LOTS TO DO

We're having a cold, rainy summer here.  Once in a while we get a nice, warm, sunshiny start to the day, as we did today, so I dress for summer in shorts and shirtsleeved shirt.  Then I go outside and find it's really quite cold and windy.

This morning the fences we're renting to keep the deer out of the vegetable garden arrived.  S. and her husband brought them on a flat bed trailer, as they are 6 feet high and 10 feet long.  We got them set up and I'm confident they will do the job of keeping out the deer.  There are showers just now, so I'll take a picture tomorrow and show you how neat and effective they are.  Rental is just $.50 per linear foot per month.  That's pretty doable.

Over the weekend I did another of the "Snowman" panel quilts.  This one is for IDA, for use in The Fabric Nook to help create interest in this really cute panel.

This one has a different border, a directional fabric showing cardinals and top hats, made to coordinate with the panel.  Because it's directional I needed a pretty long piece of the border fabric, but it's pretty cute.  I added a wider than usual binding to make a statement that relates to the inner border of red.  That worked well.

The snowman actually has a triple layer of polyester batting, cut to size to "puff" him up.  The rest of the quilt has just one layer of that batting.  The machine quilting on the snowman and his hat, etc. was done with threads the same as the backgrounds: red, brown, black and white.  The quilting on the background was all done with an invisible (dark) thread.  It looks really cute and The Fabric Nook was delighted with it.  Now I need to make up a hand-out sheet of useful tips on creating this cute quilt