There's a hurricane coming?

We live in the northeast corner of Georgia, and have been told to get prepared for hurricane Florence on the weekend. What?! The path has it making a curve over South Carolina and up toward where we live, dropping large amounts of rain and bringing high winds. Mr Wazoo is ever diligent, so he had four big trees removed from the yard. They were dead and hollow, and he feared they might fall on the house if they blew over. Okay...

Mr W "supervising"

After they cut the tree, a guy on a tractor scooped it up and took it to the grinder.

The tree guys had machines to grind and reduce a tree to sawdust!

Another one bites the dust!

Down it goes!

Once the trees were gone, Mr Wazoo blew the leaves and small branches off the driveway

Just stumps left

The view is better without the dead tree.

Meanwhile, I finished the bindings and labels on the last two Quilts of Valor.

QOV with pinwheels

Panto: Stars and Stripes

Here's what the QOV labels look like

This is my favorite of the three.

In the center, there was a star

Nice back, too!

I also had to get going on a repair. It needs to be finished by October 7th!

The biggest rip

Also, needs to have the binding off and new made.

I took out the torn block and basted in new batting

After adding iron on stabilizer to the back of the cross stitched part, I made a freezer paper template, ironed it to the top and carefully cut 1/4 inch away. Then, I turned under the edge and removed the paper. I glue sticked the "appliqué" to the new background and cut it to fit the hole.

I cut away the background from behind the cross stitched part after appliquéing the motif to the background, then stitched the new block into the space by hand. I am in the process of hand quilting this and other blocks where the stitching is gone. I made and applied the binding, and will hand stitch it down after I finish the quilting.

While I was doing all the hand stitching, I had the APQS quilting this Christmas tree skirt for a customer.

Log cabin tree skirt. The customer will cut the slit and bind it.

Panto: Holly Berries

Holly on the back!

Honestly, I am beat...it's time to go to bed. Tomorrow I have more PT for my foot, and more hand quilting. Good night!