’s on my machine today.  It’s another customer quilt, and I like what I’m doing in the center blocks.  Just loops, leaves, curls, and flowers.  Another case of, do whatever you think is best, I just need it done.  About an hour left to do on it this morning.

 I don’t think I’ve shown this quilt before.  This hangs over the staircase in our house.  I made this quilt in a class several years ago with Celine Perkins (Perkins Drygoods) before she was quite so busy with her own designs.  (She is a wonderful teacher, by the way, and try her patterns!  They are fun, easy, and her instructions are impeccable.) 

The pattern is a Kaye England design, and I really enjoyed making it.  The quilting doesn’t show, but I decided to do sampler quilting, and each block is quilted differently.  There was even a block of the dreaded applique’, but it was worth it as it is the focus of the quilt.  My color scheme was that each block would have a black print, a cream print, and a color, and they are civil war reproduction fabrics.

I like it so well, I turned it on its side and it is today’s puzzle in a Tetris cut:

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Considering we live in the city, I consider us pretty fortunate to be able to look out at a pond, trees, birds, squirrels, rabbits, hedgehogs, and other years we’ve seen deer and a fox.  You just never know what you’re going to see. 

I know our pond isn’t very deep, because in dry summers I’ve seen ducks stand up in the middle of it.  However, it may be a lot deeper than I thought, as here’s what I saw this afternoon:

Does he remind you of anybody famous?

The other birds weren’t cooperating at all today, and so here are a couple of pictures of the tree the birds are SUPPOSED to be in!  They must not have gotten the memo that they are a main source of my entertainment.

This tree is prettiest right now.  Another day or two, the blossoms will be totally open and appear all white.  I love this pretty rose color that they have now.  I just don’t understand why all the birds don’t want to hang out in this particular tree!  I know I would.

Can’t show any quilting pictures right now.  In the works is a customer quilt, our guild’s challenge for this month, our Wednesday group (DayStitchers) started doing our box exchange again this month, and another challenge quilt for a June quilt show.  So much secrecy!

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This week I quilted Julie G’s sock monkey quilt.  It’s her first big quilt, and she did a great job on it.  I quilted the Popcorn pantograph design on it, but stopped short of the sock monkey.  He seemed to need some special treatment, so I quilted around him.  (The quilt is cut off in the photo at the top — the rows below the monkey are repeated above the monkey.)