A day for the birds, and a finish---

Another of my aims for this month was to finish the Scrubstitching quilt I shared about back *here*. Kiwikid Sue and I challenged each other to make a postcard quilt highlighting our fun and adventures when we went to Scrub Stitching retreat in NSW last April.
I had mine to wall hanging stage but I still needed to do some more stitching down, plus bind it.
That was today's task —

In case it helps to see a little more detail, here's the top half —

And the bottom —

After quilting all the background (cross hatching with my walking foot), I bordered each postcard block —

And then folded the edges over  —

So that I could top stitch them in place (stitched in the ditch where the border joins the stitchery part and then around the outside of the red) —

Simple free motion quilting to create 'roads' linking each postcard —

I enjoyed playing around drawing each block but I think this is my favourite motif of them all :-)

This wall hanging is even more special now, since we couldn't all attend this year. Let's hope next year we'll have an excuse to make another memorabilia scrubstitching quilt!

This morning's walk was another hill climb in the top back corner of the farm —

Along the bushline were these ferns - we have a few patches of them but these were looking very photogenic this morning —

Does anyone know what these are called? 

And then the birds started appearing. Not that I haven't seen them every other day, but I seemed to be able to get the photos today!

The Pukeko —

Goldfinches on a fence —

The swallows were enjoying the sun (and doing lots of grooming) —

And even our new family of quail let me photograph them —

So as well as the exercise, it was a pretty satisfying walk!

As our lockdown restrictions ease ever so slightly tomorrow, moving from Level Four to Level Three, I'm going to ease up on the blogging! It was on the spur of the moment that I decided to blog every day during this period. Not so spur of the moment to walk each day, that had been on the cards for a while, I just needed the push.
We have two weeks at this next level until it is decided what we will do next. Let's hope this curve is squashed totally...time will tell.
Thank you all for reading along and your encouragement :-) It's been good to have something to focus on during this time, and I have enjoyed connecting with you all.

'til next time, 

stay healthy and home, 

and happy stitches,