Three bushels plus + + +......

My girlfriends and I spent a day together working on some Laura Heine projects.  My project is the Phoebe flower which will use up some of the fabrics I bought on our two-day shopping excursion.  I pretty much just got my pattern traced onto my background and all my pieces traced onto Steam a Seam 2.  

I am getting anxious to find the time to get moving on this project, but other things are calling my name first.  

My friends are working on a bumble bee (which will be gorgeous upon completion, too)

Some other summertime activities have been canning three bushels of tomatoes with my daughters and daughter-in-law.  We toned it down a bit this year from our 4 1/2  bushel last year, but we all walked away with the amount of quarts that we wanted. In total we got 63 quarts. 

After getting that completed, I picked up an knitting UFO that had to be set aside for one reason or another.  One of the things holding me back was a stitch or two that I really didn't like the looks of, so.....I decided to drop some stitches to get to that bad stitch to see if I could fix it. 

Creating a "run" in a new project  was a bit scary as I had to go several inches back.

But.....

it worked out great.  You can't even tell where I dropped those stitches.  I love YouTube for showing me how to do this. 

Now to keep going on this sweater so that just maybe I can wear it come this Fall.

Then there was the Woodward Dream Cruise (hubby's hobby).

Here are just a few of the cars I saw and was able to get pictures of before they whizzed by.

They sure had great weather for the Dream Cruise and after a week of running down to Woodward, ....just like that....it is all over. 

Then there was finally some time at home that I could get to another customer quilt. 

This one is called "Evening Blooms" by Blackbird Designs. 

I so would have loved doing a custom job on this one, but the customer requested an e2e, so I used the pantograph called Denise's Rosebuds.

I think any quilting on a quilt makes it come to life and this one certainly turned out well. 

It's done and on its way home to California as we speak.  I sure hope my customer loves it.  

Now to start digging into that charity room.  It needs organizing and I need to start making some kits for the first guild meeting that is coming up.  So, stay tuned for a tour of the charity room before I get buried in there.