Catching Up
1. These are half of the trees for the quilt that will be called Bill Goes to Paris. The designer of "The Avenue" is someone from Jen Kingwell's stable and I just love the idea. It's not hard to do, and the pattern I purchased came with templates. I will say that the part where the trees' trunks are inserted isn't efficient at all, but it's not exactly odious , and I can't think of a better way to do it. Those twelve trees will go in the handwork pile in the room where we watch television and I'll work on those funky trunk insertions over the weekend the next couple of evenings. I've cut all of the pieces for the remaining dozen trees and also for the background fabric borders. I still have to cut the pieces for the narrow, colored border. 2. Pick A Petal's binding is machined on and two sides of it are hand-stitched down. 3. Merricks Nth has emerged -- possibly only briefly -- from time out, and at last all of the Wiggly Worms element...
