Baseball boy quilt

I found a couple of "boy" fabrics at Joann's last week-- two baseball fabrics and two soccer fabrics.  Currently I am making an easy strip quilt using the baseball fabrics and a few others from the stash.  I am planning to use up the theme fabrics by making it more of a rectangle, using the QAYG method, and this is going quickly.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Sunny day, temperature not too high....SUMMERTIME!
Managed to get half of the labyrinth mowed
Juicy steak and corn on the cob for dinner, thanks Charlie!

16-patch finished

Front with diagonal quilting.

Back butterflies and a few scraps.

Folded up, showing binding.

Sara

Gratitudes:

"I Am the Bread of Life" sung as communion hymn this morning
Free books for my Kindle
Joe Pye Weed ready to bloom

16-patch getting binding

Not quite finished with the binding because I decided to add a border first.  This photo shows the backing of blue with butterflies, then the back border of pale blue, and then the striped binding being applied.

And here's a part of the front with the border of butterfly fabric.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Sleeping late because today was a "free" day
Exciting thunderstorm this afternoon
Hamburgers with fresh tomato and cucumber for salad

Charlie's birthday

Lunch at Marco's with Ray and Dianne.  We had lobster rolls and thought about previous trips to Maine.

Dinner provided by Peter and Lynne at Meijer Gardens as we awaited an outdoor concert by Garrison Keillor.

And this shows you that he is really a "radio" man.  He frequently turned his back to the audience and kept singing or talking.  He doesn't "play" to the crowd except during the "News from Lake Wobegon".

We had a VERY enjoyable time on a lovely evening of good weather.

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Earlier I finished the quilting on the 16-patch quilt made from a Moda Layer Cake.

Tomorrow:  the binding.

Sara

Gratitudes:

THREE meals out!

Starting a walking program: today 17 minutes

Day old cherry tart from a new bakery

Wordless Wednesday

Second "boy baby" quilt finished

Out of the dryer just after dinner, this strip quilt is going to the young son of a friend from Holy Cross Church.  Here's a close-up of the vehicles and the "Beep Beep" fabric:

The backing is numerical flannel with the "triangle corner" label method.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Lengthy breakfast with Peter on his 43rd birthday

Two more Louise Penny mysteries from the library

BLTs and fresh corn for dinner, Hooray for summer!

Not" baby" cucumbers

We forgot about the cucumbers, under all their leaves.  Yesterday I found three, only one the regular size.  And then Charlie found five more of the huge ones, growing on the outside of the garden fence.  Luckily they taste okay, we just have to cut out all the seeds in the middle.

Then we remembered to look at the beans.  They were pretty large too.  We are going to try cooking them tonight to see if they are edible.  

And we are going to try this one Serrano pepper to see how hot it is.  We are not familiar with these, and there are several more.  This is the one pepper plant that is doing well.

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The first Boy Baby quilt is done; bordered, quilted, and bound.

Somehow I got the back on straight enough to include the whole map.  Next time I'm going to add some borders on the backing so that I don't have to finagle around with it so much!

Sara

Gratitudes:

Lots of cucumber for my lunch salads

Several people who will take two huge cucumbers off my hands!

Leftover gaspacho for supper tonight

Back to Boy Baby quilts

Found this cute fabric for a baby quilt backing, at JoAnn's, so I bought two.

And here's the front it is now quilted onto:

This was made from a couple charm packs.
I have the binding made, and may even get it applied tonight.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Finally got some plants in the ground that had been waiting for cooler weather
May have a place to stay in Florida next March, near the Cardinals spring training
Color in the sky at sunset, when it looked like none was coming

Wordless Wednesday

9:20 pm

Blocks done

Today I finished making all the pieces of the layer cake into blocks.

However I lost one of them!  Where is that 40th block? Hmm.  Must be time to clean up the sewing room.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Lots of blueberries for breakfast
Sitting on the porch with a breeze and a view of the lake
Enjoying a new to me mystery writer,  Louise Penny