From Virginia With Love!

Yesterday’s over-the-porch-rail photo shoot complete with sunshine and blue skies!

It’s been a marvelous week with such wonderful weather – not counting the one and only day with rain which was needed to bring back the GREEN.

Everything is turning green. Like magic.

And guess what I heard down by the creek yesterday morning? PEEPER FROGS ARE BACK!

Sunbeams happen!

And they are shining brightly on our two Minnesotans so they can take some Virginia sunshine and spring warmth back with them as they begin their journeys home today.

The quilt on the left is Spring Garden, started on retreat.

Thanks for a marvelous week, March Quiltvillians!

I can’t wait for that dogwood tree to bloom –

See yo back here next year!

On my own studio time –

20 minutes of sewing to finish this batch, and then get them trimmed up. That was it. The rest of the day was running back home to give Mabel her meds and check in on her, waiting until Hubster Dave returned from his therapy and his swimming laps at the health center.

I did throw the bed linens into the washing machine, and then into the drier, but that’s not very creative is it?

Yesterday with folks visiting the studio, I was asked how many hours of sewing I average a day.

My response for yesterday was simply that. “20 minutes.”

There is stuff that has to be done also on Mondays like gathering up all of the retreat trash and getting it to the curb so the truck can come by at 8:30am this morning and pick it all up.

Dang it! All of those “life things” are interrupting my sewing time!

Photo of Hazel taken while ladies were visiting.

She knows a good quilt stack when she sees one!

Last evening, feet up and back to this.

Stitching neutral hexie borders is boring. No other way around it. The only thing that would make it more boring is if they were all the same fabric. Nope. Just Nope. Couldn’t do it!

But these will get there in due time – on an average evening I can add 8 to 10 hexies per evening. It’s slow, but it is what the quilt needs, so we just do it. I don’t have any other binding or hand work at present, so hexies it is.

Ivy keeping watch on my needle pulling thread.
Today is big time laundry day. New group comes tomorrow after noon.
And sewing at the machine is not likely to happen much today because we’ve got this releasing on Friday:

Do you remember my making Brookgreen in October?

Inspired by a tile floor design I found on my travels?

I had a wonderful time pulling rests, sand, neutrals and lovely greens together to make this one.

Be watching for Brookgreen to release on Friday 3/13/26 just in time for the green of St. Patrick’s Day while the hills around me turn green with spring.
And yes, there will be a Gift-Away!
I’ll be drawing for two winners who will each receive a Brookgreen PDF pattern from me along with a fabric roll prize from Cotton to Quilts.
I’ve been waiting for the winter weather to go away, and for the green of the grass to come back so I can do the photography for this one. I need it done in the next 3 days. LOL!
What’s up for your Tuesday?