Dreaming of Possibilities in 2025

I might see these in my dreams but I'm not promising myself progress on any or all of them.  Since what these need is so clear cut (except for Bramble Blooms), it makes sense I should be able to do something to move them forward to become finish tops or quilts.  But then there is life....

These are quilts I might possibly work on/play with in 2025, in no particular order.

Blue (+ brown) and lights blocks

My idea with these blocks was centers with a square set straight or on point surrounded by a square set the other way, etc.  But no stars.  I chose blues and lights but when Lizzy of Gone to the Beach sent an antique brown block, I decided to incorporate several more brown blocks.  The blocks will finish at 12" and I intend to use fabric in the pink/coral range for sashing and border.  Four across will make a quilt about 65-67 inches wide.  The challenge will be the length.  Five blocks down will finish between 81-83 inches.  Add one more block to the length and it will finish at about 93 inches which is perhaps a little too long.  I intend to make square-in-square cornerstones. The patterns for all of these blocks came from Judy Hopkins's book, 501 Rotary-Cut Quilt Blocks.from where I learned that the same pattern may have different names depending on the color arrangement.  Anyway, I need to make either three or seven more blocks.

Bramble Blooms

Dear, dear Bramble Blooms.  What a failure I made of my first effort.  I unstitched all but the center and a narrow border I'd added.  My fabrics are still in stacks and I hope to get back to this soon.

rose fabric squares

I've cut about half the number of squares I need for the quilt.  My intention was a one-patch but other ideas keep popping into my head.  What about a few subtle stars?  What about applique?  What about a border around each block?  What about . . . ?  I have a length of toile with children in old-fashioned clothing, playing old-fashioned games, also with beautiful bouquets of roses which might work for the back. 

Everyday Patchwork

The quilting is in progress.  I just need to make progress--stitch and get it done.

scrappy stars in mostly the red range

I'm using these 6" stars as leader/enders, except when I'm not.  Cutting takes time....  Still debating layout and size.  Rows with sashing?  Alternate plain squares?  On point or straight set?

little 9-patch in autumn colors

This is also a leader/ender and, again, cutting takes time.  I have plenty of scraps to cut.  Layout and size yet to be determined.

100 Day Stitch Book
I don't have a photo for this because I haven't decided whether to participate or not. Ann Wood Homemade hosts the 100 Day Stitch Book sew-along in which we cut fabric pages, stitch on them for 15 minutes every day for a week (or five days), then move to the next page.  Most of the finished books are not just stitches but have layers of fabric stitched in place. The appealing things about this are the aspect of play and that turned fabric edges are not necessary.

Will I have time? (It begins on Friday, January 17 and ends in April.)  Will I have the energy or the focus or the concentration?  I certainly have plenty of fabric for this.

I was looking online about vertigo and someone asked why he or she was so tired.  The responder said the brain is working harder than usual to try to keep the person balanced.  I translate that as, I wouldn't be so tired if I stayed in bed all day.  However, that would absolutely not be good for me or my muscles, and I think both the doctor and physical therapist would agree.  But it's sure tempting some days....

Another possible time limitation will be trying to sort and clear out some of the things in our home.  Changes will be coming but I'm not sure when.  We have too much stuff!

Yesterday it snowed.  It was cold and beautiful.

Today, well, this afternoon, it's much colder even though we have clear skies and sun.  I sometimes think how bored I would be if every day were the same, always summer or always winter.  I love living in a temperate climate.  How about you?  Do you love the climate where you live?


Wishing you a good day!
--Nancy.

Bramble Blooms I, Unfinished

I'm a slowpoke (maybe the only one?) making Bramble Blooms I.  At the best of times I make decisions slowly and carefully, considering options and possibilities.  These days I'm low on motivation, energy, and creativity, so the decisions are taking longer and I find they may not be the best choices.  Anyway, with a May 14 deadline to post our finishes at the link-up on Audrey's blog, Quilty Folk, I put Bramble Blooms back on the floor for further consideration and decisions.

My Bramble Blooms and I were not happy with our first border efforts.  You can see them here.  The border is too wide at 7", the brown is too dark, the appliques make it too busy/are disjointed/just odd....   I will make it into a bed-sized quilt but I realized that adding two wide borders to a 21" x 28" center is not the way for it to become a bed-sized quilt.  I think this first border, at least, should be narrower, and then a wider border, or perhaps several more  borders of different widths. 

