Hay Making and Foxgloves...

 

No stitching for me today...

Mowing the 2nd hay field...

I am not alone...

Lots and lots of turkey vultures...

they follow the mower looking for

tidbits to feed their young...

nothing goes to waste...

It was a beautiful day to be out of doors...

The field is mowed and I am heading for the barn !

It is Foxglove season here in the 

Pacific Northwest

Foxglove growing up and through 

an old squeeze chute...

Foxglove growing up through an 

irrigation pipe trailer...

I love the spotty throats inside the blooms...

Pink has never looked this good !

One of my favorite times of the year!

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Hay Season & Feathers...

 

Work before Play

I spent the day on my little red tractor...

It was nice and cool out...

a perfect day for mowing hay

Look what I found:

Elk Antler

Elk herds spend a lot of time 

grazing in the hay fields,

and in the Spring the 

bull elk shed their antlers...

I kept my eye out, but didn't find any others.

It was a beautiful day outdoors !

When I came home I was

itching to do some stitching:

I pulled out a yard of hand dyed fabric

and put together a quilt sandwich 

and just played...

I have been doing so much piecing,

I forgot what it was like to machine quilt...

YLI Variations Thread

Always a favorite of mine !

High Contrast.....yellow on blue

Very satisfying !

A perfect way to end the day.

5 more hay fields to mow.

More To come...

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Wild Goose Chase.....Top Done

I spent some time in the Thread Shed

yesterday piecing the last 2 seams 

of the Wild Goose Chase quilt top:

 

2 Seams left to piece together...

1 seam left to piece together...

Giving it a final pressing...

I took it outdoors for a photo shoot...

I put it back on the design wall

and noticed that the very last flying goose

on the bottom right corner...

is upside down.

Time to get out the seam ripper !

Wild Goose Chase 56 x 66

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Improv....Wild Goose Chase.....Progress

This is what the improv piece looked 

like a week ago on the design wall: 

I have continued to add more flying geese units

around the outside edges...

I am slowly filling in all the gaps...

I started to piece the top together...

it is like a puzzle putting all of these units 

together of all varied sizes.

There are so many seams,

the quilt is shrinking in all directions

as I piece it together...

It is becoming one cohesive unit...

I am in the process of adding a new row 

to the right side...

then I can piece all of the vertical rows together.

More to Come...

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Improv Piecing.....Wild Goose Chase

 

In the last 2 weeks I have spent some time

with my latest improv project...

This is what it looked like 2 weeks ago:

I was just getting a few blocks up 

on the design wall...

It is growing...

All of these flying geese units together,

remind me of a Wild Goose Chase...

My scraps are dwindling...

I am using fabrics scraps from hexagon quilt

I made a few years back.

I will keep adding geese units

until the scraps run out...

The Thread Shed has a new addition:

Sunflower Quilt Block

The Sunflower Quilt block looks great

on the yellow Thread Shed...

Here is a BURST of COLOR for you:

Pink Lupine

This is blooming just outside the front door.

Spring is very slow coming to the Pacific Northwest

this year, but it is on the way!

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