Missing in action

I knew that I had not been posting but did not realize that it was May since I was last here!  My gosh how time flies.    I've been busy working, taking a child to summer practices, and going on a few day trips with the family with my Mother's Day present.  (see previous post for that story)  I have also been nursing an injured left knee for a few months, also a result of one of those day trips riding ATVs with the family.

 Me at the end of a long day.  Everything needed hosed down - twice!

Pics from the end of the day after we decided to have some fun riding through the mud puddles. So much fun!!!  My DH and eldest son.

Memorial Day weekend we went riding for about 8 hours and I got a little over zealous and took a bend a little too quickly and almost turned over, but I caught myself.  Unfortunately, I pulled something in my knee and at times it was just too painful to walk for more than 10 minutes at the most, but with a few months of rest, I am happy to say I am about 95% better. 

I have still been making time for sewing and working on a year-long project that is (hopefully) just about done.  Here are a few teaser pics.

I'm in the quilting stages of this project and trying to free motion quilt this on my  home sewing machine has proven very frustrating at times, but I hope to have this one finished within the next 2 weeks.   

And I have been working on this:

 These are wild and goosey blocks, a pattern that was in the May/June issue of Quiltmaker patterned by Bonnie Hunter.  More on this one to come as well.  

Well, that's what I've been up to.  Hopefully, now that the weather is cooling down, I'll post a little more frequently.  Thanks for visiting!