DWM 5/10/15 & Winner

I finished up my secret project and it is ready for a morning mail out.  So I decided to put together my rows for this wonderful quilt inspired by Beth.  I love her border treatment, but I am going with a 4.5" white border (that should just about use that up) followed by a double row of 2.5" squares - I hope it tames that scrap barrel.   Maybe doing a scrappy border will give me less stress - you know how I hate to add borders.  I will have just enough of the black used for the star points for the binding to tie it together.


** linking up with Scraptastic Tuesday **

We finally had some warm, sunshiney days that just made everything just POP to life.  This is an apple tree just off the corner of my side of the main house.  I bought it 22 yrs ago for my Dad for Father's Day.  We lost our large orchard to a tornado in 1989  and we missed having all those lovely fruit trees.  This was marked a 'miniature' (there is actually about a dozen behind the barn now hidden by this tree) and there were two cherry trees too but they developed a fungus and we lost them.  

Look how dense those blossoms are!  This tree has come into it's maturity - so wish my Dad could see this.  I took the photos from my porch because it was also dense with bees working their magic.  We have a couple of days of severe storms rolling in - a by-product of the plains storms - so I want those little buzzy fuzzies to enjoy those flowers before they are gone.

I want to thank all you wonderful people for dropping by and leaving a comment as to your favorite flower.  I even had to look a few up as I was not familiar with them.  And so many of you were great at including your e-mail, but I still had no-reply responders.  You are missing out sweet things.  Please check your profile settings and if you prefer not to have your e-mail listed then at least include it in your comments.  If we can't find you, you can't win.  And to that - I had my first and second random pull - no replies and I looked for something because I didn't want you to miss out, but I am not a magician.  So  I pulled number three random:

sewyouquilt2May 7, 2015 at 2:38 AM

I love all flowers but I would have to say the lilac. 

I will send her an e-mail for posting information.  Please don't be a no-reply, I have another super give away coming up on my Birthday Week (17th-23rd) that you won't want to miss out on.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon