In July, 2009, I took a fun class from Rose Hughes on making landscape quilts. I say the class was fun, but the technique was definitely not something I enjoyed, unfortunately. I’m glad I tried it, but I won’t be doing it again, as far as I can tell. 
Anyway, I designed my quilt and even had all of the major construction finished at that time. However, I was supposed to use beads and embroidery to suggest plant life, and I was also supposed to use wool roving to make blossoms on the saguaro cactus I made as a memento of the very long time I lived in Arizona. I’m not much on embellishing, though, so my partially-completed quilt sat on the ironing board in my sewing room until yesterday.
With the encouragement of my quilting buddy, I decided to finish the quilting on the piece and forget the embellishing. I added a facing instead of binding, and now it’s all finished. Finished, as they say, is good. 
This is titled “Lonely Saguaro” both because it’s all alone in its setting and because it’s so unlikely to be the start of a series of landscapes.
