I'm still picking up debris around the yard from last weeks storms. The walking path I use is so littered with branches, I'm sure I look like the Prancercize Lady from a distance.
But that's not what happened to Mr. Moosebay.
| Mr. Moosebay and his shiny blue truck had a run-in with a tree last week too. There were so many storms and downed trees--in fact my brother's truck and his girlfriend's car were both totaled by a Maple tree on Friday--sad because I remember my Dad planting that tree. |
His truck is equipped with a back-up alarm AND a rear view camera.
Unfortunately, neither of those is useful when you leave the tailgate down.
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| Luckily the tree survived the encounter with the truck. |
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| The new tailgate has been ordered and will be installed later this week. I could buy a nice little sewing machine with the amount of money the are charging at the dealership! |
Because of the rain, I was able to get a bit of work time in at the sewing machine and finished my Vintage Schnibbles:
Dulcinea.
The larger pinwheels require two matching charm squares and I just happened to have three packs of matching American Jane. I removed the red and yellow charms (for another project) and I really like the way the green, melon and blue work together. This will be a fun table topper for the porch.
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| I wimped out on the pieced border and used up some blue fat quarter scraps. |
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| Solids from my stack of Riley Blake that I won from The Fat Quarter shop were the perfect colors! |
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| No fancy binding this time. I miss-cut the fabric I had left for the binding and had to piece in a charm square to squeak out the last few inches. I hate when that happens! |
I like the little detail that pieced square offers. As much as I like fancy bindings, I also like matching binding sometimes. This turned out great!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! I love the blue and orange. Did you machine quilt that? I envy those of you who can do such a nice job of FMQ on the machine.
ReplyDeleteI love that color combo; aren't you now eligible to buy that little machine--to keep you two "even steven"? (ROTFLOL) { We just got our semi annual car tax bill--yikes--there goes my traveling machine!!}
ReplyDeleteHugs, --oh, by the way--did you hear about the "Quilts for Calgary" project on Cheryl's "diningroomempire.blogspot.com" ? A very worthy casue..Julierose
Beautiful, the blue and orange go so well together.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding Dulcinea! I like that you changed up the charm pack a bit :-) Too bad about the truck. I hope you get a break in the rain!
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