Renewal Of Vows

 My nephew had a renewal of vows this past weekend.  They got married last summer but many people were unable to come, so they had the renewal this summer for those of us unable to make it last year.

I finished a quilt for them.  This was a sampler BOM through Hancock fabrics.  I love the fabrics and I hope they enjoy the quilt also.  The quilt was done, just needed to be quilted.

It was quilted by a friend who lives close.   Some of these blocks were pretty tricky to make.  Like I said, I hope they enjoy it.

Binding

 I was looking at my sewing space and I have a couple of quilts that need binding and that need quilting.  I guess I know what I need to work on for the rest of the month.  I hope to have some pictures to show you soon!  In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of some of the deer we have in our yard.

A couple of bucks.

Mom and her twins.

Fish

 I have a few little fish!  

I love the way these are coming together from my bonus HSTs.

Fish School

 Did you see?  Bonnie Hunter has a new Leader/Ender Challenge, Fish School.  I have a bunch of bonus HSTs already sewn up just waiting to be used.  This looks like the perfect project.  They were all squared up and stored in my "special" container, the recycled lettuce package.  LOL

The HSTs were all purples, so I'm putting them into groups and pinning each group together.  I will bag them up with 10 groups per bag.  This helps me to keep everything from ending up spread out all over the sewing room.  Finished blocks will fit nicely back in my "special" container. 

Dirty Dozen

 The Dirty Dozen is starting up again at Country Threads.  Here are the guidelines for the Dirty Dozen.

This year I'm going to work at quilt backings.  I have a bunch of quilt tops (more than 12) hanging in the guest bedroom closet.  So I pulled 12 of them and listed them out.  My goal is to at least get the backing made for each.  If I get some quilting done, great.  But at least I will have a backing and it will be one more step closer to getting to the finish line.  I have some backing pieces in my bins and some of the backings will be made of fabrics from the stash.  Should be an interesting year.

This is my Number 3.

The pattern is called "Tulsa Town" by Villa Rosa Designs. It helped to thin out my drawer of 3.5 inch strips.  I was lucky to get this shot as the wind was not helping me at all.  I'm thinking I need a scrappy back for this one.  We'll see what I come up with.