Housework and Hand-Stitching

My title pretty much describes my day. It was another rainy day, but things are looking good for the coming week. It looks like Summer will come on time, even if Spring has been AWOL. Rainy days are good days to sit by the window and sew, and that's exactly what I did. The washing machine was doing all the work while I was finishing off my quilt. 

There was a little sunshine in the morning, and so I took a walk around to check on the peonies. I didn't notice much change, except that one flower was resting on the ground, full of water. So, I shook all the water from all the flowers. (I probably need to do that again.) I expect this one will be the next to bloom.

As I rounded the corner to the upper patio, I found Smitty, looking for all the world like garden art.

He was standing at attention. He takes his squirrel and gopher hunting duties very seriously. A cat must be disciplined and purrsistent.

Back inside, I went to work on my quilt binding. I didn't really expect to finish it all in a single day.

With my little stitching cat by my side, how could I go wrong?

So I stitched and stitched and stitched, and I stitched some more, and I rounded the third corner. By then, my one housekeeping chore was beckoning. Also, I was tired of sewing, and so it was easy to switch gears.

But I was so close to finishing, and so I went back to it after I'd finished my chore. When I turned the fourth corner, there were only about 20 inches left.

I started this quilt on January 16, 2019. It was a free block of the month from Cindy Staub at Quilt Doodle Doodles. I give you Garden Sunshine...a finished quilt:

Here's how it looks from the back.

Quilting and binding this quilt was June's goal for

so I'll be linking up there when the party starts at the end of the month.

But that wasn't my only hand-stitching for the day. Also, I took the first stitches on the next section of Calendula Patterdrip's Cottage. This one is going to take a while.

And this being Sunday, I'll be linking up to:

Okay so today is Father's Day! Happy Father's Day to all you father's out there. I always have to post this picture on Father's Day. It's one of my favorites.

We were so much younger then! Today I'll be making Eggs Benedict for the father of my children. We were to have dinner with Erik and Mae. Erik had thawed a big brisket for barbecuing. Then both Erik and Mae tested positive for COVID. The virus seems to be right at our doorstep these days. Erik and Mae are recovering, but our Father's Day dinner is off. Oh well. I'll make something good for the old man.

Okay, so Eggs Benedict here I come. And then I'll get back to more slow stitching. I expect to start sewing together the French Roses blocks today too.