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A Stroll in the Garden

“All you need is love and a cat.” – Unknown

Iris

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Iris

“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” – Bill Dana

Goat's Beard

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” – James Herriot

Verbena

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” – Sigmund Freud

Geranium

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer

Geranium

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.” ― Charles Dickens

Snow in Summer; Cerastium

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Snow in Summer; Cerastium

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” ― Hippolyte A. Taine

Calendula

“Cats leave paw prints in your heart, forever and always.” – Unknown

Floral Reflections, Kallie

Kallie

RIP

March 01, 2017 – June 21, 2021

A Stroll in the Garden

Peony

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Clematis

Coral Bells

Coral Bells

Don’t just learn, experience.
Don’t just read, absorb.
Don’t just change, transform.
Don’t just relate, advocate.
Don’t just promise, prove.
Don’t just criticize, encourage.
Don’t just think, ponder.
Don’t just take, give.
Don’t just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don’t just hear, listen.
Don’t just talk, act.
Don’t just tell, show.
Don’t just exist, live.
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Peony

Peony

Weigela

Weigela

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

Patriotic Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

As you can see from the photo above, I had a plan for a pieced border, and I had carefully cut all of the pieces.

Courthouse Table Topper

Too bad that I wasn’t as careful as I thought when actually piecing the borders! By the time that I realized my mistake, I decided not to have a cry and a do over. I decided to just go with it.

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

It isn’t a masterpiece…it is a table topper…exactly what it was meant to be.

Courthouse Table Topper

And it is finished.

Courthouse Table Topper

I chose to quilt with the pantograph, Blue Star, from Urban Elementz. I don’t have a long arm set up, but I do have a Grace frame with a Juki set up. I am not good at it, but I try.

The fabric is busy, so the quilting design doesn’t show up well, but here is a close up:

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

I am embracing it.

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

Quilt On!

Part One

Part Two