Such Excitement

The sliding door to the studio was left open for the comings and goings of the Dawgs, and in flew a hummingbird.
She went nuts in the room, flying into the big lights until I turned them off. I tried everything to get her to leave. Then I went out and got the hummingbird feeder and hung it from the track lighting bar. Eventually she saw the red juice and began reenergizing herself from her struggle. After three hours I moved the feeder to the curtain rod over the sliding door, and she finally got the message to GO!



Back to quilting as I go...
Here I am attaching a center panel between two big quilted quadrants. The thin yellow strip is the connecting strip, and it is sewn to both the center panel and the adjoining quadrant block.

See the pins on the sides of the yellow strip? They are pinning the connector strip on the back, through the front side, so I can quilt/topstitch them down. It's an experiment and another attempt to expand the possiblities of QAYG techniques.

The connector strip on the back is a two inch wide strip, folded in half and sewn on the back at the same time as the one  1" edge of the yellow strip on the front. Got that?
When you actually do it, it all becomes obvious...


Then I top stitched right next to the yellow strip, catching the back strip as I stitched.
It worked!!!