A Change of Plans in Black and White

I left the second black and white leftover quilt blocks on my design wall for a few days and decided that I wasn’t loving what I had done because it felt chaotic and didn’t make any sense. I played with a different layout of alternating black and white zig zags and I like it so much better. So I sewed it all together and added the borders.

This ended up about 56 x 65 or so. A bit of a modest throw size quilt but it would be good to snuggle under while watching a movie.

Yesterday afternoon I started sewing together the blocks for the first black and white quilt top. My sewing time was cut short when Bruno threw up a whole spool of thread he had found on the floor under my sewing machine and eaten, along with all of his dinner. I won’t share the photo of the aftermath here. It’s a bit hard to believe that he could actually swallow a spool of thread. It’s possible he got it into his throat and it gagged him. At any rate, he will not have free roaming access in the sewing room . There are just too many things for him to get into… the scrap basket, two garbage cans, blocks on the design wall. I’m actually keeping that door closed during the day as well. Puppies. Geez. It’s really a good thing that he threw it up!

I made a trip to my long arm quilter last week to pick up my friend’s Australian Aboriginal economy block quilt. I absolutely love this one!!!

You really do need to see it close up to see all the gorgeous detail of the fabrics.

And the backing is just brilliant!!!

Here’s a closer look of the back and binding. That binding fabric is one of my favorite of these fabrics.

I just love all those gorgeous jewel tone fabrics! And the Aboriginal fabrics sparkle! My former co-worker that I gifted the bag to said the fabric reminded her of the night sky.

I tried really hard to convince my friend that she should just give that quilt to me. She didn’t seem to get the hint. I’m holding out hope that it will arrive back here around my birthday or the holidays.

Bruno continues to grow way too fast! I grabbed this photo of him with Rico a few days ago to mark his 16-week birthday and to celebrate spring with my forsythia.

My mom absolutely loved her forsythia. The yellow blooms were her indication every year tat spring and arrived. I have so many Easter photos from my childhood in front of our forsythia.

This video just makes me laugh! Bruno absolutely loves going for our walks and thinks I’m very slow to get moving!

Bruno got to go on his first off leash run on the edge of the forest last week. I did have a long line on him in case I needed it, which I didn’t. He was so good! He stuck around, checked in often and came when called. He had such a great time!

We were all happy to get out on a beautiful day! Here’s a video of Bruno and Rico running together.

Bruno had a visit with some former co-workers last week. They had been wanting to meet him. He got completely loved up!

He definitely loved all the attention.

Lambing season has started and I’ll be heading down to Molalla, Oregon, tomorrow to spend the day in my happy place. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for some fresh lambs in the morning.

I just love all the schedule flexibility and luxury of time I’m finding in retirement!

My knee is so much better! I’m back to playing pickleball and am nearly at 100%. It feels so good to be out there moving my body again after a few weeks of inactivity. The dogs are happy to have me back and active again too!