June-August Baby Quilt

I started this one in June and finished the binding in August.  I was gone 10 days in July and it threw me off in odd ways.  I think I just drifted about in the second half of July not getting much of anything accomplished.  Of course it was bloody hot here and that could have been part of it too.

This is my favorite pattern to use when there is a big bold print for the center.  I had also taken a challenge of making 100 geese units in a month and this quilt alone has 44!

What I learned.  I was intending to machine stitch the binding which means I sew it to the back and fold it over to the front and stitch again.  That was a mistake for two reasons.  I was so unhappy with my attempt at stitching on the front, I ripped out a section three times before giving up on that.  However, by folding from the back to the front, I had more that than a quarter of an inch to stitch down, now by hand.  That extra binding covered all the outside points of the geese.  It would have happened whichever method I used, machine or by hand.  No baby will notice of course, but it surely annoys me.

I took this photo in the early morning before the sun was over the mountain.  The colors look good except the corners are more coral than red.

The quilt measures approx. 45" by 48".

SMOA - Second Visit

This time it was me, Carol, Carrie and her nephew Peter who starts kindergarten tomorrow.  A very nicely behaved boy!  And, there were more visitors today often with husbands.

This is the quilt I voted for this time:

Because of the fabric choices, men's shirts, it's a very comfortable, soft, peaceful looking quilt.  Makes me think of the Japanese quilters and the colors so many of them work in.

I'm hoping to go to the museum at least one more time.

SMOA

First trip, if you don't count Monday when we discovered they were closed, to The 45th Annual Springville Quilt Show.  I wish I knew what year I first started attending this wonderful exhibit of quilts mostly by local Utah quilters.

Here is my favorite from today and the one I voted for:

This was big, at least a twin sized quilt, but no measurements were given.  Also hand quilted!  We love that.

And one more, a close up because oh boy, I really, really love this quilt.

Today's View

I would say the deck dropped another three inches overnight.  sigh

Not the way I wanted to restart

This is the picture I took at 9 this morning on my way to Macys to take my blood pressure.

Once again, my street is closed but this time it is the west side of University.  Detouring still required to get west of course but north and south are accessible.

I thought that was as exciting as the day would be but Jan called just before noon.  She was feeling pretty good and suggested that we go to The Quilt Show at the Springville Museum of Art.  It's a tradition with us, just like the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point.  I was picking her up at 2 so she could grab a quick nap.

Our first clue should have been that there were not very many cars in the lot.  We walked to the door with the women that had pulled in right behind us.  Door was locked.  Museum not open on Mondays.  Heavy Sigh.  Three of the five of us knew that but hadn't remembered that it was Monday I guess.

Dropped Jan off, tentatively scheduled for tomorrow.  If I had come to the computer which sits on the kitchen table, I might have noticed another clue.

A leaning umbrella...

The big dog needed to go out and I had seen what looked to be two more cucumbers as I looked out the window.  Yes, there were two more cucumbers and as I was lifting leaves to see if there were even more, I heard Min make a sudden move on the deck, like she was slipping.  Not uncommon for her but why?

It's a little hard to tell but the deck is falling off the house.  You can see in the first picture it has dropped about 6-8 inches.  The second picture shows the angle of the railing to the house.

I have since moved the table and chair ever so carefully because it doesn't feel very secure and then I noticed this:

Right where my toe is the planks are separating.  Above the line is even with the planks that butt up to the house.  Hopefully that will not be larger in the morning.  There will be a deck man here tomorrow morning to see what should be done.

So, I wonder what my blood pressure reads now.