A Friday Catch-up (but yea, I know it's only Thursday!)

I have had it in my head all day that it is Friday, but it is one of the good things I am wrong about!  Though most people long for and look forward to Friday, I am much the opposite.  Monday is much more appealing.  The busyness of the weekend is over, and the kids are back to school.

It's been a busy week.   Tomorrow will be no different.  Frantic at times trying to finish (OK, that is a huge stretch, but I do need to get the quilting to a suitable stopping point either tomorrow or Monday so that the quilt can come off the frame).  This means that there are no large unquilted areas, and any area I have marked is stitched, as I will be removing all of the blue pen.  I don't want to leave it on the quilt for the next 3 months.  I anticipate getting back to finishing the quilt in September.  Today marks day 9 of quilting on the silk quilt.  My mind really needs to work on something different. Fifty hours of staring at the same quilt is enough.  Today I started on the teeny-tiny fillers.  Three of the four corners are just about done (if you don't count the part I have to rip out!...Frog, as the quilters say.  I am not in the least bit thrilled that I have to rip out fourteen stitches to the inch silk thread, on silk fabric.  Seems a tad risky.  Foolish might be a better word.  I will look carefully from further than 6" when I get it off the frame and see if it is really necessary, though I suspect I already know that answer.

These are both variations on fills I have done before, only they have been micro-filled.  The top picture has the 1/2" interlocking circles (CC), but I filled in the space.  I'm not sure why I did this, because I used it on Big Bertha and kind of didn't love it.  Did I not learn my lesson??!  Below, I have a variation on clam shells.  They too are filled to give a dense background.  It was all going pretty well first thing this morning until I realized I'd densely filled a section that I had not added a band of pearls (circles) to.  Frig!...Talk about ticked...Thank goodness the back of the quilt is not silk - otherwise I wouldn't stand a chance of getting the stitches out!  The silk radiance is truly gorgeous, but on the flipside, it is a solid fabric so there is nothing whatsoever to hide blemishes in the quilting.  Kinda glad my next quilts are fun with some print!

I have this tree in my yard.  It's a crab-apple.  It's the sweetest smelling, most Fragrant and gorgeous tree for about 1 week each year.  I'll leave you with this picture.  It just makes me happy.