Crow's Nest Finish

Crow's Nest

It's a finish!

40.5 x 54

Similar to a Churn Dash these 13.5 inch finished blocks are called Crow's Nest.  I used fruit and veggie prints for the backgrounds and red for the "crow's nest". 

Quilted simply on my DSM with lines. 

The backing and binding are also red. 

I guess those are clocks with wings...time flies!

The theme this month in my sewing space is March Madness (Quilting) Marathon.  I'm going to concentrate on finishing up a lot of the small tops I have in the TBQ (to be quilted) pile.  They will then be donated to:

Fostering Crossroads

Wrap - A -Smile 

Quilts Beyond Borders

And sew on...

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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

March 5 - I was celebrating that the trellis I've been making is still standing after some very high winds swept through here. 

We have a cement slab out back near the cutting and cottage gardens. Hubby used to keep a big telescope there until the neighbor's bull jumped the fence and decided to knock it over. Hubby couldn't find parts to fix it so slab has just sat empty for a number of years. The last couple of years I tried to grow a sunflower house around it but deer kept eating the sunflowers.  This year I decided to make a trellis for sweet peas around it. Then I will add a bench for a place to sit and smell the sweet peas and look at the gardens. Hopefully I can walk hubby all the way out there to enjoy some garden time. 

So. I've been trimming a patch of scrub brush that is mostly honeysuckle and elderberry saplings.  As I cut those I've been putting the shortest branches in a pile for my shelling pea supports. And the longer branches I've been using for my trellis stakes. 

And the trellis is made of hubby's old oxygen tubing (thank goodness he doesn't need any of that anymore) as well as tubing cut from his enteral feeding bags that I've been kind of weaving between those elderberry and honeysuckle sticks. (I've been saving the plastic cut from those feeding bags for use under mulch around plants).

 

Ok. So it looks kind of wonky  but when it is covered with sweet peas it will look and smell wonderful. Well, that is if the deer and rabbits and groundhogs and raccoons leave me some sweet peas. 

So anyway...cause for celebration. My trellis is still there in one piece. We had some really strong winds from the south for a couple of days and it even turned over a big plastic wheelbarrow I left near where I was working in that scrub brush patch. It blew around all the cardboard (packaging for hubby's formula that goes into those enteral feeding bags) I had laid out over a patch of weeds I want to kill that was covered over here and there with bricks. But my trellis is still standing! 

Oh, and I guess I can celebrate that I recycled so much stuff for garden use.