Signing Off with a Finish

The packing is all finished. This morning I just need to fill the bird feeders and water all the pots. And since I have so many seeds in pots right now, watering the pots is a significant investment in time. We're expecting warm weather all week, though, and so all those little green things needs them a drink before we go. 

Before I got after the packing yesterday, I turned the final corner on the binding for the Sundress quilt.

And that makes a finish. It ends up at 74 x 74 inches. I started this quilt on September 9, 2017. It was my second oldest WIP. 

Sadie was my quilt inspector yesterday. Smitty has already rendered his verdict...too girly for Mancats. Sadie likes it, though. She's wondering when I'm going to make one of these dresses for her to wear.

Here's how it looks from the back. 

The backing fabric was from a quilt shop we visited at the beginning of our USA Perimeter tour. I was only just getting started on the embroidery at the time, but I found that fabric at a shop in Whitehall, Montana, called The Dysfunctional Quilter. I can recall standing in the shop and looking up the size of the quilt so I'd know how much to buy. I can't always recall where I purchased certain fabrics. In fact, sometimes I look in my stash and find something and say, "Where did THAT come from?" And then I'm sure the fabric fairies have visited and left behind little surprises.

Finishing the Sundress quilt was my goal for April's

and so I'll link up there when the party gets going.

So anyway...that was pretty much the day aside from packing. We needed to pick up a couple of items in town, and so Mike suggested dinner out. It was such a nice warm day, we could eat at an outdoor venue we like. Just as we were leaving, I snapped this picture of the Black Tartarian cherry tree. It's looking fabulous just now. It's a very good time for it to be blooming.

I noticed a wild cherry tree at the edge of our property is also in full bloom. I want to pay more attention to it this year. No reason I can't use wild cherries in some of my recipes, is there? Note to self: investigate the use of wild cherries.

Okay, and so when we arrived at the restaurant, we marveled at their beautiful wisteria. We visited this restaurant one week ago, and the wisteria wasn't even close to blooming. It's amazing what a week of warm weather can do.

When I came upstairs to write this post, I left Smitty fully engaged in his morning sunbath. It's just about the best thing ever when the sun shines in on his pole in the morning.

So we'll be packing up the last minute items and taking off a little later. Looking forward to seeing the beach and the gift of dry weather in April. I might be back sooner, but you can expect me for sure and certain on Friday.