Flowers and Pins

The sea of gladdies early this morning:

This amazing one is in a different part of the garden:

I do not remember seeing it flower before. It would be a corm dug up in the garden rescue mission of 2015, but perhaps it was very tiny and has only this year grown enough to start flowering. It is beautiful!

My job today was basting my Good Fortune quilt:

It is too big to be done all at once so there was a lot of unclipping, moving, and reclipping between pinning bouts.

Eventually most of it was pinned:

But I ran out of pins before I made it to the edges:

so most of the borders are not pinned yet. I will have to quilt the centre of the quilt, then use the removed pins in the borders. I wonder where the rest of my pins are? Perhaps there is a basted charity quilt or two that I had forgotten about...


The highlight of my day, better than seeing a beautiful new flower, or getting the mystery quilt basted, was receiving a parcel all the way from Norway:

This very sweet pincushion is a special gift from Turid at Den syende himmel. It is wonderful how the internet has brought us friends in all corners of the world. I first met Turid through one of Bonnie's previous mystery quilts. If you haven't visited Turid's blog, you should check out this post:
La Passion from a drone, where you can see her amazing "La Passion" hexagon quilt (16,762 hexies!), as well as some of the beautiful area of Norway which is her home.