I Like Thursday

because I get to play with fabric.  My daughter gave me some plaids AND in search for another fabric I found a bag of stripes and plaids,  so I'll be able to move forward on Unit 2 of SLOL.
Outside and catercorner to our house is a magnificent floral display:
It's a bougainvillea.  It blooms like this when it gets lots of sun and little water - way earlier than normal for the year.  I'm enjoying it while I can - who knows what it will do this summer.

The colorful part of the plant are the leaves (called bracts) which surround the true minuscule flower - sort of like the poinsettia.  I save photos like these for our hot summers as a relief from the brown and gray that can overwhelm us.

I'm off to Lea Anna's I Like Thursday post. Go on by and see her Thursday delights and those of others.

Some of This; Some of That

Giveaway still open - see last Friday's post.  I haven't shown you my 2nd Design Wall in a long time.  Here are some bits and pieces that reside there. LOL - I'm hoping they won't always reside there.
New-ish are the three new hexagon flowers I machine appliqued to the backgrounds and some more teeny pinwheels for My Small World. The rest is a holding ground for things I"m working on.
The main design wall (as you can see) is empty for a change. I actually haven't started anything recently. I'm still working on quilting my Mod-Mod. I've been held back trying to figure out how to mark a white square and then Barbara at Baltimore Garden Quilts posted the very thing I needed - How to Use a Hera Marker. Perfect!  Learn a new technique and get on with that block.

I went to a quilt show with my Mom [I'll show photos soon], and found some fabric for my primitive quilt from a vendor there - Simply Put Plus. I wasn't having much luck on the Net.
As I'm going to use up these fat quarters, I'm not counting them as adds to my stash.  She has a lot of good stuff and fabric for my primitive Sweet Land of Liberty. If you can't find plaids and such, send her an email. Since she makes kits, she'd be happy to sell fabric, too.  Her business is patterns, etc. I'll be linking to Design Wall Monday and Esther's WOW, and other linky parties under my more tab.  See you there.

We were promised rain, but it never appeared. Now they say by the beginning of next week, the eternal summer will be back.  Stay warm those of you who are really experiencing winter. We're resigned to the return of drought conditions.

Blessings to you all,

Slow Sunday Stitching

Added a few bits to my eagle, and now I'll be slow stitching the words today.

I've made two more teeny blocks for My Small World and can count the new border on the baby quilt.  So I had a grand total of .30 yards to add to my destashing.  YTD now 4.43 yards.  I better do something big or some culling as I should be more like 12 yards destashed so far.  Hmm.  Actually, once I get the quilting on the Mod-Mod lap quilt done, I'll have time to use more stash starting with the binding for that one.

Giveaway still open. May be a book, or EPP papers or fabric. Go to last Friday's post to link.  I'm linking to Sunday Stash and Slow Sunday Stitching.  Hope you got to sew/quilt today. Blessings!

Progrees is Made

Progress is made, at least some.  More blocks were added to the baby quilt I was working on (see previous post). More scraps were used. I...