Updates

It is day eleven of the 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge.   http://muppin.com/wordpress/index.php/the-31-day-blog-writing-challenge

We are having an unusual string of very warm days, so today will be another day spreading mulch and cleaning out the garden.  We put all of the sand and compost into the front vegetable garden yesterday.  "We" still need to rake out the sand, and then till it all in. (I don't actually run the tiller!)

I have spread about a third of the mulch.  Already this front bed looks so good!  I have thinned out many plants, and added things that will attract and sustain butterflies.  Some fennel is still green.

I always seem to have several quilts underway.  In additional to piecing the Orange Peel, I am cutting and preparing to piece a Tumbling Blocks.  I have decided to hand piece this, using the method that Jinny Beyer recommends.  You piece together in sections like this, doing the six pointed interior "star", and then adding the six outside pieces.

I have marked my seam lines on the dark fabric with a ceramic marking pencil, and on the light fabric with a standard mechanical pencil.  Why do this by hand?  That will be another blog post.