A Finish for Ruth McDowell

Good morning, my friends. It was a productive day in the sewing room yesterday, and the kitchen too, if you're keeping score. Of course, nothing could happen until I'd done my slow-stitching. The bottom right corner is finished, and I’ve moved my hoop to the left. Probably I still have a couple of days of work on this, but I should start thinking about getting the next one ready to go.

After that, I went on the hunt for more blueberries. There are a few more ripe ones each day. I probably have enough for baking something now, but I want to wait another day. We’ve been putting them on our granola cups, and this is a tasty and surprisingly filling breakfast. We need to have some blueberries left for that.

Since I was opting to conserve the blueberries, I went ahead with my plan to bake a skillet cherry cobbler. The cherries are so nice and firm when they come straight from the trees.

While that was baking, I went to work finishing up the binding for Ruth’s Legacy. Sadie was my helper cat for this.

It went faster than anticipated. I turned the fourth corner…

And I had a finished quilt in less than an hour.

Here’s a peek at the back.

Okay, and then I went to work in the sewing room. I needed to make and trim 20 HST’s.

And then I needed to make five 4-patches.

Sadie helped with that too.

With those sections made, I could sew the blocks together. Here are the five blocks for the third row.

And here are the three rows of blocks I have for this quilt so far. The blocks are half finished now.

Heading upstairs, I looked out the window to see these two deer lounging at the far end of the field. A doe has been hanging around, eating the birdseed we put out for the birds. I have an idea these two studly bucks are looking for a date. These photos were taken from inside the house, and the deer were at the far end of the field...about 100 yards away. This was a pretty good test of my new camera’s zoom capability.

Okay, so I’m still wanting to get out and experiment more with my new camera. I have in mind to go for a walk today and take some random shots. It’s a little gloomy out as I’m writing. The sun is supposed to make an appearance around 11:00 a.m. It would be nice to have some good light if I’m going to be taking pictures. I’ve been wanting to try out some of the pre-programmed “scene” settings and see how those work.

There should be some time for sewing today. Up next for quilting is the Shop Hop 3.0 quilt. I’m still trying to decide how to quilt this. Something will come to me.

If I get time in the sewing room today, I’ll get started on the third block for Where the Cows Come Home. These are the two blocks I have for this quilt so far.

And that’s probably enough to keep me busy for the day. The garden can probably wait another day for hoeing, but the birdfeeders are empty again. Filling the birdfeeders is a good way to get me out of the house and checking on things. Keeping my fingers crossed for some sunshine today. How are things at your end? I’m hoping any Missouri readers are safe from the heavy rain. If that’s you, then be safe.