Stories from the Sewing Room

Today I have a quilt finish to share: my Log Cabin Stars quilt. The pattern is by Emily Dennis of Quilty Love. I used stash for the entire front but I did have to buy backing fabric (bought from the sale section) since I'd exhausted most of my fabrics in the color ways used in the quilt and didn't have enough coordinating left to make the size.

I quilted it with the Perm design from Longarm League. I will freely admit that I saw Jess's Log Cabin Stars quilted with Perm and decided to copy. :) It's very densely quilted but still flexible. 

I took a break from quilting over the long weekend since I'd been going six to seven days a week for six or seven weeks and really needed a break. I do have just a few quilts to share.

Toni's that I started last Tuesday and finished Wednesday, quilted with In the Swirls.

Carol's Bedford Tiles quilt made with Halloween and Aboriginal fabrics, quilted with Malachite. Carol's in my small guild and we had a class on this quilt. A few people from the guild have finished theirs. Mine's still a work in progress.

Jeri's baby quilt, quilted with Outside In. I fully bound this one.

And finally, Jeri's Strip Tease quilt, quilted with Dragonfly Dance. I still need to bind this one and I have one more of her quilts to go in this batch. 

Out in the garden, the peas are still struggling. The lettuce is ready to harvest. It's a very tiny harvest this year. We're getting a handful of strawberries once or twice a week. I didn't plant zucchini because I thought I had all these volunteer plants. Well, it's time to face reality. They are not zucchini, but pumpkins. The leaves are HUGE. I haven't grown pumpkins since I was a kid. I'm sad about the zucchini and am planning to start some in some sort or bucket or container this week with the hopes that I can get a small harvest. My neighbors didn't plant a garden this year, so I won't be getting any extra peppers or zucchinis from them. (We traded crops last summer.)

I found a few interesting plants out in the jungle surrounding the spare garage. There are some wild dianthus in the middle of the ragweed forest. Ragweed is native in the US but invasive in Europe. Ragweed, though an allergen, is good for wildlife. 

I think the flower of the onion grass below (also known as wild garlic and wild onion) is really cool. I guess this plant is considered invasive along the east coast and into West Virginia and Tennessee. We have it here and there in our lawn, but I don't feel it's as invasive as some of the native plants the local plant people push. We just mow it with the rest of the grass. 

I'll be back Saturday with June's OMG link up.