Sunshine and Summer Pinwheel Done!

This is the first completely traditional quilt I have ever pieced, quilted and finished myself. (I have done tons of raggy quilts) I have been so intimidated by machine quilting that I have a bunch of flimsys . Thanks to all the encouragement I have gotten from my followers and on line friends I did it.

I saw this machine quilting pattern on a mini quilt (sorry I can not remember who posted it) on one of the blogs I was surfing.
It was an easy pattern, I am not real straight and perfect as on the mini quilt I saw but that is what adds charm and shows that it was hand made not factory made.
I love the bright colors and it could be a boy quilt.
DH filled up the large stock tank with water and re potted some of the plants from another pond. We want to put cinder blocks around this one then face them with stones.We will put a floating heater in it for winter. DD brought over some polliwogs yesterday to help start the ecosystem before we put in gold fish later this week.
Skys are gorgouse today and it is heating up. We have had almost record breaking rain so far this month. Amazing thunder stroms ( I love them so full of energy) but it is time to see some pretty blue skies. Makes it easyer to take quilt pictures too.

What do you do when your computer is down?

Internet Explorer 8 update killed our lap top. We ended up putting Firefox on but were down for a while. I got so much stuff done. I made this quilt.It is a raggy but I did some major machine quilting on it and binding on the outside edges.

I made this for my husbands Internet girlfriend. lol Dh has MS and belongs to a support group here on line. One lady on the group has always been the cheerleader, always up and supportive. Sent cards and letters and phoned a few times when my Dh was bad and had to be life flighted. She is an RN and has stayed very active. Went to India last year. Well in the last few weeks she has been sick and just not doing well. So I made her a hug quilt.
Here is Dh examining his garden. While the computer was acting up we went to the store and bought some "sad plants" (50% off clearance plants) and planted them around the ponds. Can't wait till they get growing.
The water lilies in this pond have gone crazy. We have another very large stock tank that we are going to make into another above the ground pond and transplant some of these lilies. Dh wants to catch some small blue gill and/or smaller cat fish to put in the new pond.
I am almost done machine quilting Summer Pinwheel. The batteries in my camera need to be charged so will show pictures later.