How Does Your Garden Grow

For so long I have been seeing the hexagon "One Flower Wednesday" sew alongs on various blogs.  The flowers always look so pretty.  Someday I will definitely make a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt, but I have decided to join Thearica for her "How Does Your Garden Grow" quilt along.  You can make any kind of flower and I have decided to go with yo yo flowers.  I have an idea where I will go with it and I hope it works out.  Check out the link and join in with us.  These are my first three flowers.  I worked on them while riding in the car - a great takealong project.

My real flowers are doing pretty well too.  This is an area of the patio where the plumerias are blooming.  The smell is just heavenly.

Thanks to our generous neighbors who were gone for the weekend, we had some extra fun in store for the children.  It was quite refreshing.



"jump, jump...we'll catch you"



The latest two blocks of my Civil War quilt along are finished........

as is the July Birdie Stitches block. 

I can't believe it is already August.  School will soon be starting and it will be Christmas again before we know it.  The years are going much too quickly.