Rhapsody in Blue

I'm back with another post about Rhapsody in Blue. When I'm hand quilting, I am able to reach at the most 6". Sometimes I can reach farther, straight stitching or diagonal straight stitching is easier to quilt than curves. This week's pictures don't look that much different from last week's pictures unless you look at the applique, progress is easier to see.

Here is what was quilted last week, from the left side of the quilt to the right side. I've finished quilting the applique on the left border. From now on it will be just the feather design on this side of the border.

There should be a picture of the checkboard blocks in-between the outside border and the inside applique border. It must be floating around somewhere in cyberspace.

The blue flower in the left bottom corner is the center of this row.

You can see some of the checkerboard border on the right side in this picture. Again I don't know what happened to the checkerboard border picture.

And the right outside border of the quilt with the lovely feathers.

Last week I was in Wakarusa and checked the quilt gardens. Nothing has been done to the space, the ground hasn't even been tilled. We've been experiencing cold wet weather, you can't work ground when it's wet and you can't plant flowers when there is a chance of frost!

Tradition says it's safe to plant annual flowers after Mother's Day but not this year, the weather forecast predicts several early mornings temps this week in the 30's Fahrenheit. I do have potted annuals on display in my flowerbeds, we've been moving them into the garage then back outside as the temperature allows. Perennials are blooming in the flowerbeds. Here are irises bringing us joy this spring, the creeping phlox is peeking into the photo.

Linking to Patchwork & Quilts, Kathys Slow Stitching Sunday, Stitching Stuff, Oh Scrap, Handmade Monday, Sew & Tell, Craftastic Monday, Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings, To Do Tuesday