3 tops ready to quilt

 I dropped these three at the quilter today.  I started all of them at Scrub Stitchin' in Australia.

It always surprises me how long it takes to add borders and piece backs.

I also got these two bound. These are my first ever all machine binding. 

Memorial Day in the states is when we put flowers on the graves of our loved ones. 

This is my sweetheart and grand daughter and myself visiting my husband's father's grave.

My husband's family was large anyway, and then they adopted 4 more.

We lost one a year ago. He was too young. 

Some of my husband's siblings and his mother posed for a photo. 

My grandmother's grave

I don't really have many deceased family graves to visit where I live.  The day was too short to drive to mine. 

In DECEMBER, Two quilts returned from the quilter - Yay!

 I received these two babies back from the quilter in mid-December and am just getting around to posting them now. I guess Christmas craziness made me forget to post about them.

I love these quilts SEW SEW much!!

Here is the back side of Sand Dollar.

Obviously this is the front.

I present to you "For the Birds"!

15 Minutes to Stitch Report beginning 2023

2023 Progress Report

For the Birds - top is done!!!

 Borders were just finished up on this baby.  It measures 80" x 97", much larger than I set out to make.  I really wanted the bicycle border, and it needed to be wide.

My friend and I will be making a large bicycle to go on the back side of our "For the Birds" quilt.  I purchased this cute pattern and am eagerly awaiting its arrival.

I have also been contemplating the finish of my quilted barns. I found this Windmill pattern by the same designer as the bike. I fell quickly in love and decided my barns need a windmill.

I am pondering my Churn Dash quilt a lot of late as part of Chooky's SAL.  My brain is swimming with ideas, and Google and Pinterest have been searched.  One idea is to use them to frame some cute houses I bought a couple of months ago.  I may sew one up and see what I think before I officially decide.  Doing the SAL in this way would kill two birds with one stone - use my recent purchase while following the SAL.  On the other hand,  it would be fun to just make a churn dash quilt on its own without the houses.  The crazy side of me might actually do both.  What the heck - they are pretty simple blocks anyway.

Once they are churn dash framed, I am considering placing flowers between them.  The way they are below, the flowers overpower the houses.  I want the focus on the houses.  If the churn dash frame doesn't make them pop, I will find a simple block to go between them instead of the flowers.

I could also churn dash frame these cute chicken blocks as well.  Too many churn dash ideas.  It is super fun though.

I am linking today with:

Monday Making

Design Wall Monday

Oh Scrap!

Monday This & That

June One Monthly Goal & American Patchwork & Quilting UFO Challenge

One Monthly Goal for June: 

For June #1 was drawn.  My #1 is a complete finish of my Sand Dollar quilt.  I need to applique' circles on all of them - blanket stitch by machine and then assemble the top.

This is my planned layout, but I am contemplating a change.

Legs done, a dog, and some barn yard cows

I am catching up a little on my monthly goals.  I am happy to report that elf legs are pieced.  Some Christmas bells on the shoes need to be ordered to complete them.

Another Christmas dog is pieced as well. He needs some embroidery for a mouth and a white ball on the end of his hat.

Cows are assembled and need eyes,  nostrils,  and lashes.

I am making two different quilts...

One cow block in each quilt will have a goat standing on her back; hence, the legs can be seen.

I am joining the following linky parties today:

Wednesday wait loss
Esther's  WOW
Let's Be Social
Moving it Forward Monday
Monday Making

Chicks in the Garden is a Flimsy!

I finished the border on this fun little quilt and am in the process of piecing a back for it.  

I also got Sweet Cherry Orange on the frames and  a start on the basting.

15 Minutes to Stitch Check UP:

This week 6/7
This month 6/8
This year 157/188
83.5%

I am linking up with:

BOM's Away
Can I get a Whoop Whoop?
Silly Momma Quilts WIP Linky

Report on my wonderful trip visiting family last week!

I have returned so refreshed from my visits with family this past week!  No one in my family lives close to me, so I have to road trip to see them.  In my travels I visited my parents, brother's family, and both of my sister's families.  I also visited a cousin and both of my daughters and grand babies.  I have one other brother, and I visited his wife and daughter last week.  

I also have some quilt progress to show.

Sliced Snow Globe is almost a Flimsy!  I plan to finish it today!

I helped my sister start a heart quilt.  I mostly just cut a little and pressed for her on the last morning I was there.  She is making this for her in-laws to tie and give to the next niece/nephew that gets married.   

She also inspired me so much with her bathroom remodel.  She took these oak cabinets that were a bit dated and put a gel stain on them.  I fell in love and plan to do the same to my bathrooms.  

I also made the bird blocks that go with my flowers. This is called Chicks in the Garden.  It is a crazy bright quilt, but I love it.  

I am a bit sad that the beaks don't show up.  I didn't do a good job of picking them.

While visiting my cousin, I fell in love with a quilt on her design wall and came straight home to rummage through my stash to make one for myself.  Below is her quilt and the fabric I found to make the main blocks with.  

The best part of coming home was to a finished house.  Our home had cream colored siding that had holes all over it due to a hale storm.  We have since done stucco and rock.  I just LOVE IT!  We are saving to remove and put on a new deck, so please look beyond the ugly deck for now.  The trim (facia) that goes next to the roof is not complete yet either.  

Can I just add that it is super stressful picking stucco colors and rock.  You just hope so much that it all matches and looks good when you are done.  In spite of my worries, I am more pleased with our choice that I ever imagined.  I LOVE IT!  It is also hard to decide where to put the rock.  Our house can be seen from three sides, so we felt we needed to do the front and sides but not the back with rock.  

I am linking up with:

BOMs away
UFO Busting
Moving it Forward Monday
MCM