Well and Star Struck Jr. are finished

Friday saw a lot of well work accomplished.

First there was a lot of digging and moving the dirt to the wrong part of the meadow.

[No photos of that part.]

And then there were pipes to be shoved into the ground and connected to the previous piece of pipe.

And finally the trench was filled again, and the water turned ON.

So that finally we have this lovely addition to our front yard.

The well guy said, "Don't run into that with your lawn mower. Plant some flowers around it."

I finished the DSM quilting and binding of the Star Struck, Jr. yesterday.

It can go in the Guild show for the Small Quilt Auction since it ended at 28" square.

I quilted the sawtooth borders

with the point going off into the surrounding plain border, just to make more of a point about the Points.

And to fill up the big triangles of tropical blue, I quilted congruent triangles.

I had to diminish my usual 2.25" binding to 1.75" so that it turned to just a mere 1/4 inch. I hoped this would spare the points of those outer triangle, but it still shorted a few of them.

Oh well, just another wonky detail!

Sara

Gratitudes:

Not that hard to give Zeke insulin shots while C is gone

Leftover pizza for lunch

Crabapples in bloom

More spring

Can you tell that more of the little bluebells are in view? I know they're not very big. but I am thrilled nonetheless. I was really sure that some underground varmint had dug the bulbs and had them for dinner.

And there is our neighbor's Redbud on his side of the driveway, and our much smaller one, I think a volunteer child of his, on our side of the driveway.

Yesterday I got all four sawtooth borders on the "Son of Star Struck", and I think I am done. Since this will go in the Guild Small Quilt Auction, it can't be much bigger than the 29" square it is right now. Maybe a teensie border of white and then the blue binding.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Tho' I fell off the diet and exercise program for three days, I climbed back on.

Good dinner and conversation with Peter & Lynne

Won opera tickets for three performances next year

More Star Struck

I decided to set the Mini Star Struck "on point". This tropical blue print seemed to be the best thing I had in my stash for this purpose.

Now I am working on another row of HSTs outside those triangles as another sawtooth border. These HSTs were ALSO left over from a Bonnie Hunter project , the regular sized Star Struck.

Sara

Gratitudes:

An exciting modern violin and cello double concerto at GRSO last night

Books I've been waiting for arrived at the library [Louise Erdrich]

Hearing about the Writers of Faith conference from Charlie and Carol

Star Struck, Jr.

I am still working on the mini-Star Struck.

First I figured out haw to stop the design so there were not any partial stars on the edges. This took a bit of hard thinking and then some errors!

But I finally accomplished it.

Then I added a narrow additional white border to set the stars further away from whatever was coming next.

Today I cut down to 1.5" about 50 of the "waste" or "bonus" triangles from Bonnie's projects, and made them into a sawtooth border.

So here is the 14" square I have on my sewing machine NOW.

Sara

Gratitudes:

New batch of bread dough and two loaves baked

Half pound weight loss this AM

Sunshine, though the temperatures are down