CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT--

 That Florida is under a hurricane watch for mid week?????  What--it is way too late in the season for hurricanes--isn't it????

I am still stocked up from last time--though I do believe I will go shopping tomorrow morning for a couple things and to get out and about before I am shut in for a couple days due to wind and rain!!!

So now lets talk about quilting--what have I been working on???

Got the next 6 churn dash blocks make up--this makes 12 blocks so far and I now have the next set of only 4 all prepared to sew together

Here is close up of the one print that I am using for the Hexie flowers --

And here is some I got appliqued to back grounds last week--have a couple more finished now and I will have 25 in total when done to play with for a quilt top

Now back to the top photo--the Churn dash blocks--here is a photo of one of the fabrics that came with the set of fabrics for me to play with--

see the lines in the fabric--they are totally faded out--no color left--it what I discovered when I went to use it on the new set of 4--luckily I had a solid color blue in the same shade I could use--this is one reason I rarely buy Walmart fabric (these fabrics where a gift sent to me back in May)

But I not only had problems with this blue--I also had 2 problems with the fabric I bought at the Quilt shop and paid $14 a yard for--

I had to work around some spots--some I could cover up with the hexie flower--but several I had to recut--luckily I had bought extra fabric--I also had this problem on a couple of the background squares-

It is hard to see here--but there is a flaw in the threads--!!!!

I have gotten this months bird block prepared and did do alittle stitching on it yesterday while watching the last NASCAR race of the season for 2022--and just before the race started they announced that Coy Gibbs had passed away in his sleep the night before after just watching his son Ty Gibbs win the X-finity championship for the year--Coy Gibbs is also Joe Gibbs son and Joe owns 2 race teams --and  Coy worked with the teams--Joe also lost a son 2 years ago to an illness--but they knew that was going to happen--!! Sad--Coy was only 49 years old!  And if anyone wants to know--Joey Lagono won the years championship in the Cup series ( I was hoping Christopher Bell or Ross C would win--Joey already had a championship!!!)

And I have been getting out and walking more and took some neat nature photos this week--

one day I captured a small butterfly feasting on the little snow flowers by the fence--

another day I had to walk around the block to the other side of the fence to get these photos--

And this 'flower' was there among them--I have 'no' idea what it is--anyone know????

And then another day I seen a pileated woodpecker on a tree across the street--but that photo did not come out well--

And then another day--I spotted this tiny vine type plant with the tiny pink flowers on it--

and the other night I took this photo out my window--

Notice--the sun is shinning--it is raining hard and there is a rainbow!!!

WELL--TIME TO SIGN OFF FOR TODAY--BE SURE TO HAVE SOME FUN AND LAUGHTER THIS WEEK AND THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT!!

HUGS, DI