Sweet River Studios

I like making quilts with patterns and I recently purchased a paper piecing pattern called Paradise in Bloom by Judy Niemeyer. I haven't even selected fabric for that one yet but I will. It's early stages for this quilt but I'm hoping to start it soon. Lately, I've been feeling the need to start another art quilt. I like the freedom of no pattern. It's mine and I can do what I want with it using whatever technique I want to try out. I've been thinking that I'd make something to do with horses. I originally thought I'd make a quilt featuring carousel horses using the four seasons as a theme. Then I got to thinking that maybe I'll just use real horses instead but I haven't really decided. A picture in my brain is starting to form and it's looking more and more like real horses that are running. And big. Did I mention that? Like 45x120" big. Like scary big. Then the artist part of my brain scoffs and says, "Go big or go home."

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any bluebirds lately. I'm still putting out live mealworms but I only see house wrens and the occasional chickadee on the feeder. I have seen two new visitors to my backyard in the last few days. House wrens are small brown birds with a loud singing voice and the other day I saw a larger brown bird chasing what I believed was a house wren. I didn't think much of it until the larger brown bird landed on the mealworm feeder. So I got my binoculars and watched the feeder and got a good look at the larger brown bird. It looked very similar to the house wren just bigger and with a lighter stripe of cream/yellow through it's eye. My mom mentioned she saw a Carolina wren on her feeder and this little guy matched her description. If they've been around my yard, I didn't notice them before but it clearly has a cream strip over it's eye, which the house wren lacks and it's belly was a nice buttery yellow color. I've liv