I didn't get any further than considering three other border colors and leaves for the applique (my daughter and the kitties are coming for an unexpected visit so I had to take the quilt up from the floor).  One of my problems is that I have too few mid-range fabrics but plenty of dark/intense colors and a good sampling of lights.... 

I think this red may be too bright, too intense?  I like it but I just don't think it's quite right.  (Yet.)  And do those leaves look "dotty" to you?  Well, if they were green there wouldn't be such a contrast against the red.  I imagined green leaves but only had two to lay on the quilt.  I cut the rest out of paper just to try out the arrangement/placement.  And what would I do for the next border of 4- or 9-patch blocks?!

Maybe a blue border?  In person I like the narrow red strip between the inner and outer borders but in the photo, not so much.  The green leaves show up not at all.  But off-white/cream colored leaves?  At first I said absolutely not but then realized that I could do anything I want--my quilt, my choice.  Do I want light leaves?  Do I want leaves at all, or some other motif?

And then there's this light, creamish border....  It looks too bland, I think.  All three of the borders in these photos are 4"-5" wide, so 2-3" narrower than the brown border in the photo at the link above.

It all comes down to making a quilt I like, not just a quilt that follows the prompts.  And yet, I know going with the prompts will stretch me creatively, so I don't want to disregard the prompts, either.  (A number of years ago I made another prompt-drive quilt with Lori's Humble Quilts Gwenny-Inspired Medallion Quilt-Along.  See it here.)

I don't know where this Bramble Blooms is going.  I kept thinking I would put solid arcs in red around the edges, not as big as the ones on the brown border, maybe half-circles or 3/4 circles that don't curve in at the bottom, but trying those out didn't seem quite right, either.  The quilt and I will figure this out, sooner or later.  I appreciate Audrey's comment, "There is no shame that some projects just take their own sweet time!"

If you have thoughts, observations, opinions, suggestions or any other comments, I welcome and would be thrilled to read them.  You probably notice something I didn't or have an idea that hasn't come to my mind.

You can see all the other Bramble Blooms participants' quilt here at Audrey's blog, Quilty Folk.  Thanks so much for hosting this sew-along, Audrey, and for the challenges and opportunities it's created for me to grow and push myself out of my comfort zones.  I feel a growth spurt coming soon. 

--Nancy.

Bramble Blooms and Little Outings

A few weeks ago Audrey posted the prompt for the final border for Bramble Blooms I.  I anticipated the repeated block but I did not anticipate 4-, 9-, or 12-patch blocks.  Her quilt looks fabulous with 12-patch blocks and so do several others I've seen online.  But mine?  I'm not so sure.  Does a picnic blanket or a gingham tablecloth come to mind?

I'm faced with two challenges.  The first is that I forgot to add a half inch to my measurements to allow for seams.  Right now what I have measures 40" x 48".  (Not 40½" x 48½"!)  The other challenge is that I want a quilt that is at least 60" x 80".  If there is only this last border, it will have to measure at least 10" on each side and at least 16" top and bottom or 32" divided two ways for the top and bottom borders

This is the first iteration, just playing, seeing how the colors look, etc.  The border squares in the photo are 3".  Much too large, far out of proportion.  So those are a no.  But what to do?  I feel like I've backed myself into a corner with the large appliques and that wide brown border.  Hmmm.

Maybe the quilt needs several narrower borders.  Maybe the squares won't have right-angle corners.  Maybe I should try a variety of reds, maybe without alternating lights.  Perhaps a medium width teal border, then 2" squares into 9- or 12-patches, and another border, maybe with applique.  Do you ever begin a quilt of your own design with strong ideas about how it will look when it's finished?  Me, too, but this isn't that process. 

I don't know what I'm doing.  I look at this and I think, "Oh my gosh, what have I done?"  At least I still love the center.  And I remind myself of Audrey's thought (paraphrased) that out of the three quilts in this series we're bound to fall in love with one of them.

I put this on the floor last week, took photos, and picked it up while my daughter and her kitties were here.  They're gone again and I have exactly two weeks to consider and hopefully make some decisions until I have to pick it up.  They'll come again in two Fridays. 

