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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
It seems that we may have skipped spring altogether. The calendar say's it's still winter but we have been having summer temperatures. We've started work in the garden and today we planted four rows of peas! Yes, we are enjoying a bit of green today.
Someone really enjoys using the shovel - and it's NOT me!
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Shirley!
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With the sudden arrival of spring weather this week work in the sewing room has slowed to a crawl. I have making a little progress on quilting this quilt. I'm stitching a serpentine line through the scrappy parts and haven't quite decided what to do in the background yet. I'll probably have it figured out by the time I finish the other part of the quilting.
We have been out enjoying the warm weather a bit though.
We even saw some bare feet this week!
Yay! I love the warm sunny weather - even when it slows the sewing progress to a snail's pace.
We plan to get some peas planted in the garden this weekend.
What about you? What are your weekend plans?
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Shockingly fast delivery from Oakshott Fabrics.
After seeing this quilt,
and this post I was hypnotized.
Rossie and I decided to split a ColorBox.
They are so pretty in their special box that I almost don't want to disturb them.
And if that's not enough fabric fun for you:
I had a ball at Brenda's (Pink Castle Fabrics) Monday helping her cut preorders for Flea Market Fancy. She had been busy all weekend and her yard was full of of empty bolts and boxes for the recycle pick up. I behaved myself and only came home with some Moda Cross Weaves.
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1968 - It was a Red Sweater Day.
We had a picnic on the blue ridge parkway. I had been crying because I had fallen climbing up on the rock. (I found a picture of that too.)
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I'm working on finishing an older scrap project. Cleaning up the slow way can take a very long time!
I also cleaned and straightened the fabric cabinet today. I can't quite get all the fabric to fit. Hmmmm. I guess I'll have to do some more sewing!
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When local artist Lynn Krawczyk asked if I wanted to make a little quilt from her new fabrics on spoon flower I practically jumped out of my seat. I have been a fan of Lynn's work since I first saw some of her pieces about two years ago.
She sent a lovely selection of prints. First I tried a scaled up quilt block but that didn't have enough interaction between the fabrics.Then I tried something similar to the Zinnias quilt but that didn't really give the look I wanted either.
Then I saw these hexies on my sewing table and thought I'd try some paper piecing with Lynn's fabrics. I was thrilled with the look of this and kept going.
When basting the edges to the back of the paper pieces I only stitched through the fabric instead of all the way through both layers of fabric and the paper. This was easier on my hands and also made it easier to remove the paper after the were stitched together and I had spray starched the back.
I wanted a "clean" edge with no extra binding fabric for this quilt. After hand basting in preparation for hand quilting I trimmed the batting even with the turned edge of the front of the quilt. Then I folded the backing over the batting and hand stitched the front to the back giving a crisp finished edge.
I don't know the exact size of the hexagons. I made my own template by tracing a circle and folding it into sixths like you would to cut out a paper snowflake. I trimmed the rounded edge straight from corner to corner to get the hexagon template.
The finished quilt is 20 by 17.25 inches. It is hand quilted with perle cotton thread.
Here's the back.
Aren't these fabrics great?
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Yesterday I made the February Bee FF blocks. Sarah requested liberated wedding ring blocks.
She wanted green, blue/turquoise, and black and white on an aqua background. I have a bunch of black and white scraps that have been given to me by various friends. It was nice to get them out and use some of them. I love the musical notes and news print. Did you see? "Fifi's Gone Sniffing!"
These were fun and went together really quickly.
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Spring 1967- Me and my oldest sister. We used to go to the Va. Tech greenhouses and flower beds for photo shoots when we were little. I think that is where this was taken.
Or maybe this was at my grandparents - my grandfather had a big iris bed.
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