Pink Trees & Hexie Blossoms!

Every spring I just wait for the trees to bloom.

This year they are not holding back!

While pink dogwoods are my favorite, I’ll take any pink blooming tree from cherry to redbud to whatever this gorgeous thing is.

It doesn’t matter – as long as it is pink.

There is a pink blooming weeping willow looking tree on my way from home to the inn, and each spring I cheer it on…I don’t know its name, it’s just beautiful.

This tree was so heavily laden with blossoms that I had to walk over and get some up-close photos before getting back in my car.

I was at medical appointment number three for the day. Yes – my two appointments ended up with a third one. What’s one more? Just get it done.

Does anyone know what kind of tree this is?

And I really like the colors in this photo – the pink, the almost “gold” shade of the leaves, and the green grass beyond. Quilt plan, maybe?

Appointment number one was a simple blood draw. It’s twice yearly to monitor my diabetes. But I also have discovered a lump about the size of a grape just below my right clavicle. Nothing showed up that high on my last mammogram in January – so this is a weird thing.

I was given an order to go over to the hospital for an x-ray at my earliest convenience.

I already had a pap scheduled as appointment number two an hour away (My local clinic doesn’t do them) and while driving came up with a plan to just swing by the hospital on my way home.

That’s where I spotted this lovely tree.

X-ray results should be back at my clinic when we discuss the results of my blood draw and see where things are with my A1C and other things net week.

So now we wait. And no matter what, at least we are on the path to finding out what we need to do next, no matter what it is.

I’ve been working on my hexies more as my evening handwork.

I’ve been using this old cookie tin (I have no idea where the lid ran off to!) in my lap as I work. It holds everything I need.

These motifs have been stitched on previous travels and are ready to have their neutrals added –

I’m storing these in a cute and quilty Summit St. Box from Summit St Shop!

I have kitted up some in snack baggies with enough neutrals to do the job. As this quilt will be machine quilted when I am done, I have no problem working with squares instead of trimming corners to make them actual hexagons. There is a bit of excess seam allowance on the back this way, but it doesn’t bother me.

I’ve kitted up the aquas too so I can plan and grab and go when it comes to hexie stitching opportunities.

I’m headed to Idaho to visit family on the 29th, and this makes for easy planning of what will come with me.

I laid out the completed motifs to see what I needed to finish the next diagonal row. It looks like I need one more large one with aqua around it to have enough to start stitching this row together and add it to the mothership.

It feels like it’s slower going than the hand quilting – but it’s good to have something else going just for the sake of doing something else in the evenings!

Did I ever mention that this is also inspired by a tile floor seen on one of my travels?

There are quilty inspirations all around us!

Today’s macular/retinal specialist appointment in Boone will have me dialated up one side and down the other so it’s not likely that I’ll be doing any machine sewing today – it will take a few hours for that to wear off. But by evening you know where you’ll find me –

Feet up in my comfy chair stitching more hexies.