If you've read this far, thank you!  Please know that this post is a thinking-out-loud, rambling in my brain post, but I would love to hear (read) any thoughts, suggestions, or observations you may have for this quilt in progress.

The Little Outings

Our local library offers "culture passes" which are checked out like books and allow library patrons to visit various places of interest at no cost.  When we only want to spend an hour or two somewhere, it's great to have these free passes.  I suppose this tells you what I've been doing instead of sewing.

Two weeks ago we went to the Columbus Museum of Art.  It was a beautiful old building, and part of it still is, but they built a modern addition around part of it.  I love it when architects maintain the integrity of old buildings, but at least they didn't take down any of the old walls.  There's a section where the outside of the old building is now inside the new addition. 

This green and white quilt was on display.  The information called it "Sawtooth Diamond in a Square Quilt" and told us it was made of wool challis by an unidentified Amish maker between about 1910 and 1940.  The first photo is a detail of the quilting in the corners and the next is the whole quilt.  I think the quilting is an unusual motif on an Amish quilt.

This is part of the ceiling in the old building.   So much detail!  I'm generally not a fan of blues but they are perfect in this setting.

I think museum directors of Columbus love Dale Chihuly's work.  This is one of several pieces we saw at the Museum of Art.  I'm sure it has a name but I didn't see a sign.

This past Tuesday we went to the Franklin Park Conservatory.   It is a huge, mostly glass building filled with plants, art, and, at this time of year, there is a garden room with butterflies.  My photos of the butterflies and chrysalises did not come out well, but there were at least 50 varieties.  and because this post is so long, I'm not including many plants.

More Chihuly.  This was in a stairwell.  I think the circles are between 18" and 24" but they could be larger.  No small feat to invisibly suspend that much weight of fragile glass!

This is another Chihuly piece that was suspended from the ceiling.  They are individual shapes grouped closely together.  Thank goodness there's no wind in the building.

And the last Chihuly photo.  These shapes are at least 36" across.   They were beautiful!

The Conservatory is divided into rooms with various growing conditions.  I thought these orchids were beautiful.  They reminded me of old, aged silk. I took a few photos of other plants but this post is already so long....

Great news is that spring is in evidence all around me.  Daffodils, crocuses, forsythia are in bloom.  And many of the bushes have sprouts on them.  Have you ever noticed that spring turns green from the ground up?  First the grass, then flowers that are close to the ground then taller flowers, then bushes and shrubs, and finally the trees leaf out into green glory.  Isn't nature amazing?!

I don't know what kind of blooms these are--maybe witch hazel?--but I thought they were fun.  Almost like starbursts. 

We've had some sunny days, partly sunny days, and cloudy, rainy days these past weeks.  We've also had snowflakes and weather into the 60s.  An Ohio spring!  Except it's earlier this year than most years. 

Thanks for visiting and reading!  (And leaving comments, if you do.)

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Thank you for hosting, ladies.

--Nancy.

Bramble Blooms Again and Spring Green

Note: In real life, the browns and tans are lighter than in this photo.  (Which probably means that the other colors are also lighter.)

The center and first border of Bramble Blooms 1 are stitched and finished (though I often include the disclaimer to any quilt in progress, "unless I change my mind"). I don't think I will for this quilt, though. I would have to see some really big problem to decide to unstitch, recreate or create new, and then restitch.

I switched out the solid blue/grey fabric of the flying bird to a tiny, tiny gingham in blue and teal which I thought lightened the bird just enough to make me happy, and didn't change the color too much.  (See the previous blue here if you're interested to compare.)

I thought the blue/grey was just a tad too dark and I'm satisfied with this fabric for the large bird.  I left the smaller bird on the fence as it was, with the solid blue/grey fabric.

This is the tan/light brown fabric I used for the arcs.  I love that it has both red and blue in it.  It was the inspiration to use a blue for the birds.

One odd thing about the half-square-triangle corners at the bottom is that they are not the same. 

I made the one on the left first by cutting a rectangle background, then cutting it diagonally two ways.  For some reason it didn't occur to me that the resulting X would be more like an X and less like a + turned 90 degrees.  I now know that a rectangle will not create a quarter-square-triangle block.  I used a square background piece for the block on the right and decided the two were close enough to use them as they were.  It is an improv quilt, after all!

