By now the local birds should have discovered the fancy-schmancy birdfeeder that The Husband and Son #2 installed last Sunday, but I'm not getting any pictures sent to my phone and I've not seen a single bird land on the perch. Until yesterday, when it sent me several pictures of the back yard for no apparent reason, I worried that either the camera wasn't working or my phone settings were wrong. Now that I know it actually can send pictures, I'm worried that there's something about the location that the birds don't like.
Yesterday, I got excited when I saw a bird land on the rim of the ruined basketball goal, but it flew away without investigating the feeder. I'm convinced that if just one bird will find the feeder, it will tell the others, and there'll be a perpetual bird party in the back yard.
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I can't decide how to proceed on the wedding quilt. The top half of the quilt is pieced and machine-quilted. The bottom right half is pieced and machine-quilted quilted. The bottom left half is pieced but not quilted. I could do the quilt-as-you-go method to finish the quilt if I hadn't quilted that bottom right section. I considered removing the quilting stitches, but that would take forever. I considered continuing with the method that requires hand-sewing to join the sections, but that would take more handwork than my arthritic fingers want to do. I considered re-making the bottom right section and moving forward with the QAYG method, and even went to the fabric store for more fabric, but I dread all that cutting, so I'm stalled with indecision.
Maybe I'll ponder it for another day.
While I was at the fabric store, I got fabric for a new quilt, this one intended for my bed. Or maybe a spare bed. I bought fabric to coordinate with three other fabrics already in my stash. I only have a yard each of the other three fabrics, and one of them is directional as well as "sectional" and won't lend itself well to just any old pattern. I also have some black print fabric in my stash, if it turn out that the design needs a darker dark than the purple.
Some ideas are forming. I should go sketch them before I forget them. :)
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