Rainy day in Georgia-lina

South Carolina Peach Blossoms...

It is spring here but it is cold and wet!  I want to go to an country auction tomorrow but it is cold and wet!  Last time I went when it was like this we "mud-skated" across the field...I felt bad for folks trying to carry large pieces of furniture to their trucks!

There are a few quilts I'm interested in but mainly I want to check out all the sewing items.  She had a huge collection of thimbles - the real type.  Nice silver ones at the show last week were running $100 and up.  I have two antique thimbles that I bought at auction for half that and they work great for me...and they would be easy to carry across the mud field!

Class handpiecing block...in progress but so far loving the points!

I tried to explain to my dear husband that a thimble is to a quilter as a putter is a golfer...he has ten putters in our garage.   And since I am back to doing some hand-piecing I'll get more use out of the thimble than he will those putters...

And here is a glimpse at some of the new additions to the "stash."  The large Blue Hill orange backing is for my Halloween applique quilt!  Just need to sew on the borders and it will be a finish!  Having the back ready is a real incentive....

Spring day!

Down here in the southern U.S.A. I may complain bitterly about the long hot days of summer; I may miss the New England autumn colors; and periodically long for a just one winter snow storm to dress the trees for the holidays; but there is no-place like the south for the springtime!

First, it lasts a long, long time.  There were daffodils in my front garden the last week of February.  Various Azaleas and flowering trees have been in bloom since mid-March.  And today my Iris and rose bushes started blooming.  Three months of spring!

Today it is sunny but cool so I can actually enjoy the deck with the pets.  Though I don't do as much in the garden as I used to today I can enjoy it with out guild as the yard crew came by and did in an hour what would take me a week!

I also rotated some of the quilts up on the wall and this little English Paper-pieced Grandmother's flower garden is now up in the wall of the guest bedroom....

The quarter/coin gives an idea of how small those pieces are! I made this quilt 13 years ago...my eyes were better then!

Spring makes me want to work with pastels or bright colors!

I have several projects that fit that requirement (like the row of crayon quilt above that is all ready for quilting or the material obsession that need binding) but I am battling the urge to start something new!

That may be part of the "spring" fever thing!