Dear Jane & Gardens

I have been managing to stay in the mood making my Dear Jane blocks lately.  I started another last night and finished it today.  Moving right along!  I compared my time from making my first Dear Jane at 138 blocks to the second Dear Jane quilt and I have found that I am a heck of a lot faster making this one – 60 hours faster right now – I guess that means I really learned a lot making that first Dear Jane quilt.  But maybe it also means I should have finished the top by now!!  I would have I guess if I could keep my interest just on one quilt at a time.

Row 11 Block 9 "Insanity Revisited"

I got my patterns and instructions printed out for the BOM Star Crazy (located on side bar if you want to see it) but after working just a little while on it I decided to put it aside.  My cold is improving each day and a couple more  days and it will be gone but I was feeling just a little light headed I guess you could say and couldn’t concentrate.  I didn’t want to start cutting wrong so called it a day.  I might get to it tomorrow.

Instead I read a book – the book was not all that great and couldn’t hold my interest – it was an author I hadn’t read before and probably won’t again   This evening I wandered around the yard and took more photos of the plants that are growing.

Yucca flower spikes - these will be opening within a couple weeks. This is in the wild garden area and these yucca plants all grew from roots that we had missed. They are 3 years old and I was amazed to count 15 flower spikes. I will get a photo when the flowers open in a week or two.

This is one of the 10 Scarlet Maple trees that I planted last month. They all began as 1 1/2 foot tall twigs I guess you could say. Three of them are looking like this one, the others are not as good although 5 more are now budding out way down by the surface but not at the top. I will need to do a little pruning I think.

I dug about 10 ferns up from down in the woods last fall and planted them among the hostas here and there. They have grown larger than some I planted in the past. I'm not sure why they appear to be the same variety - only thing I can think of is that my shade in front is more dense than it used to be.

Back to quilting – I picked up the baby quilt earlier and did about 15 minutes of quilting and think maybe I need to get back to it.  I will look and see if anything is on the tv tonight.