Two fun things in one day....

When DH left I put a leaf in  the table so it would be large enough to lay out my suffrage squares to see if there were any problem patches...  There were just a couple. 

Then I printed off all the images on paper except the posters and pinned them to the quilt..  I'm putting the trims on the last square tonight and then I can put the images on and finally start on fancy seams , beads and buttons.  I intend to allow time at the end of each day to work on this...  I would love to have all the squares finished to take to Wichita and get input from Allie....

It will be so nice to be able to leave it all spread out as I work for the next 2 weeks...  Notice in the lower right corner some yummy vintage brown velvet ribbon I ordered from Belgium on Ebay...  I've already set up two additional card tables to hold the overflow as I work...  I downloaded 4 Maeve Binchy books to listen to as I stitch this week.

The main fun thing I did today is spend most of the day on my tractor.  The sun was shining, it was 60 degrees, no wind and we'd had enough rain that there was no dust...  I groomed the mile-long trail through my woods which takes about 2 hours with the tiller in low gear... It will be perfect for walking this winter and spring and I moved a bunch of stuff with the bucket...  The dogs ran along and it goes so slow that they could run circles around it... VERY fun day...

Now I can clean it up and put in the antifreeze and park it in it's little shed for the winter.... My Deere John.  I've written about my tractor before .  This will be the first time in years that I haven't used it to stack bales in the barn... I always believed if they ever had a competition for old ladies stacking bales I would win a medal for sure...