A Walk In My Garden Part 2

 Always more to see, it changes daily! 

Zinnia

Purple Cone Flowers

Tree Shrooms!

Potato vines gone wild

Fun yard art!

Sprinkling away

Step away from the catnip and no one gets hurt!

A Walk In My Garden....

Here it is, August already and school and the Great Minnesota Get Together are just around the corner.  It's another humid day and we truly have had Summer this year.   Today I enjoyed just sitting on the porch and walking through the yard.........

Lovely bunches of grapes

Tall Phlox

Black Eye Susan

Green Coneflower

Bees are still after the Blue Globe Thistles

Milkweed Flower

Future Monarch!

Mmm Mmm Good!

Miss Emma "You are disturbing my nap time!"

Scrapbooking

 I'm moving along with my quilting UFO's.  I have another one done, but I took a break to work on a scrapbooking project I started about a year ago.  Last winter I sorted all the photographs by year and decided to start a scrapbook with my trip to Italy in 1996.  I went with my sister to visit family.  Below are some of the pages from my scrapbook.  I hope to go back.  It was a wonderful trip. 

Anna Dzik
anna@westthirdstreetdesigns.com
www.WestThirdStreetDesigns.com
Quilt Patterns, Kona Bay Solid Colored Fabrics

Lava Flow Trek

While in Hawai'i this year, my family and I went on a trek to see the lava flow.  Since the lava is flowing on private lands, we found one of the land owners giving hiking tours out to the flow.  It was amazing and hot, hot, hot.  The lava is slow moving and it is also amazing how much ground it covers in a short time.  Our trip was with Kalapana Lava Trek.
Since our trip the Pu'u O'o vent has collapsed and there is no new lava flowing in Kalapana.  If you are heading to Hawai'i, check the Volcano National Park's website for the latest information on where the lava is flowing. 
I can cross this one off of the bucket list!

The Trek Begins

Anna Dzik
anna@westthirdstreetdesigns.com
 www.WestThirdStreetDesigns.com
Quilt Patterns, Kona Bay Solid Colored Fabrics

Christmas Scraps

 I found some Christmas striped fabric in the bottom of a drawer I was cleaning out.  I like playing with stripes and these pieces were left over from one of the many UFO's I have.  Trimmed them up a little bit, and added side borders of green fabric with pine needles.  I had a strip of wild animal fabric left over from a quilt backing and ended up with 4 placemats. Finished size approx. 11" x 20".

Anna Dzik
anna@westthirdstreetdesigns.com
www.WestThirdStreetDesigns.com
Quilt Patterns, Kona Bay Solid Colored Fabrics

Hawaiian Quilt Show

This year I happened to be on the Big Island of Hawai'i at the right time.  There was a Hawaiian Quilt Show as part of the Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival.  The show was put on by Ka Hui Kapa Apana O Waimea.  All of these quilts are one of a kind and all done by hand.  In addition to local vendors, there was a how to Hawaiian Applique class, Hawaiian music, and Hula.  A very enjoyable experience.

Aloha and enjoy the show!

I was also able to copy (for a nominal fee) a large Hawaiian Quilt Pattern.  I do enjoy hand applique and this will definately be on my to do list!

 Lilia is the pattern I chose.

 A little bit of help setting up.

Tracing away!

Mahalo to all who have stopped by to visit this blog!

Anna Dzik
 anna@westthirdstreetdesigns.com
 http://www.westthirdstreetdesigns.com/

Quilt Patterns, Kona Bay Solid Colored Fabrics