Well I just finished my quilt top. I "m going to spend the rest of the day trimming the strings from the back of the quilt. I also take a magnifying glass and go over the entire surface of the quilt to see if I have missed stitching any area on the quilt top. After that I will start adding a border. I am going to do a simple border because I am tired and since the quilt is so complex in the middle I think a simple border will be best . I also want to start another quilt. I have four quilt I want to to . I think the first one will be for Jamie Fingal's wounded warrior project. The next will be for SAQA ( Studio Art Quilt Association).
   Here is the finished quilt top.
   I will post when the border and binding are attached.

   I have made the hanging sleeve for this quilt and I have a label ready to be stitched on the back of the finished quilt.
   There is one thing that I may do . I would like to do a tiny bit of embroidery work on the largest tree.  I always want to add just a little more and I love to have just a tiny bit of embroidery or bead work somewhere on the quilt. I will post the changes once everything is done i am hoping I will get everything left to do done today.
    I am calling the quilt
BUDDAH"S GARDEN

Hey All
  Still busy stitching away. I am hoping to be finished with my quilt tomorrow. but one never knows what will come up it is my hope though to be finished. The last thing I need to do is put on my label. I made a large Swamp Rose Mallow to use for the label.
   Good news today I just got an email from a  man who does an online magazine and he has ask me to be in his spring issue. I will post more on that later. Today i wanted to post the latest picture of my progress on the quilt.
   I finished sewing down my Wisteria flowers and vines and I just finished pinning on my leaves and tendrils. I am getting ready to stitch them down then I will add just a little embroidery and then the border. Once that is done I will add my binding and label.

    
Here is a picture of the leaves I just finished pinning . I use tiny applique pins to pin my fabric pieces in place
Back to work.

Hey All
   Well I didn't get to post yesterday because i got caught up in some daily doing you know how it goes. I did get all my flowers attached and that took most of the day, but any way after I got the flowers attached I started to pin on some of the vines. I was going to do them in two colors of fabric but when I started to put them on I just didn't like the look. SO --- I had to remove one of the colors. I think I am going to paint my green mottled fabric, I'm using for the vines ,and paint them with some fabric water color pencils. I use Prismacolor Water -color pencils. They work great for me.
   I was also able to get my Wisteria's pinned in place i don't know if I will be putting more on or not . The next thing I want to get started today is pinning on my leaves and  tendrils. The tendrils I made from embroidery thread . I wrapped it around a pencil and twisted it to make it curl on itself.

   I want to get busy so I won't write to much right now. Here is a picture of my progress.