Flower Pots & Quilts & More Good Progress

Quite a few little things to catch up on today, so I'll get right to it.

First of all, for any of you who are new, there are several of us who have joined together to see if we could make a quilt, or quilts, using only the stuff in our homes.. not purchasing anything new except for maybe the filler and backing if those were not on hand. And to have it completed by the end of August. If you look over on the sidebar, you can see all the ones who have actually finished theirs already. Their names are at the top of the list marked with**. The rest of us who are still plodding along are at the bottom.

And since last Monday, here are some more wonderful progress reports.. and some finishes!

Nedra over at Cactus Needle has finished this!

Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts finished this!

Busty LaRue has finished these!

Tine at Sodeste finished this..

HeatherB is coming along with this..

And Eileen at Eileen's Attic is r-e-a-l-l-y trying to meet the deadline.

Panic is setting in as I realize we only have less than two weeks. So I think I better just keep at this every minute.. and forget about everything else until its done. Well.. I'm still picking apart my wonky triangles, but that's just when I'm sitting and playing our nightly game of backgammon.
Here are a couple of progress pictures.. I'm hand quilting this in my frame that is set up behind the couch. I have a whole little area back here, it is also where my computer is and my bookcases. If you have totally forgotten what I'm working on, and I don't blame anyone who has, this is made from cut up old denim shirts, a bed sheet, and left-over patches from the Every Iota quilt I made last year. Plus some other scraps thrown in. The thread is brown cotton crochet, and I'm doing whatever comes to mind, with French Knots on the printed squares.



And I thought I'd show you this..(not quite sure why). This is a pretty good place to stick things that I really don't want to put all the way away just yet. Boxes and bags I might want to get into right away. This is underneath my quilting frame. I'm sure some of my friends and relatives are saying.. "Oh my!" And I'll probably hear about it sometime. But you might as well know the real me.

Also, just so you don't think the only things I have to plant flowers in are rusty and old.. I took a few pictures of some other pots in the back yard... this is a fairly new one..
and this..
These geraniums are being warned about behaving because...
this is what can happen to naughty planters that decide to take a dive off the deck when their keeper is away...