Design Wall Late or rather Fabric Tuesday

I forgot to post this on Design Wall Monday, so I'm posting it on Fabric Tuesday.  If you're the first to guess what kind of quilt I"m making, I'll send you 2 fat quarters.  Be sure to leave your email address in your comment if you use anonymous.

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Always great.

Quilt-Along moving along

Making progress on Quilt-Along
All borders added.  Decided since my borders are only 2.5 inches wide, I'm going to do the minimal quilting on them, so I am doing a line half way between the border seam and the outside seam.  I'll be using the walking foot for this and the seam guide.

Remove the basting pins of the top border.  Lay flat on your cutting table the top border of your quilt.  Fold over toward you the border and the batting.

Now fold the back of the quilt under at the seam.  You want the backing as far as you can get it from the cutting edge which will be the edge of your border.

Fold the front and the batting back up and align the edge of your ruler with the edge of your border.  Trim away the excess batting.

Bring you backing up now so that it is smooth and is like the photo. 

Now trim your backing to 3/4" or 1" all across the border.  This will be your binding.  Do this for the other three sides.  Repin your border's edge through the three layers. We will now quilt the border.

Through the window

signs of Spring bring a smile (especially after this last very unseasonal cold spell - it got down to 37!)

poppies, geraniums and an Aeonium Kiwi bordering the abundant grass.

pink and white geraniums

three more geranium and some alyssum - do you think I like geraniums?

Some bush sweet peas and statis amongst the soon to explode Mexican primrose.  You can see three blooms of it in the top left.  Oh, yes, a miniature rose in there - white buds.

Spring Break

I had the pleasure of watching my two grandsons during Spring Break. Will had 2 weeks off  and he spent the first one with us.  And so did baby Alan:

Alan is at the stage when he tries to talk and his baby talk is so sweet!

Will was such a helpful older brother during the week.  Thank you, William!