The ballot for California Governor has a very, very long list of candidates. My neighbor warned me, but I wasn’t ready for the mountain of names. Lol.

Happy to report that my yard is absolutely bonkers with breeding Black-chinned and Anna’s Hummingbirds. 🪶

It is apparently going to finally get hot here, after weeks of oddly cool weather, and I feel ill-prepared to face the blast furnace of summer weather in the Sacramento Valley.

A neighborhood cat killed the baby wild birds in a nest in my tree and I am bereft. I would prefer if cats were not allowed to roam free and do this type of thing.

Currently in the slog of sewing all the blocks together part of quilt making.

fuck the met gala and fuck jeff bezos. that is the official stance of the handbasket.

Someone gave me about a dozen pairs of khakis, because I make quilts, and I wonder what, if anything, I could do with them. Not a color I usually work with.

Once again the weather is warm. Will it stay warm this time? If so it will be hot soon. So I think I should plant out my flower starts so they can get their root going sooner rather than later. I decided that this year I would plant a mass of zinnias & cosmos.

Weird weather. March too hot. Rainy April. It is soup weather. I had soup yesterday for lunch. Today I am in the greenhouse to be warm enough to eat frozen oat milk ice cream. I am here with my little seedlings that are waiting for warmer weather before getting planted.

I have had to slog through mailchimp contact management for hours today, and will do so again tomorrow. But…i got a bunch of piecing done on my next small quilt and will have it all sewn up by tomorrow evening.

Trying to get fabric cut for quilt retreat this weekend, but I have all this administrative work to do on the computer.

It is about to get wild over here. My FOS Black-chinned Hummingbird male showed up and peeped the feeder, along with migrating Rufous Hummingbird, and the resident Anna’s Hummingbirds! 🪶

I finally started quilting a quilt that I put together last year. I had to ponder how I wanted to quilt it, and then change my mind 400 times before going with my original, boring plan to do straight lines. It was either start it today or go to office supply store. Lol.

I sowed some zinnia seeds at lunch break. A Downy Woodpecker foraged nearby and checked out my activities for a short while. The White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows are still here, filling the yard with birdsong.

My spot at the April meet the teacher event has been confirmed. I have my quilt samples ready and I need to print up some flyers and think about my table display. My presentation needs to be up to 3 mins. I am nervous just thinking about it.

The unseasonably warm weather has me hanging clothes out on the clothesline, but the mosquitoes find me and they are so hungry.

March 17 we had 82° at 7pm. Should not be this hot yet. It is terrible.

Finally looked up how to turn off autocorrect and autofil on my phone, and gosh it is so nice.

My quilts, coming back from QuiltCon, were supposed to be delivered on Monday, and instead they took a journey up the west coast via USPS. Now they are coming today, so I have to cancel everything to wait around for them. I’m glad they didn’t get lost.

I, an introvert, am going to launch myself into the regional quilt teacher circuit this spring because my graphic design work has been eaten by people using canva and ai. Workshop first, then I will have to work up to being able to present a lecture & trunk show. Yikes.

I was braiding my hair and my apple watch asked if I wanted to record my SWIM WORKOUT! Lol.

It snowed for a brief moment today. Last time it snowed here was 1988.

I’m leaning into eccentricity by dumping pennies into the self checkout at the grocery store.

The seasonal allergies have come for me quite aggressively this week. The usual pills and sprays are barely making a dent.

Yesterday at sewing group I nibbled on a few too many sweets. So when I got home I went out for a fast walk. Lucky for me I had my binoculars and spotted an amazing bird: Ferruginous Hawk!

Why on Earth would you do that?

The pipes gurgled and so I plunged. Hopefully I cleared the clog!

Time to put up a new calendar.

I received my first inquiry about what my resist pin means. They asked what I am resisting. In Timothy Snyder’s book “on tyranny” he says to calmly resist evil. So I told them I am resisting evil. From their look it was not what they were expecting to hear. Lol.

I’m about to start cutting fabric for my next quilt. Cut, cut, sew, trim, sew, sew, sew, etc.

Might have ordered some more fabric for making quilts. Lol.

I’m adding another line of quilting to my quilt, for about half inch apart, straight-ish lines across the width. I might run out of the top thread and am thinking I should go to the quilt shop to find something suitable should that happen. Or I would have to order online and wait.

I wore a mask at quilt guild last night. Someone asked if I was sick. I said no. I said I don’t want to get sick. She giggled nervously and then said-oh you’ll be fine. I mean, yeah because I wear a mask around other people

Cool enough to wear jeans in the morning, but too hot to wear jeans in the afternoon.

Someone posted this on nextdoor. it.

Here’s my latest quilt finish. Freehand cut, drunkards path blocks, improv pieced. Free motion quilted on my domestic sewing machine. #quiltsky

I’m going to take the binding off the quilt I just bound so I can do more quilting on it. Never sew a stitch you aren’t willing to rip, or something. Lol.

This quilt design is based on a similar block arrangement I learned in the Tara Faughnan block studies class last year. My color palette is inspired by flowers. This is approximately 70 x 72 inches #quiltsky

Dear #quiltsky I have been to the depths of the solids scrap bins and, starting with a selection of strips, have created this arrangement. It kept me from reading the news for hours upon hours! I was listening to audio books and sewing little pieces of fabric together. Approx 65 x 55

I finally finished hand quilting my quilt. Tidied up the sewing room and then sewed a simple shirt. Now my project is working on putting together a whole bunch of strips of varying sizes.

I had a yellow House Finch visit today. 🪶

Happy to report two Western Screech Owl fledglings are out and being fed by a parent. The sweetest little chortling coming from the tree they are in. 🪶

I re-upped my Costco membership after a five year break. Going to shop there today, and I am bracing for the culture shock.

I just finished this quilt that I started in March. I aimed to design something simple with visual punch. It is about 64“ x 70“ #quiltsky

I lost a subscriber on YouTube. Was it something I wrote? Word embroidery (Resist) youtu.be/8jv64PA5BSU

This lady on Instagram posted a picture of a house sparrow that’s building a nest in her birdhouse and I said that’s a House sparrow and she said actually I don’t think it’s a sparrow because it has stripes on the head and I am now dead. 🪶

The lemon tree in front of my house is blooming. Smells so good. Also a California Scrub-Jay couple made a nest in the tree and I heard the tiniest little bird sounds yesterday.

So I made another one very similar and gave it away at an “event” today. It was very well received! So I will make a few more of these mini quilt brooches to have at the ready for spontaneous gifts.

Someone on instagram called me a gringa, so I called him ese, and now we are getting married. Just kidding, I blocked him.

The only good thing about insomnia at 2:30 am is hearing the Western Screech Owl vocalizing outside my window. 🪶