More Projects Done In June

I took this table runner class last week. Finished the handwork on Friday. It is called Pride and Glory and I really like it.

And yes, I do keep it at this angle on the table. I think it looks better this way. This is all squares and half square triangles. I was able to make it totally out of my stash of fabric. Love when I can do that.

I made a second one of these and gave it to Reid. He wrote and told me he really liked the one I had made for our home, so thought he would enjoy having one. And besides...

I had made this table runner for Melissa. Hope they enjoyed their surprise package. As soon as I saw this material with the color green, I thought of Melissa so bought it and made this.

Christmas Quilt is Finally Done

Five or six years ago, Annette and Monica came to stay a couple of days with me in Maple Valley. We went to the Sew Expo in Puyallup where I bought a kit to make a Christmas Quilt.

I finally felt competent enough to try and make it this year. It came out great! I had Tommye use her long arm quilter to guilt it as it was WAY to big for me to try on my machine. It measures about 52x72.

I love snowmen and at Christmas time, my house has lots of them up. This is going to add greatly.

I had fun doing it.

I just spread it over the bed in our Hawaii guest room to try and get pics of it as I didn't want it on the floor to collect dog hair. This may be where I display it at Christmas.

June!

June has come and I just finished the June Button Up Quilt today The pattern for this was done in some pretty dark colors which I didn't care for so I brightened mine up. I did this from my stash of fabric except for the pink border. I really like how this came out.


Like the picture, we have flowers blooming all over the yard. The back grass area is a meadow mix and has lots of flowers in it. Also, the winds have come and some warmer days. I think we got to 90 once but mostly in the 80's so far. Yes, Seattle has been warmer than us for several days! Of course, with the wind comes the dust and the pollen. Thank goodness for air conditioning. Rocky doesn't like the wind. When we let him in the house, he goes and hides in the laundry room. It's the darkest room in the house and he seems to like sleeping in there.


We don't have any birthdays or holidays in June (except Flag Day) and of course the 9th would have been Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary. I surely miss them both.

Clouds

Last week, we had clouds roll in almost every afternoon. These photos were taken on two different days. These first were middle of the afternoon and the later are evening at sunset. Rick and I really enjoyed going out on our porch and watching the changes.

You can see the verga (rain not hitting the ground) here. We did get a few showers but mostly the verga.

Sunset came and the Adobe Mese became a brilliant red. My pictures didn't come out really great so just posted the clouds.