Audrey will probably post the next prompt in coming weeks.  I try to imagine what it might be:  blocks of our choice, or blocks she suggests?  Another border with appliqued letters?  Or ...?  Will she recommend a color from the ones we've used, or a new color?  We'll see soon enough.  For now, I'll take a little break from Bramble Blooms.

The exciting spring green around here is this ice cream carton of Sweet Woodruff.  Actually, there are two cartons!

In October or November I put several small Sweet Woodruff plants into two large ceramic pots, then dropped one as I moved it.  The best I could come up with to hold the plants and soil were two plastic ice cream cartons with some rocks in the bottom.  I honestly didn't think they would make it through the winter.  Part of the time they were outside but I brought them into our breezeway when it got really cold.  The plants in all three pots looked dead two weeks ago.  Not one to give up, I put them outside to get some sun and fresh air when the warm weather arrived, and left them.  And then it rained, and then it snowed.  I thought, I hope the snow insulates and protects them.  When the snow melted, the pots were waterlogged but there were bright green sprouts coming up in the two plastic pots.  Hooray!  Sadly, the plants in the ceramic pot look like they didn't make it.  This spring I need to just do it:  dig some holes and plant these little ones.  I'm just so pleased to see all that green.  The little pot I have inside is also growing well so that can get planted outside, too.

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Thank you for hosting, ladies.

I hope you have a have a great weekend.
--Nancy.

Well, I Don't Know....

Here's my Bramble Blooms so far.  The birds are not appliqued yet because I'm still adjusting the placement of the larger bird.  I think the birds' color is okay but I wish I had a print fabric in a similar shade/tone to give a little more interest and depth.  (Or maybe the bird should be grey?)

I don't know....  I never know about fabric choices until things are stitched down, at which point it's a little late to make changes (unless I want to devote hours and hours to unstitching and restitching again). 

At first I thought about green pickets but when I got ready to sew them, they just seemed wrong.  So I went with the cream/tan/pink print ones.

I'm looking at this as a learning experience.  If I were to remake this quilt, what changes and improvements would I make?

If I make another version/variation, how would it be different?  Would I change colors, or motifs, or placements?

I'm learning how unbrave (cowardly?) I am with color.  I tend to go for "safe" colors.  Maybe that makes for a boring quilt?

In the photos above, the lighter browns in the middle photo are more accurate to the in-person browns.

As always, I'm thrilled to read your comments, thoughts, and observations about this part of Bramble Blooms (or any other quilts I'm working on and post about).  I always appreciate that readers see and notice things I don't.  Thank you.

It shouldn't take me long to stitch the birds when I finally begin.  At least I'm mostly caught up for the next prompt when Audrey posts about it in coming weeks.

Two weeks ago it seemed like spring was coming along nicely, and then that Friday we had a wonderful snowstorm.  It took a few days to melt and we had spring weather again. This morning I awoke to several inches of snow.  Even with the snows, it seems like Phil's prediction of an early spring might be more accurate than not.  The prediction for several days next week is in the 60s and for 71 degrees on March 4. 

I hope you're having a good weekend!
--Nancy.

More Scrappy Stars and Bramble Blooms

I'm making more scrappy stars because...

I have a container and a stack of small scraps.  What a mess!  The yellow box on the left is filled with triangles of all colors and sizes.

I'm sorting the triangles by warm colors (reds, yellows, oranges, and the purples that lean toward red), cool colors (blues, greens, and the purples that lean toward blue), and pale/pastel/natural colors.   

This is leader/ender sewing but I have to keep cutting to have enough triangles to sew.  I'm working on the warm colors first.  Red stars on white, as in the first photo, or white stars on red?  I have a lot of triangles to sew together before I have to make a decision.

I'm also cutting 1½" squares for the Tiny Nine-Patch blocks from the pile of scraps on the right in the second photo.  I hope to keep up with those to finish with the sew-along.  The triangles will be a longer-term project.

And then there's Bramble Blooms.  I finally finished stitching the brown borders on Monday.  I got up Tuesday morning with the intention of cutting the arcs from tan/light brown fabric so I could begin stitching them but my indecision got the better of me.  (Or maybe the quilt's not talking to me?)  What fabric/color should those arcs be? 

