The weekend.

 The last two days in Vermont, and I am enjoying some slow stitching and relaxing. We had a great 4th of July with family. Lots of food and chatting with 16 of us there and a Gracie dog.

The loons and their baby were hanging out a bunch of the afternoon in front of the camp.

Mama and baby on her back

Mom and Dad with the baby by one of them.

I did get a smore in after everyone left for the day.

I did get my lobster in today. I called ahead and picked it up after I dropped off the garbage and recycling. Yes, their next run to the dump will be a smelly lobster one! 

I got a maple iced coffee this morning, and a maple ice cream this afternoon. We also stopped in at the newly opened Lake Elmore Store. It closed the end of December and got remodeled and just reopened on July 4th. Lots of local things and they opened up the store to have a cafe, with some cozy seating inside and out with a beautiful view of the lake. 

I think I'll pop out to my favorite spot and add some more stitches into another flowering snowball block.

Flowering Snowball quilt is completed!

After being at horses with Emily in the feels like 100 degrees for a couple of hours this morning.... I'm usually toast the rest of the day! So.... today I decided to finish the quilting on the last 4 parts and hand stitch the binding down on this quilt while listening to my audio book The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell. I'm happy to say my OMG for August is complete!

The back to school shopping included a package of binder clips... that were perfect for binding! 

My trusty helpers - Sophie the white cat who is almost 17 and Peanut. I know Ollie was on the floor somewhere in the room with us. I tend to have 2-3 cats in whatever room I am in!

Flowering Snowball quilt. Hand pieced, hand quilting and I did use the machine to add the binding to the top but hand stitched it to the pretty teal backing.

A shot of the back. Bands of rain going through so no outside shots, sorry.

A close up of some of the quilting. I used my blue YLI hand quilting thread. 

Linking up with August OMG and Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.