*Photo-heavy post*
First off, here is my PHD report for April.
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As you can see, I didn't make any progress this month, which is disappointing to me. I started and finished one additional knitted selvedge rug from the giant balls of selvedge. I don't have it listed on the starts, but I did start a third one. It's in the picture below. I am retiring from these after I finish the third one.
I did not work on a single other thing from my list during April other than some additional piecing on the Magnificent Mystery. I think my photo makes it look like the blocks are sewn, however, only the partial/half blocks are completed. The other two sets need to have the rows joined together.
Moving along to Paducah, we made a quick trip down there to see my quilt. I was feeling pretty anxious about it, like I thought my work would look like amateur hour. Thankfully it looked pretty decent hanging up. I grabbed a catalog for myself and for Connie, the maker.
Here are some of the quilts that caught my attention. I didn't get photos of the tags on most of these. Sorry about that. These first two quilts were in the "if I were an emoji" exhibit.The next group are in the minis. I always marvel at that section.
This one was by Kestrel Michaud. There are two detail shots and then the full quilt.
These are part of the national parks exhibit.
Longarm League is represented with the Dissent pantograph.Prince.
Loved these art quilts.
Amazing quilting on this Aspen quilt.
My son and I had a selfie taken with Ricky Tims by his quilt--he took the selfie on my phone. That was fun. I didn't end up getting the picture of the quilt that I was trying to take before the selfie. It's okay because Ricky gave us cards with his quilt on them.
I also really enjoyed the Cherrywood Challenge exhibit. I started taking pictures of it all, but then saw I could purchase a book (turns out I had to order it), so quit. They were all fantastic! The colors and the artistry were top-notch. Here's just one group of them.
My husband purchased a pattern and some templates to make it for me. We also made a brief stop at Hancocks so that my son could have that experience. 😜 No purchases there either. It seems silly to me to buy stuff when I don't have time to sew it.
I've completed a few more quilts. Here is one made by Trish, quilted with Interstellar Lite.
Here's Linda's quilt, quilted with Prairie Wheat. This one took me over two days. I got Donna's quilt bound.
I quilted Loop the Loop on Sara's quilt.
Jan S. picked Hiding Out for her quilt.
I also got part way through Amber's quilt, but had to stop and rip out a row I wasn't happy with. Unfortunately, that is a lengthy process. This fabric is funny (ripping in progress here).
Out in the garden, we have harvested some kale. We got a few of the shrubs and plants planted.
My husband saw an oriole on the feeder. I've only seen house finches at the oriole feeder.
I have also seen a downy woodpecker on the hummingbird feeder and a hummingbird one other time. My feeder blew down in Monday night's storms. Luckily it fell mostly straight down and didn't break. We had a tornado warning late Monday. I don't think there were any tornadoes and most of the storm missed us.
The chicks continue to change every day. They are now just about 4.5 weeks old. The jury is still out on whether they are hens or roosters. I'm pretty sure two are hens. The third is a mystery still.
Peanut has gone broody. My daughter was home over the weekend and kept moving her back out into the run. She tells me that they can stop eating and drinking while sitting on the nest. The roosters are being themselves. Here are Henry, Smoky, and Peanut.I'll be back Friday with May's OMG link up.