I tried red arcs and they disappeared against the brown.  I tried green and the same thing happened.  I pulled out some blues-leaning-to-teal but they looked awful.  I finally decided the tan arcs would work after all, so I cut and prepared two.  And they're also awful!  Maybe it's the wrong tan, or maybe that color range is wrong (but which would be right)?  Or maybe they're too big?  Too high?  Too wide?  Or maybe the "legs" of the arcs are too wide?  Or...?  (For perspective, the top and side borders are 8" wide and the bottom border is 9".)

My daughter suggested gold but that wasn't quite right.  And then I thought, since I've used white paper to get an idea for placement, maybe I should try the background fabrics behind the flowers.

Nope, that's not right, either.  Maybe I need to change the applique but I don't have any good ideas....

So this is where I am with Bramble Blooms.  And after I finally decide the color/fabric for the arcs, I'll probably need to reconsider the fabric/colors for the "pickets."  Or maybe small arcs all the way around.  Or...?

I was grateful to read in Audrey's recent post that it will be at least a few more weeks before she announces the next prompt.  Maybe—I hope—I will be ready!

We've had a week of sunny days and warmer temperatures.  It's been wonderful!  It almost makes me think Punxsutawney Phil could have been right this year and we'll have an early spring. 

I'm linking this post to Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework.  Thank you for hosting, Cynthia.

Thanks for reading and thank you for any comments.

--Nancy.

Nine-Patches, Bramble Blooms, Weather

I declared my interest in participating in Taryn's Tiny Four Patch sew-along but I haven't signed in to Facebook to see what's going on.  She's also hosting this on Instagram. 

I already had some 1½" squares in autumn colors that I'd been sewing into four-patches.  They are really scrappy, as you can see.  (Maybe I'll start making some less scrappy ones....)  I'd been trying to decide what to do with them and when I saw this sew-along it seemed like just the thing for these squares.  The blocks in the original quilt finish at 1½"--teeny tiny--compared to my 3" blocks--small.   But Taryn's open to participants sewing any small size.

The setting of the original quilt has the blocks on point with white between.  How would these blocks look with a gold print between, or some other autumn color, do you think?  Or cream, always a favorite.  I'll need to make over two hundred nine-patches so there's no hurry for a decision.  I'm aiming for 10/week which equals 40/month, so in about 5 months I should have enough for a bed-size quilt.  We'll see how it goes.  (I just calculated that 200 9-patches will require 1800 squares!  I might not have enough scraps!)

I'm still dithering about Bramble Blooms decisions.  I cut and sewed the teal border and that's it so far.  (No excuses here but my daughter and her kitties were here and my husband has been using the kitchen table where I cut large pieces.  It's not that I've been putting it off.)

I'm stumped on the borders without the arcs.  I only ever thought they would go on the right side and bottom.  But what to do about the other side and the top?  I thought about stripes, similar to but not like above.  Like a fence, maybe?  And on the other side are brambles?  I really can't think that those arcs/arches all the way around would be a good idea.  Another thought just occurred to me:  move the upper "pickets" on on the left to the bottom beside the bramble arc and leave maybe three pickets up the left side.  But that still leaves me with an empty upper border.   Leaves?  Birds?  What?

And then there's the question of that brown border.   Will I be able to recover from so much darkness in the next border?  Maybe I should go with a light border.  Oh, how I don't know what I'm doing.

Of course, I still need to decide what color and fabric the arcs and anything else I add will be.  But those decisions will depend on the border fabric....

Most of the quilts I make are made one step at a time, not knowing the end at the beginning, and I decide the next part of the quilt as I go along, but most of my quilts are made of blocks.  And I can always take as much time as I want to make decisions. 

But wait, I really am having fun.  A challenge can be fun, right?  I'm enjoying the challenges, just not the pressure of a time constraint.

On a different topic.  Do you cut away the fabric behind an applique?  I know one or two people who do and another one or two who don't. 

What about you?  I always have for several reasons.  First, because it's easier to hand quilt one less layer of fabric and, second, because I see that great expanse of usable fabric and think how it's going to waste.  What's your opinion and experience?  Leave it or cut it away?

The weather hasn't helped my energy—physical, mental, or creative—this week and last.  We haven't seen the sun since Monday, the 22nd.  No matter the time of day, from dawn to dusk, it has been grey or greyer and sometimes foggy.  It is beautiful.  It also makes me feel like sleeping for a few hours in the afternoon.  The weather forecast tells me tomorrow will be only partly cloudy.  I'm looking forward to seeing the sun!

