Thursday, April 15, 2010
Gardening, applique and noteworthy quilt
Spring seems to be in full bloom right now which means summer gardening is about to begin. I can't wait. Yesterday I went a bought a new compost bin. That was exciting! It's already partially filled with chicken manure and straw. Today I went to The Garden Corner, my favorite place for gardening ideas, plants, etc. and bought asparagus, blueberries, and seed potatoes. I hope to plant them all tomorrow.
I've also been working many long hours on the community garden. It has been so fun. The enthusiasm from the community and my team of 12 who are working on this with me is wonderful. The funding is in (all $4,000.) to develop the garden, the garden plots are all rented (with a waiting list of 15 people), and even the garden class tomorrow has a high enrollment. There's many out there who want to garden and this community garden will meet many needs. You can check out the community garden website at www.tualatincommunitygarden.com
My goal of appliqueing four leaves everyday worked until I ran out of leaves. I have new ones cut out and will do a post on my favorite way of appliqueing soon. So I'm behind the 4 a day by two days already -- probably won't catch up, but when the leaves are ready, I'll get back to my goal.
A customer's quilt won best of show in a shop hop contest. She emailed me the news and photo of the quilt. If you want to see it, scroll down to the pie quilt. It was really cute and I'm glad she won!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Labels
- 4-H (3)
- applique (5)
- apron (2)
- baby chicks (2)
- birthday (1)
- blocking a quilt (1)
- canning (5)
- cats (2)
- cavernous sinus tumor (1)
- cleaning (1)
- customer quilts (10)
- cutting tables (1)
- daughter's wedding (3)
- Days of Week Quilt (1)
- Dresden Plate (2)
- EQ6 (1)
- fair (1)
- fall decorations (2)
- fan quilt (1)
- feathers (1)
- gardening (2)
- grandchildren (1)
- granddaughter (3)
- green tomatoes (2)
- holoprosencephaly (1)
- home canning (1)
- home decorating (1)
- hot weather (1)
- Katie's quilt (2)
- kittens (1)
- Leah's Spring quilt (9)
- longarm tools and gadgets (1)
- machine quilting (29)
- meningioma brain tumor (1)
- minky quilt backs (2)
- moving (1)
- new year (3)
- new york beauty (1)
- NW Quilt Expo (2)
- Open House (1)
- painting (1)
- patriotic quilts (1)
- photo quilt (1)
- plant grow light (1)
- practice quilting (1)
- purse (1)
- quilt binding (1)
- quilt racks (1)
- quilt retreats (3)
- quilt show (5)
- quilt studio (14)
- quilting (9)
- quilting gifts (1)
- quilts (1)
- raffle quilt (3)
- remodeling (1)
- reproduction fabric (2)
- ripping out machine quilting stitches (1)
- seed starting (1)
- sewing (3)
- sewing a wedding dress (7)
- sewing machine (1)
- silk quilt (3)
- sisters (1)
- staycation (3)
- Thanksgiving decoration (1)
- thread catcher bag/pin cushion pattern (1)
- thread tension (1)
- upholstery (1)
- urban chickens (1)
- vacation (4)
- wedding ring quilt (1)
- wholecloth quilts (10)
No comments:
Post a Comment