So many quilt tops, so few finished quilts! (I SHOULD be working on Boston Molasses Flood... instead, I seem to have fallen into working on the next top... Bat Flight.)
It will be a throw sized piece... I just want to see how it will all go together. This, by the way, is only a test piece... the fabric is not speckled. :) No leopard bats! D is still piecing hers, and rather than leave her in the forge alone for hours at a time, I started piecing the next quilt. So... Bat Flight. There will be multiple bats, of course. One would be silly.
Last year we went down to the Hill Country here in Texas and went to a bat emergence. It was... impressive doesn't really cover it. The sight of all those millions of bats zooming around the ever-darkening sky in a loose trail was amazing. If everyone was quiet you could hear their wings fluttering. They made elegant swirls through the air, circled a big tree, and headed out for their night of bug-eating. I wished them the best at the time, and thought that I would love to make a bat quilt. It has taken me a while, but now I am getting there!
Working on Bat Flight does mean that the previous quilt top is done... yup. Here it is...
Ninja! The gold almost glows in the sunlight - next time I will put it more in the shade! :) The border will have ninja throwing stars quilted into it, and there will be at least one ninja in the main body of the quilt. Masters of concealment! It'll be a "find the ninja" quilt. :) Mostly because I can, and because it's practice for another quilt I want to make that requires a lot more detail and a lot more effort. So Ninja is my test piece. If I can make a ninja appear in the quilt, I will be happy.
And yes... we had class! It was a small class, due to illness and lots of other things going on. We'll have a make-up day, so it will all even out. Even with the small class, much was accomplished, and I cannot wait to see finished projects!
The weed garden is almost gone - we will finish it up this week and get the tarp over it to kill what we can. Hopefully the Texas summer will do the rest and by fall we can get containers in there to have a nice little kitchen herb garden going! More pictures once we finish that off...
Tonight we might get our hanging chairs up so we can lounge in comfort - in the hot Texas summer. (No, really...we're fine. There's plenty of shade. I can lounge outside and read with no problems). And then... maybe I will get an arbor to put outside the forge... once I figure out how to anchor it to the concrete. My goal - make the outside pretty!! I'll do it, too!
S
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