Snowflakes in May

Yes.  You read that correctly.  Today, we had snow flurries.  In May!!!  I even wore my winter jacket, mitts and a hat this morning on my walk.  In May.   It can be cool here at this time of year but it has been many years since I remember having snow in May.

Speaking of snow, my snowflake quilt is done!

The quilting was done by Julie, a local long arm quilter and is a snowflake pantograph.

Finn assisted with the hand stitching of the binding...

Sometimes, he was not quite so helpful!

The backing fabric was purchased from the Quilt Kitchen in Exeter.  I called several quilt shops looking for some red and white snowflake fabric for the backing---this is not the time of year to be looking for snowflake fabric.  Luckily, the Quilt Kitchen had some on their sale shelf and she shipped it out to me right away.  It's perfect!  I sent her a picture of the quilt top to show her what it was going to be used for.

The red and white striped binding was in my stash, leftover from binding my tree skirt I made a couple of Christmases ago. You can see a wide variety of red fabrics were used in this quilt.

Finn also assisted with the photoshoot this morning as the snowflakes swirled around us.  It was unfortunate that my snowflake quilt was not the only snowflake outside this morning!

I am currently quilting my gray, turquoise and white quilt I showed a few posts back.  I hope to get back to it now that the snowflake quilt is done. The heart quilt top for Nova Scotia is put together now (by Christine) and I will be quilting it after this one is done.  I will post a picture of it next week.

I have three new types of daffodils in bloom this week as the first ones fade.

Daffodils are my favourite spring flower.

The tulips in the front yard just started blooming in the last day or two.

Finn enjoyed his after dinner walks this week.    I will be linking up with Kathy and the slow Sunday stitchers on Sunday morning.