Fresh Air

It rained last night, so we had lovely cool fresh air all day. All of trees just look so much greener, as though one little bit of rain could make a difference. We had a spectacular sunset--a variation
where the sun created a silver edge on the clouds over the western range.






Our indoor critters have their favorite places in the house--the princess on a lace tablecloth and the guard dog not about to miss anything out front. So nice that the window ledge is that perfect height.











I pulled out a quilt top made long ago from fabric donated by Free Spirit. I remember using a Sew Biz pattern, sans triangles, and making all the fabric work to use it up. It was fun to quilt with a big double flower. I managed to bind it and finish the binding on Just Strippy, too.












For a 6 Fat Pack quilt, I pulled out our old Little Baby Star pattern. It uses 4 of the fats for the star and pieced border, one fat for the inner border, and I think I can bind with the 6th fat plus scraps from the 4. The background is 1/2 yd.Some "Bare Roots" numbers for this quilt----Triangles: 2 7 7/8" squares, sliced once, from each of the four star pieces, plus 4 each of 4 1/2"x 5 1/2" for the border. Background: 4 7 7/8" squares sliced once for the triangles and 4 7 1/2" squares for the corners. Inner border: 6 2 1/2", which will need to be pieced. That's it--I think it took about an hour to piece.

And look at this fab pen from Sole Mates in downtown GV.Today's best....the Little Baby Star, although the pen score is a very close second.