I kind of ran out of steam for doing the last four rows on the "Dozen Roses" quilt top, but you can kind of get the idea of where it's going:



When it's done, it will also have two borders: a narrow inner border that will be an orangey-peach marbled fabric, and an outer border that is pink, in that Dimples pattern. (The outer border fabric I had bought with the fat quarters for the quilt; the inner border fabric was another moment of stash-serendipity because the quilt I originally planned for these fabrics didn't have an inner border and I decided I wanted one).

Here's a close up. My favorite fabric in the entire quilt is the one with the little pastel trees in it:



I also spent about an hour yesterday afternoon (still somewhat antsy) cutting out all the gorram* tree seedlings from my gardens in the backyard. And I didn't even get all of them....it'll be another hour or so's work to complete that. And pulled up an awful lot of Virginia creeper, and very carefully cut out a bit of poison ivy (and then ran in to wash my hands in cold water: supposedly if you do that within a half hour of exposure, you're a lot less likely to get it).

(*Gorram is not a type of tree. Those who remember "Firefly" will recognize it as the writers' (rather clever, I think) way of using words that are not cursing, but sound like a curse.)

I've also been doing more hand quilting. I don't know how easy it is to see it, but I decided that as I was working my way around the edge anyway, I might as well start on the inner border. I'm doing almost stitching-in-the-ditch along the diagonals and then up one straight side of each square.

For the outer border - if I decide to quilt it after all - I will need to pin on an "extender." I have an old linen tea towel somewhere that I use for that purpose.