Yesterday was a busy day – I was outside bending and stretching trying to protect the berry plants from the 28 degrees it was to get to last night. I write my post in the evening and schedule it for early AM so I don’t know what it got down to last night but here is my ghostly garden after getting the freeze sheets and freeze bags out. (ordered on Amazon last year) I have 4 blueberry plants that are tiny and those got covered with mulch, the rest have bags covering them and then the frost sheets over the strawberries. Thank goodness it is a small garden and not long rows and rows of berries like some have.
I showed a lot of quilting on Hunters Star yesterday that had been done over 3 or 4 days and then I rolled it down on Sunday night after quilting – the end is in sight! Halleluiah! this one seems to have been taking longer than usual for some reason – I had to look and see how long I have been working on it so far – I started it December 22 so that is 3 months so far actually fairly close to usual but it seems longer – 90 hours so far of quilting in it. Two rows left to do. Linking to To-Do-Tuesday.
Searching for background fabric for the squares that the circle will be appliqued to. I actually had more than I had thought I did.
And the purple circle for the Mercantile quilt was glue basted down and will be ready to join the pile of circles that need to be applique
I had taken a couple of plants outside already, but threw towels over them last night. I hope your blueberries and strawberries are ok. Hunters Star is just lovely. I know it feels nice to almost be finished.
Hunter’s Star is soooo pretty! I hope all of your plants came through all right.
“Ghost garden” – lol! I brought in my two tomatoes that are still in the little pots I bought them in, and I covered 3 volunteer tomato plants. It will be interesting to see how those do. Love your Hunter’s Star – I enjoy seeing the different sections. I woke up last night worried about how I’m going to do the circle for Mercantile – lol!
Hope all the plants made it through the night okay! That’s great that you can see the end of the Hunter’s Star quilting. December doesn’t feel like it was that far back! I bet the applique for your Mercantile block will go quickly, especially since the edges are already turned under and glued down.
Hope your garden made it through the cold night! Our nights are still regularly 30’s and below! No gardens are going in yet. But plans are being made. Probably lots of greenhouse and windowsills are housing seedlings. Hunter’s Star is just remarkable! You are nearly there!
It was chilly out there this morning. Fingers crossed your coverings did the trick and you don’t have any damage from the freeze. What goes on the frame next once you get Hunter’s Star off?
When I saw the picture of your covered up plants, it brought back a memory from long ago….
When we bought our house 39 years ago, we created an garden bed in our front yard, and side yard, planting about a dozen azaleas…the first spring, when every plant was loaded with buds ready to bloom, we had a night predicted to have lows below freezing. So I covered all those young plants with white plastic bags. My husband was at a work meeting that evening and got home after dark. When he came in the house he said our front yard looked like a cemetery! All those white bags looked like little tombstones! Some of those azaleas are still living, and have grown quite large….one is probably close to ten feet in diameter…and that is after trimming it back every few years to keep it from overtaking the area!
I thought that the HS quilt must be getting close to done! Hope your plants all survived. It got cold here last night but the daffodils look like they survived fine.
Maybe that will be the last freeze of the season. Ghostly is a good description of what your garden looked like.
Hopefully your plants will survive. That’s a lot of quilting hours on Hunters Star but it will be such a lovely quilt for having been hand-quilted.