WISTERIA AND PECANS

Feeling somewhat in a rut these last few weeks.  Thinking about doing something different for a bit of a change.  Maybe time to pull out a couple quilt books and do something different. 

I have another Enchanted Garden block in the works.  Not going to deal with the butterfly. 

It is time to finish this project.  I have been working on it for years.  The goal is to finish by the January 2026 quilt show.

The hang up has been the quilting on the blossoms.  I am not a free motion quilter. Never have been able to get the hang of it  This is done by twisting and turning the piece under the machine to get the nice curved quilting done. So doing this quilting on the project is a monumental chore for me.

I have four more of them to accomplish and it is finally time to get myself together and do it.  

I have kept all the thread colors together so best to just grit my teeth and get busy.

I have been a bit busy on this project with husband.  We have two large pecan trees on our side yard and it is harvest time.  He is busy knocking the hulls out of the trees, then once hulled they go in the oven for a couple hours, then shelled, then dried again and into the freezer.  I think we are on gallon bag number 7 about 4 or 5 pounds of shelled nuts a bag.  My contribution is picking the hulls off the ground and putting them into the buckets and vacuuming up the shells off the dining room floor after he finishes shelling them.  And oh yes, the Christmas baklava!