Cspoonquilt

 Good Monday to you!  It's a beautiful morning here on the Central Coast!  A day to remember people and count our blessings!   Besides the good weather and the Holiday not much is going on here.  The usual Spring cleaning...but here and there I sneak away to my sewing room and have a little fun! This past week I've been working on a new sample for another class I will be teaching at our local Quilt Shop.  A simple design for beginners using flannels for a baby quilt.  I finished the top the other day and felt quite satisfied.  But then viewing it the next day decided I really did not like the two dark grey side borders.   So I auditioned some alternates... I'm kinda leaning toward the light tan... What say you? The fabrics are really cute but the prints are kind of small scale so from a distance they don't convey much. ...And the Nature shot! We have a family of Red Shoulder hawks in our neighborhood. I think this fellow is a juveni...

 Well this isn't a record for "lapses in Blogging" but it has been awhile.   I don't think I've mentioned but Starting Jan. 8th I've been attending classes once a week for my local Master Gardeners training program.   Master Gardeners program is a nationwide program that trains people to help support other home gardeners in a variety of ways.  Maybe you've heard of the Master Gardeners "Hotline".   Well suffice it to say it has been Challenging  and taken up a lot of my free time.  These past three weeks I've been slogging my way through a Take-Home-Final.  Oh,  my poor brain!   But, I've learned a whole bunch and I'm looking forward to volunteering for our local Demonstration Garden. That's a semi long way of explaining my Lapse.   This week as steam was coming out my ears from brain overload from my Final I escaped to sewing room and accomplished a few things: I finally (no bun intended) got the borders pu...