Stories from the Sewing Room

It's time to share my March PHD progress. 

Linking with Ms. P.

In March I completed item #1 on my list, the Marble Mystery quilt. 

I quilted and am in the process of binding #3, Melodic Mystery quilt.

No progress was made on items 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.

I had one new start, a project from a class I took with Linda Hahn at IHQS. No further progress has been made because I felt that the templates, foundations, and book had a smoke scent that I'm trying to eradicate before working on this project further. This is a mini, so hopefully it will be a finish this year.

I did make one block from another UFO that isn't on my list.

I had a busy March with quilting and lots of bindings. I have just a few to share from the last week. The first one belongs to Jeri and is quilted with Longwood. I fully bind Jeri's quilts.

This one is also Jeri's. She selected Fusion for this quilt.

And this is Deb's, quilted with Malachite.

I had planned to quilt another of my UFOs over the weekend, but instead I worked in the upper garden and assisted my husband with placing poles for the new vegetable garden's enclosure. I'm super proud that I dug out most of the lamb's ear by myself in this section. I almost filled our 24" cube weed bag. Sharp eyes will notice I left a little clump. I might rip out a bit more of that, but think I'll leave most of it right there because the bees love the flowers. I'll need to be vigilant so it doesn't take over the sidewalk again.

Unfortunately, I have a long ways to go with the rest of that garden. Plus it has spread all over the lawn and I'll need to dig that out too. This part is going to be tricky because of all the iris rhizomes. All those lighter spots along the top of the sidewalk out in the grass are also lamb's ear. All of this came from one plant. 

Here are the poles for the vegetable garden. They held up through the storms we had Sunday night. Sunday started off breezy and overcast, transitioning to really pleasant, warm, sunny weather. Lots of people were out for walks in the late afternoon. Then at dinnertime, our power started flashing and browning out before completely going out for the next five or six hours. The tornado sirens started wailing right as the power went off. We didn't have any damage other than lack of power. I guess the storm was a lot stronger several miles closer to town. I saw social media reports of loud noises like a train or a jet, and have seen lots of downed trees, but the NWS has determined no tornadoes came through my area. Edited to add: now the NWS says an EF-0 did go through briefly, touching down for less than 1/4 mile.

Sunday late afternoon

My husband kept working on the enclosure Monday and Tuesday and has the top boards on. We bought fencing, but he hasn't had time to add that yet.

Tuesday afternoon

I noticed that the redbuds are starting to have a purple-y haze. If you look closely at any of my pictures with trees in the backgrounds, you can see they are starting to bud out. 

The tree branches in the center are redbuds. I didn't capture the color very well.

I went to Jo-Ann on Friday, hoping they might have some thread left. Nope. Only a little bit of machine embroidery and serger threads remained. There were some zippers, but no other notions. No interfacing. No batting or anything else usually stocked in that area. Most yarn was gone and all cross stitch supplies. There was still quite a bit of fabric, but the sales aren't that good on them and everything was a minimum of two yards. Upholstery fabric was a three-yard minimum. I also saw a bit of vinyl and it looked like there was still a decent amount of jewelry findings. The whole thing is just so sad. 

Linking with Quiltery and Alycia Quilts.