Quilt Sandwiches

 
Mmmmm, food. I think I've gained over 10 pounds in the last month. Unfortunately most of it is boredom eating. I don't know who keeps buying junk food at the grocery store. Lucky for me quilt sandwiches are not fattening.

Two of the quilts I showed last week were already pinned. I got three more pin based before I ran out of pins. After I quilt the Lincoln's Sampler I should have enough pins to pin the last three.

I did get the sampler quilt marked with the Baptist Fan template. That took a bit to do as the light fabric was marked with a blue water soluble pen and the dark fabrics with a white chalk. Sure hope in all comes out. I have a feeling this is going to take a while to quilt.

I finished making all the HST for the General Jack quilt. I didn't mark the smaller squares. I used this tape as a guide...sew a bunch on one side then flip the squares and sew down the other side...one long chain. I had to tape down the yellow tape as it kept lifting up.

Now I have 524 HSTs to press and square up. I'll probably do a little bit every night when I need to take a break from quilting all the fans - maybe they should be my goal for this week.

I also spent some time working outside. Tested the sprinklers, raked up all the oak leaves from the side yard, and pulled up a bazillion weeds and small oak saplings that were trying to grow every where.

I'm seeing new flowers and seasonal plants spring up every day. The azaleas are in full bloom.

I have a dogwood tree:

 The blooms are such a pretty pink.

The hosta's are shooting up:

Hehehehe...they look like horns.

I saw my first deer yesterday morning across the street. If it eats my roses before they bloom I might have to get my deer hunting license (not really). Luckily they don't seem to like pansies as they are growing everywhere.