Memorial Day Weekend and Then July 4!

How can it be that this year is almost half over?  I guess I had not realized that until a friend told me about getting her house all decorated with red/white/blue things for Memorial Day this week-end.  Wow!  I had not even realized it, and that's unusual for me.  I usually have all my patriotic quilts out, and the little flags in the ivy pots on the front porch.  So......yesterday that's what I did!

Of course, I had to dig the patriotic quilts out from under all the Christmas quilts in the cedar chest!  That was no fun; neither was packing it all back up!  But r/w/b is now all over my house.  I just have to show you a few of them to get me in the mood. 

I love the panels above, but this one I made several years ago is
my absolute favorite!  The border between the stripe and navy
has the Pledge of Allegiance words printed.  

Little rack doesn't  fit in too well with other things on my piano,
but I wanted the little quilt there.  Those are half-inch blocks!

That's enough patriotic pictures for now.  I realize I missed one more I wanted to show, but I'll save that one for closer to July 4.  Of course, "My Blue Stars" from last year is on the guest bed

All this activity reminded me that I usually try to complete a new patriotic project before or at least on July 4.  Well, you well know what I've been working on this year; closets and my embroidery quilt!  No thought of a patriotic quilt at all this year!  However, hanging on the quilt rack in the sunroom is that crazy Moda Blockheads quilt top from last year, with all those little 6" blocks!  I just haven't been inspired to quilt it yet, but the thought came to me today that maybe if I laid the current project aside for a while, maybe I could get that r/w/b thing quilted by July 4 --- maybe!  I decided to put that thought out of my mind today; maybe tomorrow I'll reconsider.  It will be a pain to quilt, with every block different!

Earlier this week I finished a few more embroidery blocks, and I cut a lot more pieces today.  I may box them up until after the Moda Blockheads is quilted; maybe not.  Here's the finished blocks for this week.

Block 34 

Block 35

Block 36

Block 37

Block 38 

Seems like I'm doing more overlays and adding more colors lately, but of course, I'll mix them up with the first several blocks when I wasn't doing that as much.   I really do want to get some of them up on the design wall soon just to see what it is going look like, but that probably won't happen this week-end.

Can you believe the only time I've left my house in nine days is to feed the birds and get the mail? 

Guess I better hit the sack; it's been a long day.

---"Love"