Christmas Stockings

My current project is making Christmas stockings for others using my Christmas fabric stash.  I am having so such fun making and offering these to families to replace those lost in the Campfire in CA.

Beth's Patch ~ Butterflies

This year November hasn't been kind to the butterflies with early cold spells and rainy, gray weather.  The cold has killed off almost all nectar except the snapdragons.  Several days this November I have had 10 species of butterflies in the year though the mix has changed for a total number of 13 species seen.  Add to that the 2 species of chrysalis that are overwintering and there have been a total of 15 species for this month.  My biggest surprise was seeing the Sleepy Orange butterfly numerous times this fall including today and twice last week.

American Lady Butterfly

Common Buckeye Butterfly

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Cabbage White Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly

Sleepy Orange Butterfly

Fiery Skipper

Donation Quilts ~ Quilts of Valor

#14 QoV for 2019

#15 QoV for 2019

Beth's Patch ~ Monarch Butterflies

Every year we are always happy to have monarch's in the yard but more excited when there is a large migration of them with roosts here or nearby.  Sadly, this year while there have been Monarch's coming through our gardens, our highest number of monarch butterflies this year was probably around 50.  Here's a selection of pictures of them nectaring in our gardens from the past few months.

Mating Monarch Butterflies

A little worse for the wear but still going strong

And the Monarch Butterflies were tagged again in our yard.

Quilts of Valor

Today, I handed in 3 more quilt tops for Quilts of Valor.  Now they'll go onto a longarm quilter to be quilted.  I also brought home fabric to cut and piece for 3 more plus a challenge that consists of  quilt panel and a yard of fabric.  Guess I'll be playing in my quilting space again soon.