Sunflowers, Sleeves and a Quilt Show!

More colourful petals were added to the sunflower in the centre of my project this week.  This picture will end up being a 12" circle so there is a long way to go still. I like the turquoise background--the colours in the sunflower really pop. 

I may not get as much cross stitching done this week as I have entered 9 quilts into our guild quilt show in early May and I need to hand stitch the sleeves onto 8 of the quilts. (the smallest one already had a sleeve). This afternoon, I made sleeves for 6 quilts and they are all pinned in place and ready to hand sew.  Guess what I will be doing for Slow Sunday Stitching this week???   Here is the information about the show for those of you who might be close enough to attend. 

I made two hot pads for the church Christmas Bazaar this week.  The sewing group will be making more on one of our sewing days and I wanted to make a couple of samples so they could see the finished product. 

It's quilt show season in our area and the first one of the year was in St. Mary's.  I attended with three friends.  We examined every single quilt in the show, did a little shopping, had lunch in the tearoom and enjoyed each other's company.  The quilts were spectacular and the turnout to the show was huge.  I think there was a pent up desire to attend a quilt show after three years of no quilt shows due to the pandemic. I especially liked quilts that included some machine stitching as well as hand stitching.  

Lots of tiny pieces in this "starry night" wall hanging. 

This baby quilt was just plain fun to look at.  I love all of the different textures in the animals. 

Our gardens have new things to look at every day.  It rained this morning and the sedum caught some of the water in the new leaves. 

At the beginning of the week, the azalea looked like this:

A day or two of sunshine and the flowers were in bloom!

Of course, more daffodils bloomed as well. 

Finn spent a day with his cousins, Skye and Kindle last weekend while my husband and I were out. Finn thinks he is the Alpha dog in this group.  

Another walk in Port Stanley this week. This is one of our favourite places to walk during the week.  It's busy on the weekends so we stay away then!

I will link up with Kathy in the morning.