Burning and Stripping

My bee is doing a row by row quilt, each member makes a row a length of their choosing, with fabrics they like, put it in a box and swap with the other bee members, until each member has contributed a strip to each persons box. We are getting down to the end, and will be getting our boxes back at our March bee meeting. We are all excited. This is one strip I made. Three more to go, yes, I am always behind.



We have discovered outdoor burning. We live in a relatively rural area outside Atlanta, so we can do it, when we obtain a "Burn permit" It is so cool to cut down scrub trees and fallen branches and not have to lug them to the dump, where the bin is always full. This picture has Clare coming and checking the area out.

She gets especially excited nowadays because our neighbor who owns the 10 acres next door, has decided to bring his horses to live on the property. They roam about freely, and Clare thinks she should be allowed to chase them freely.
We do beg to differ.

What to do with this....

Ever make something that you always wanted to try, and then once you finished it, you thought, "hmmm, not perfect". Well, this was it! I hesitate to call it anything, my daughter loves it(she's not a quilter), but do I quilt it, frame it or make a pillow out of it (outsized pillow, of course), but what??? I have to decide to do something, it has been sitting on my design wall for months, just saying to me "I am not perfect". Granted the picture is small, but I see the big error, why can't everybody else.

I digress. We have been thinking about clearing the trees out of the backyard, to make a grassy usable space, for maybe a wedding reception, or just a place to have in the backyard that is not woods. Of course, it is expensive, but in this economy...what to do?

I went to a "book club". It was okay, but I guess I am a little crazy, but if you have a book club you should spend the time talking about the book, right? Not all about your next trip to Vegas so everybody can say "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". They were all very nice, and very kind to us newbies, but I guess I am too much of a control freak to like their format.

Tonight is my quilt guild meeting, am looking forward to the new place we got to meet. It is large, has a good PA system, and we will have a guest lecturer, I am sure a great time will be had by all.