My Yard ~ Hummingbird Moth

MY Yard ~ Dragonfly takes a Butterfly

Common Green Darner Dragonfly takes down a Black Swallowtail Butterfly.  But, hey, everyone has to eat!

My Yard ~ Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

My Yard ~ Carolina Mantis

Today, I found a Carolina Mantis in my yard in a container planted with lantana.  This mantis is a native mantis and can be found mainly in North and South Carolina, though these days it can often be found throughout the USA.  It's beneficial to have in your yard and gardens as it eats many garden pests that would otherwise destroy your flowers

Some Overdyeing & Working on a Quilt Top

Lattice charm quilt with fabrics I dyed. It's a current work in progress.

Started with the gold fabric, scrunched one fabric into a cup and pleated the other.  Used Chino dye on both of them.  Love the results!

A light, light green base, overdyed a darker green and then overdyed with chino with pleats.
Love the results!

2 more overdyed fabrics

All these fabrics started with a base color and needed more "something."  Shibori done by wrapping the base fabric on the diagonal using string and scrunching it all to the base of the pole.

Jewel Box Quilt Top

Ealier this year I began to piece together my Jewel Block quilt top using both blocks I swapped and ones I made since that time.  My online dyeing group are the ladies that I swapped blocks with and many have already finished their quilts.  My top is now pieced after getting some opinions as to inner border colors and the overall layout of the blocks.  I love how it turned out as one of my worries was it would look too dark due to the black but that's so not true.  Here's the quilt out in the yard by my gardens.  The top will be quilted by a friend who does gorgeous long arm quilting.

My Yard ~ Gray Hairstreak

My Yard ~ Recent Butterflies

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Least Skipper

Mating Monarch Butterflies

Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Question Mark Butterfly

Common Sootywing 

Silver-spotted Skipper

New Yard Butterfly ~ # 48 ~ Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly ~ so new, so fresh and so,so gorgeous!

Kimbel's Beach Road ~ Butterflies

Delaware Skipper

Least Skipper (left) & Broad-winged Skipper (right)

male Zabulon Skipper

female Zabulon Skipper

Cape May County ~ Juniper Hairstreaks

CMBO property 8/5/18 between this property and one about 3 miles away I saw 25 Juniper Hairstreaks which is more than I have seen since I started this love of butterflies in 2013.  This first picture has 4 Juniper Hairstreak's hiding in there.

Kimbel's Beach Road ~ Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Hayhurst Scallopwings were in double digit numbers along Kimbels Beach Rd in Middle Twp today. I stopped counting at 25. More than I have ever seen but I really needed someone with a digital counter.

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

Hayhurst's Scallopwing and Broad-winged Skipper

Hayhurst's Scallopwing

August Fabric Postcard Display

As I have said before, I love making fabric postcards.  I made one of the cards (bottom right) and the rest are from different swaps I have been in over the years.  These postcards are called "Under the Sea."