Leaves in the Wind

It was a blustery day on Monday. Smitty usually isn't shy about going out in the rain. He goes out for his usual morning hunt, then comes in soaking wet and shakes off like a dog. The wind and the rain is even too much for him, however, and so he spent the morning bored silly.

Finally, Mom put on a video for him, and he happily watched it for all of about 20 minutes.

I used the time to finish stitching the right side of the Vintage Tin block. It's about 2/3 finished now.

It's hooped up and ready for me to move left now.

I was able to get quite a bit of the quilting done on the Aspen Tree quilt. The tree trunk is stitched now, along with the markings on the tree bark.

I settled on using matching thread to top-stitch the leaves, and I have the dark and light green ones finished now. I'll start with the yellow ones next.

I love how effectively thread can mimic nature.

Almost looks like the same image doesn't it? This one was taken on Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park in Nevada.

Today I'll continue on with the leaves. I'm not sure I'm going to be happy with my thread selection on the orange leaves. I don't have a good orange thread for those. They might be okay with a red, but I'll have to stitch them and see what I think. Just in case, I have some bright orange rayon thread on order. Even if I don't need it for this quilt, it'll be good to have some on hand in the future.
I've been amazed at how well the rayon has performed. I've been doing this free motion, and I've only had one episode of thread breakage. Just to be sure, I massaged some Sewer's Aid into the thread, and I've had no more problems.
So, off I go. It looks like the weather is going to clear up for about a week. I'm anxious to get out for a walk. We've all been cooped up inside for too many days in a row.
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