Glorious Nine-Patch and Temperature Quilt

Today I got my Seasonal Temperature Quilt  caught up.  It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the days seem to go by.  I thought I had just updated it 3 days ago, but I was ten days behind.  I call it seasonal as I started with the first day of Winter on Dec 21.  Winter months are silver/grey, Spring is green and summer is yellow. The large white areas name the season. the White small strips in the winter months indicate when the low temp was 25 degrees or less - only six days in Winter dropped below 26 degrees.   

This is a partial row that I have started, beginning July 20.  Notice the first strip on the left - I call this my fire fabric, and it us used whenever the high temperature is 95 degrees or higher.  Only one day this summer so far that has happened, and then it was exactly 95 degrees.  I use Weather.com to get the highs and lows and it sure does not agree with my car.  I had to take my husband to the doctor on July 20 and had to sit in the car to wait for him. They would not let me come in to go with him - not even to the waiting area.  So I found a shade tree to park under and I had brought my book to read, rolled the windows down and made it ok.  My car temp read 97 degrees when we left the house.  Once he was done and we were on our way home, the car temp display ran got up to 103 decrees and stayed around 99 - 100 all the way home.  Once back near the house it was back at 97.  According to Weather .com, our high for the day was the 95 degrees.

This is my most recent baby quilt for my church ladies expecting babies.  This will go to a mom who already had two cute boys, but is expecting her first girl.  I thought she deserved something pretty and sweet and I always love scalloped borders on baby quilts for girls.

I did a simple cross hatch quilting with variegated thread.Did a little pattern just for interest.  The backing is a soft pink and the floral binding is the same used in the quilt top.