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We've arrived at Grundy lake after a few hiccups. We pulled into the campsite, opened the trailer door and got hit over the head with a horrendous odour! I will spare you any descriptive efforts. We then pulled back out of the campsite and down to the dumping station and did lots of water putting through the systems. I will again spare you the details. We solved the problem, drove back into the campsite, and were immediately assaulted with a much more pleasant odour..... Someone was cooking steaks. I put on our supper while Scott got the trailer stabilized. We're having pressure cooked pork chops, boiled potatoes and some as yet undecided vegetable. I had to come down to the lake to see what was happening. Someone heading out onto the lake in a canoe with fishing rods. I've said it before and I'll say it again..... I love this place!

 

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Sleepover night

This little boy went for his first ever sleep over camping in the trailer last night. So much fun to have him. He didn't get us up until 7:15, which is sleeping in for him. We're about 15 minutes form Grundy lake, so I'll post this now before we lose service.

 

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Charlene's Baby Quilt

I am getting to like the look of modern quilts more and more. Their simplicity leaves lots of space for fun quilting to show. In this case, once I saw the giraffe in the fabric in the centre square, I knew it needed to be quilted with the Animal Crackers pantograph. The lions and elephants and giraffes in the quilting design help keep the lonely giraffe in the centre company.

Christine's Garden Sampler

This is the third of Christine's quilts, a garden themed sampler. It looks rather Thimbleberry to me, but I'm not sure if that is the pattern source or not. With sampler quilts, it's always a hard choice to make between custom quilting every element in the quilt, or to do an all over design to tie it together. In this case, we decided on an over all large free hand swirl. The centre house, instead of receiving swirls, was outlined and stitched in the ditch, just to set it apart from the rest of the quilt.

Christine's Stacked Bricks

This is the second of Christine's quilts. I'm not sure what the official name of the pattern is, but I'm calling it Stacked Bricks. She's used more of that wonderful neutral colour palette in this one. I quilted it with a free hand loop de loop design.

Christine's Organic Pinwheels

This is the first of three quilts that  Christine brought me way back at the beginning of May. As usual, I'm behind on getting these documented. Each one of her quilts was unique so I think each one deserves its own post.
This quilt used some organic cottons from Birch Fabrics. I love the colour combination, a lovely gender neutral palette.
I quilted it using wavy cross hatching, called to the smallest square.

Sunday Stash and Stitching on Monday

I was having so  much fun, and was getting so much stitching done yesterday, that I didn't have time to write about it. I have four more stars for the centres done. 
There are four more outer pentagon rounds done. Here they are, paired up with the centres I think each will have, plus two more centres that need rings to go with them.

And earlier this week, I finished three more of the small rosettes. And here's everything pinned up to the design wall. I'm not sure if this is their final placement or not. I have to start making some decisions about outer star point colours for these rosettes, which means deciding where they are going to be in the final placement and that is getting hard to do.
None of these rosettes are finished, which means I can't subtract them from the stash used column yet.  And I haven't been working on anything else that I can subtract yet, either. However, I had 9 more yards of fabric come in this past week.

Used this week:                         0 yards
Used this year:                         48.9 yards
Added this week:                      9 yards
Added this year:                      75.75 yards
Net stash added:                       26.85 yards

I'm going to link up to my usual places, Judy's Fabric Report, and since it's Monday, Judy's Design Wall Monday, Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching and Angie's WIPs Be Gone.
I've made a decision about the outer star points on one of the rosettes, so I think I'll go get started on that now.