Going Green

It feels so good to be able to post again.  They say everything happens in threes and April certainly had it's share of bad luck.  First on April 11 my sister's car was hit by a young man who ran a red light.  Her car was a write off.  Then my computer crashed.  I had it repaired and it crashed again so had to go shopping for a new one.  Finally on April 21 my car was hit when a young man took a turn too quickly and lost control of his truck. The side air bags and curtain airbags deployed and the car was deemed to be a write off.  Visits to the doctor and chiropractor have both of us on the mend but all the calls to the insurance company and looking for a new vehicles have taken up so much time.

But now it's May.  My sister has her new car on the road and I finally got mine on Thursday.  My new computer has Windows 10 and I'm becoming acclimated to the new system.

Amid the turmoil I was able to get a few pieces done.

I finished up the April orange, black/brown blocks and the green and brown May blocks for the 2016 RSC quilt.  In selecting the fabrics for the Geese Blocks I decided to make the column look like chevrons and I think that turned out okay.

I've decided that it's time to make fewer large quilts and work on a few minis instead.

This one was fun to make and used up a few of the pink and brown scraps in my buckets.  (I must apologize for the photo but I haven't loaded photo shop on the new computer so what you see is what I snapped.)

I also made a few Maverick stars in orange for April and green for May.  There isn't enough difference in colour value on the green block so I may have to scrounge for a few darker brown scraps or some brighter green bits and try to make a few more.  

It's the long Victoria Day weekend in Canada and that means doing some gardening so I'm off to dig in the soil and put in some spring colour.  The tulips, grape hyacinth and donkey's ear were lovely but it's time to put in some annuals now that the threat of frost is gone.

Hop over to soscrappy and see what other green has sprouted.