Quilted and real desert flowers

I added 50 flowers to my desert quilt, AND the flowers in my desert yard are bursting from the monsoon moisture!

Anchoring 50 flowers with buttons sounded like too much work to do by hand, so I sewed them on by machine with the zigzag stitch. Much faster

The big purple bushes in my front yard are Texas Rangers, and they don't bloom until there's moisture in the air. Just irrigating with my drip system doesn't make them bloom.

The quail got turquoise bead eyes. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get pictures of the quail that I've seen in my yard, but they do come through now and then. I also get a road runner occasionally. Mostly I have hummingbirds and doves.

Here are closeups of some of my back yard flowers:

And some longer shots:

My ocotillo gave me the biggest surprise when it rained. It went from being a gray spiny stick to being covered with lush, bright green leaves! (In the spring it gets red flowers on the top of the branches.)

Check out this link to see what other fabric artists have been working on this past week: off-wall-friday.html

Have a colorful day