This one’s called Snowflake Dreams of Spring , and I started it last year in hopes of entering it into the Spring International Quilt Festival in Chicago. Time slipped away, and I didn’t make the deadline. Also, I felt I had to redo some of the quilting and that put a damper on the project.
Looking at it today, after several months have gone by, the quilting wasn’t as poor as I thought. May have to pull out a few inches and straighten it up, but not nearly the wholesale undoing that I dreaded.
My goal is to get the quilting done by the weekend, so I can start sewing on my crocheted trim and lots and lots of buttons.
Last week was the first week of school, and I managed to sew one pair of Capri pants for fifth-grade Eva.
It was also the week that we started in earnest to build a fence around our new place, where we will be building a house. My Dad and his helper did most of the work on it, and I did a little. All the metal posts are set in concrete, and now a welder is attaching braces and so forth. Next week: stretching barbed wire to keep the cows out. You’ll be reading a lot more about our house over the next couple of years.