Hello all

Here is my latest quilting accomplishment.  I bought the fabric just less than a year ago as a summer project to take along on travels and the like.  Had it done by the end of the year but didn't machine quilt the panels until about the last two months on and off.  Finished it up a couple of weeks ago but just got pictures taken.  Tried something a little different on the sky.  Not really a stipple but what I'm calling a cloud stipple.  I'm fairly pleased with the outcome.  The original pattern of Alaska Wildflowers called for iron on applique.  Well, I just don't abide by that technique so I did it all by needle turn.  I embellished it a bit with some embroidery on the leaves and flowers and some beads in the middle of a few flowers.  Hard to see in the picture though.

Trying to machine quilt a salmon wall hanging but the bobbin winder on my embroidery machine broke in the bobbin winding position and the threads on the presser foot screw on my other machine are stripped so a presser foot doesn't stay on anymore.  Both are off to the doctor.

Life has been very busy lately.  Grades were due the first week of March and then we were off to Sedona for Spring break.  Other than the snow we had a good time.  Not much hiking though.  Then I got through organizing state conference and getting back to a routine in school.  Then the very next week I started working on a program for a conference that is occurring this week.  I promised last year as a return favor.  It was 24 pages so it took a good deal of time.  Now I'm getting all the yearbooks ready for distribution this week and finalzing grades next week for Seniors, a five day weekend in Sitka, followed by graduation, followed by finals and then school is over for the year.  Summer is going to be a bit busy as well.

Give me another week or two and I will have a final picture of the bathroom shower.  I got the tiling all done last weekend so hopefully this weekend I will be able to grout.  Wait a few days to seal and then caulk and install the shower door and it will be all done.  The shower has taken since Christmas to get finished, but as you can see from the synopsis above, I've been a bit preoccupied.

Until later . . .