One May Finish

 Sneaking in at the last hour for a May finish!  This one is for the local camp benefit auction at the end of summer - my scrappy sawtooth stars quilt.  About seven months from start to finish, mostly pieced during our quilt ministry meetings, using scraps from the ministry and my own piles of scraps. 

 No pattern, just 6-1/2 inch stars and pistachio & chocolate alternate blocks.  

Machine quilted on the Janome - simple stitch in the ditch around each block and then diagonal X through each block.  A bit of free motion stencil quilting in the outer border to finish.  The quilt measures about 75 inches square.  

We've had a lot of rain this week along with a few sunny warm days.  Thankfully the peonies have yet to fully open, but all our early spring flowers have been spectacular, especially these irises.  This is the first time we've had blooms since transplanting them into the little flower bed alongside the garage a couple years ago.

Hard to believe we had frost warnings last night, so had to haul all the hanging baskets, tomato starts, geraniums, etc. into the garage for safekeeping.  Fingers crossed that will be the last such warning until October!  Got my flat of marigolds into the garden today, hopefully tomorrow I can get at least some of the tomatoes in as well.

In my spare minutes, I've been thinking about BB-2 and rummaging through the bin where all the early fabric pull was dumped, along with a bunch of additional bits and pieces that have come my way since early spring.  

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!