This morning I went up to the attic and dug this out of the trunk where I have stored some of the completed tops that are waiting for me to quilt.

It is for my dear daughter Ambrosina, who claimed it when I only had two rows put together. It gets quilted next. It is king sized and I suspect I will be working on it for a while. I am glad to see it isn't as pink as I remembered it. She doesn't like pink, because as the only girl with five brothers I am afraid she wore a lot of pink when she was little. Even if I had five girls instead of only one they would have all worn pink. I love pink. I am the only one in the family who likes pink. Almost everyone has blue for their favorite color, so there is always a lot of blue around.
The solid squares are actually machine embroidered blocks. I love doing machine embroidery, and I love designing for machine embroidery and I designed and embroidered those blocks a long time ago when I was using clip art for the basis for the designs. I draw my own now, and so don't make as many as I did then. All the designs in the quilt are Celtic, which appeals strongly to my family and that is why she claimed the quilt.
I also have been working on my postage stamp top a little, the pieces are so small that it doesn't look like I have made much headway, but I think it's going pretty well. I never planned on getting it done quickly, so I am not displeased with the progress I am making.

Outside the dining room window I have a bird house hanging and this year for the first time I have a nesting pair of birds.When I sit and sew I can see their activity. We think it is a pair of house wrens, bird identification not being one of our strong points. The male is sitting on the perch while she is on the nest and he was chasing sparrows away all morning. They just finished the nest yesterday and they are such pretty dainty little birds that we will enjoy watching for the summer or as long as they are with us.