I love winter when it snows.  There's still a chance for it this year.

I hope you're happy, healthy, safe, and enjoying whatever you're doing.

--Nancy.

Sweet Plants, Bramble Blooms, and Little Four-Patches

For Christmas my daughter gave me the delightful gift of three sweetgrass braids.  Aren't they beautiful?!  I coiled them into a wreath which I keep out whenever the kitties aren't here. 

When I am near them, their sweet fragrance reminds me that spring and summer aren't so far away. 

Even when I'm unmotivated I feel the need to keep doing.  It's a rare time when I just sit and do nothing.  At times like this it's good have fabric already cut and ready to sew. 

I've been sewing 1½" four-patches for a while with nothing in particular in mind.  They're mostly autumn/natural colors with cream/off-white alternate squares.  I'd been trying to decide what to do, whether to leave them as four-patches, sew four together, or turn them into 9-patch blocks.  And then Taryn of Repro Quilt Lover started the Tiny Nine-Patch Challenge to make little 480 9-patch blocks this year.  (Her squares are cut at 1", so very tiny.)  It didn't take me long to decide to join.  It will be easy enough to turn these 4-patches into really scrappy 9-patches.  Will I succeed at making 480 this year?  That's 9-10 per week.  We'll see.

Bramble Blooms is often on my mind and I'm feeling pressure to make decisions.  The kitties will arrive on Sunday and I'll have to have it off the floor before they get here (so they don't use it as a skating opportunity). 

All the while I was stitching the center I was thinking of arcs in a border.  I didn't know what the prompt would be for the first border and was glad to see it included applique.  Thinking of arcs was as far as my mind went.  I didn't consider what the background color behind them would be or how many there would be or whether they would surround the whole block.  So I've been playing. 

I love the teal surrounding the center and I think I like the arcs, though maybe they should be a little more uniform in shape and size.  Or maybe not arcs but something else.  (I have no idea what.)  That blue star on the circle will go.  It's too distracting!

Below, the narrow teal border gets brown all the way around.  But the arcs (or not)?  Cream/off-white like the center background fabrics?

Maybe red arcs?  Red on brown?  Maybe a dark red stripe for the quarter square triangles in the upper left?  Maybe fewer arcs?  And on how many sides?  Or no arcs?

Or maybe cream fabrics, or cream with prints for the arcs, or even red-print arcs?  I thought the prints were distracting and I didn't think the one with red on it worked.  It looks pink. 

But wait, maybe a narrow teal border with a wide cream border?  I could make red arcs.  Or brown.  But is it too bland?

Oh, wait again.  What about a narrow brown border with a wider teal border?  I love teal but maybe not that.

I'm leaning toward a narrow teal and a wide brown border. 

I'll have to figure out the arcs--color, size, and whether on one side or two, three, or four.  Or no arcs and something else instead.  But what, if not arcs?

I also need to decide about the quarter square triangles.  I'm thinking of using the same fabric as the border with another fabric for the strips between the triangles.  Maybe--maybe one of the greens I used for the flowers.  Maybe.  Or maybe that for the square in the center.  Lots of decisions yet to make.

My concern is this:  What happens next?  What will I do on the next border after such a strong color on the first border?   How would it look to have a light border next to the brown?  Or next to the arcs, for that matter?  Or how would it look to have another dark border next to the brown?   Heck, I don't even know what the prompt will be for the next border!

I have lots of decisions to make and I'd like to make a few of them before Saturday evening.

Can fun be stressful?  Does it always have to be relaxing?  I'm enjoying this process and I think I'm having fun. 

Both the dried sweetgrass at the beginning of this post and the sweet woodruff, below, smell like sweet clover.  It's such a refreshing fragrance to me.

If you've visited here before you may remember this pot of sweet woodruff.  It's grown a lot since I last posted it, and I'm so pleased that it's grown, even it if is getting a little leggy.  (That dead stem on the left was a cutting I stuck in the soil hoping it might root.  It didn't.)  If the plants in the pot survive till early April, I can put the pot outside again and plant in May.

I'm linking this post to
>  Finished (or not) Friday at Alycia Quilts
>  Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
>  Off the Wall Friday at Creations at Nina Marie's blog
Thanks for hosting, ladies.

--Nancy.