Who's Almost Done?

 I did a little bit of piecing yesterday on the new flannel blocks 

but mostly focused on finishing the owl quilt!

(It was hard to stand that long but I wanted it done.

 When I laid it out I could see the owls themselves bubbled out a bit too much.

There was too much unquilted space;  after a bit of thinking, I needed to do some free-motion quilting on the domestic machine with invisible thread.

 I folded the quilt and got the settings  all correct and Lena came to do a different kind of settling!

The whole point of free-motion is to freely move the quilt under the needle--she was not making this possible.

 Once she was sleeping in a better place, 

I managed to do some well placed lines on each owl and found it was just what needed to happen.

I did a column of owls before my shoulders knotted up so I will finish that on another day;

I'm not happy with the delay but it will be worth it!

 And I loaded up my neighbor's owl quilt!

I will do it similar to mine but not exactly-her sashing is so pretty framing each block, 

I want to highlight this feature.

This guy came for a visit.

His loud knock sure made both Lena and myself jump with a start!

He doesn't come to see how I am doing on any given project

as much as let me know he is ready for his morning's cracked corn!