My little forest is complete!

The sixteen machine-stitched willow trees needed for "Willow Tree Hill" are now done! Some gnashing of teeth as I picked tear-away stabilizer out with tweezers occurred, but now it's all finished and I am surging ahead with sashing and cornerstones. I'm also planning my border layout (which will be a little different from the pattern). Here is the fabric that will be used for both sashings and the large border:This lovely Jacobean-style print was just so pretty to me that I bought a lot of it when I found it! I'll have enough for the whole back of the quilt to be done in this, too!

I have to confess I gave myself today off--pretty much all I did was putter in the "studio." My excuse is that last evening after dinner I was playing with the kids on the play set in the back yard. While trying to climb down this ladder, the plastic handle I was holding on to broke (!) and I fell probably about 7 or 8 feet to land on my back/right side. Ouch.

Knocked the wind out of me something awful. I'm so grateful it was me who fell because of the broken handle and not one of the kids--thank heaven for that. But I sure was sore this morning. As the day has gone on, the pain has resolved to mostly a sprained right arm and a sore right buttock. :)

Of course it is mildly amusing in retrospect that as I lay there trying to get my diaphragm to start working normally again so I can catch a breath, my kids are just chattering away and continuing to play like absolutely not a thing was wrong in the world! Never mind that Mom is laying in the grass making funny sounds. They must think I'm Wonder Woman and can survive such events without even mussing my hair. I guess that is part of being a Mom: to your kids, you do handle everything! From making boo boos better to keeping the sun coming up each morning. It's just another day in the life of Wonder Woman.