Garden photos

 

 

 

 

My garden was getting kind of thirsty last week so I am so thankful for the rain. We are also thankful that we didn't get bad storms. I am really proud that my sum and sustance hosta is getting big, I have been babying it since I brought it here from MO almost three years ago. My roma tomato plant is really putting on the fruit. I also planted six strawberry plants. They are pretty much finished producing and starting to send out runners. The berries we did get were very juicy and and tasted good so I am hoping to have enough for a strawberry shortcake next year. They still have to survive the summer heat.

We have grass!

 

Tom and I spent quite a bit of time last fall leveling and grading our lawn after we had the unwanted trees removed. We took an additonal ten trees out of our yard, that is after Tom had cut down about that many the first year we had moved in. Walking around the yard we still have over twenty trees left. Our hopes were to get enough light in so that we could have some grass to walk on instead of slippery mud and moss. Max just has to have grass to do his business. Anyway I had to take a photo since I am not sure that the tall fescue will survive the hot summers here. Our hopes is that with the shade from the trees and some rain that it will. If not at least I will have this photo to remember that we did have a lawn in the spring of 2010. If it dies we will have to plug it with zoysia. The bermuda will not grow under the trees and we really enjoy the shade the trees provide so they are definitly staying!

February BOM

 
Well, with Monday being a holiday, I was able to take a few hours and work on my BOM. I am not sure I am real happy with my fabric selections, but I have limited myself to using only fabrics that are in my stash. Now to pull fabrics out for my March BOM.

Bunny hill design

 
 
I wanted to do this block of the month last year as it was offered online, but never got to it. I decided this year I would try to do the BOM faithfully, but just remember it is only January. I'm using my machine to do the applique so perhaps this is going to happen. Each block has a bit of embroidery to do and I love the combination of quilting and embroidery. So the enclosed photo is the January block. I also included a photo of a finished quilt, it was not done by me. I swear my sewing machine was so excited that she got turned on yesterday, and I must say it was fun to get it done so quickly.

hawaiian quilt

Well, I finally finished the needleturn applique on my hawaiian quilt. I have been working on this quilt since last summer. I chose it to get more experience with needleturn applique. It definitely gave me that! I am so excited to finally have a quilt to hand quilt again, which has become my favorite part of making a quilt. So the photo above is just the top before it has been quilted. I guess is will take me most of the spring to completely get the hand quilting done. It is nice to snuggle up in the evening and have some hand work to do and keep warm with all this cold weather we have had of late.

kitchen photos

 
 
 
 
Amy here are the photos I promised to post!

What a difference

 

 

Came across this photo I took of the backyard looking at our patio before we moved in, and then added the latest shot I took to see the difference. I know we have been busy ripping out, but I had forgotten the jungle it used to be.

It's fall!

 

Well, I just had to take time today to take a picture of my garden mum. It is such a bright yellow and I am so glad I took the little shoot last spring and stuck in the ground near the patio. I love the little miracles that happen everyday, and just wanted to share the joy.