Quilt #17-Spring Thaw

With all my seeds planted, I can now return to my quilting. My husband built three boxes for my Square Foot Gardening, which is very effective and practical if you don't have a large backyard. I've adopted raised-bed for my gardening years ago I read all about Mel Bartholomew new ways of gardening for home-gardeners.  It doesn't take much space, and weeding isn't a tedious task. Also, watering can be controlled to a minimum. It all depends on how you set your boxes.

 This box is 3' x 8' and has 24 square foot gardening spaces available. For beans, I planted 9 seeds in one square foot. A total of 216 seeds planted in 24 square feet!! Imagine the volume of beans I'm going to eat this summer. Well, that's IF the rabbits, snail, and whatnot eats my baby plants before they grow.

 This is another great time to take beautiful pictures. I'm enjoying so much outdoor. Yes, even if we have more days with rains, then sunny ones.

                                   Even in the evening, the sky has its beauty.

Now back to quilting. The quilt-top gives the impression the pattern is somewhat complicated, but it's not at all. It has two different blocks, which are similar in how to sew them together, and then you alternated giving your this effective one busy look.  

 It's such a challenge these days to take a decent picture of my finished tops outside because of the raining days or if it's sunny, there is a strong breeze that flipped the corners of my quilt all over the place, before I can take a shot.  Oh the joy of quilting and photography *smile*

I have ONE quilt left to sew for this challenge to be completed. Then I can work on my other UFOs.
What have you been doing this month? Are you enjoying the outdoors as much as I have? Is your budget for quilting very limited as mine? How can you work around that when you cannot spend one pennied on fabric for your backing and batting. Or you don't have enough fabric for your next project.

I'm always interested to hear from your feedback.
Until then, Let's used our scraps fabric and turned them unto beautiful quilts!

Spring Thaw Quilt Pattern