Thoughts of a Grasshopper

About 15 months ago a friend gave me his wife's fabric. She had passed away from cancer about 6 years ago. He requested that I make a quilt for him using her butterfly material. I cut the pieces a year ago in June. I sewed a few blocks together in August. Life got busier than usual and it sat on the shelf above my desk, a constant reminder that I needed to finish making this quilt. This is the second project that I completed because life slowed down due to COVID. I still have a quilt to make for his son, but he told me I can take my time. As did Ralph, but I wanted him to have his quilt as soon as I could make it. I share the above picture, not to show how horrible I am at taking pictures with my phone but because it captures the colors of the quilt better than the above picture where they seem much darker.  

I'm sharing this card long after I made it. I'm not listing supplies as it was from the Good Morning Magnolia Suite from the 2019-2020 catalog.

I ordered some Mix Tiles for our wall. I wanted to change out the four pictures and the vinyl phrase above them. For a long time, I've wanted to have pictures of nature there. the hard part would be choosing which ones. I couldn't decide if I should focus on bird pictures, flowers, etc. Then I learned of Mix Tiles. They are repositionable and come with the double-stick foam tape already attached. They were running a special and I decided to give it a go. I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning finding the pictures that would end up on our wall. Part of that was because I didn't know if the shopping cart would empty if I went to bed and continued the next day. So I continued. This wall has pictures of all the states we've lived in and some special places we've visited. My son and his girlfriend decided on the layout and put the pictures up while I made dinner. When it was done, I thought it matched perfectly with a wall hanging that hangs on the other side of