A Duck Day
As damp and wet as it is today, the ducks would have had a great time in the puddles.
An intense day was had in the studio. And . . . it all happened before twelve noon. All of the channel quilting and the stitch-in-the ditch has been completed on my purple wonder of a quilt. In all honesty, this is the first time I have used flannel for the backing. But this was perhaps the one and only time that everything would fall into place to use this beautiful purple plaid. For it being approximately 52″ x 72″, it’s not even the prescribed size for a twin sized bed. Perhaps I was just weary, but it sure feels heavy to wrangle under the needle.
I did put a few pieces of fabric on the quilt to see which would work best for the binding. That decision will be for another day. I have not decided what to stitch in the plain purple blocks. I feel more comfortable getting the binding on to cover all the raw edges now that I have the quilt trimmed of excess batting and backing. I did manage to get a 45mm replacement blade into one of my rotary cutters after nicking myself on both hands for a total of four times. It was a package of five blades. To prevent rusting, they have oil on them. I had tried to slide one blade off of the five. Man, were they stuck together. No serious injury was caused by this endeavor. I do have a cutter ready to be put into service.
When I came up at noon, Dennis and I shared a bite of lunch. We had planned on doing some tidy tidy in the potting shed this afternoon. With the rain showers and it being chilly, that got postponed.
With the rain, I do see some perennials coming up north of the patio porch. I’m not in any hurry to rake out some of the leaves and such until I see what made it through the winter. I do know my Fern Peonies, two plants, don’t have as many stalks coming from the tubers as in other years.
With that I will take my leave. ♥